HIV, STIs, Viral Hepatitis and LTBI Routine Screening Toolkit

The AMA’s toolkit for community health centers and emergency departments guides you from patient intake to linkage to care.

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Routine Screening Toolkit
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Real-world examples bring health systems science home

A textbook chapter advances key health systems science concepts by showing how organizations are working to implement them.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Texas v. Azar Decision

Late on Friday, Dec. 15, a federal district court in Texas struck down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in its entirety, finding that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which zeroed out the tax penalties associated with the ACA’s individual mandate, renders the mandate unconstitutional.

Access to Care
A man reading the back of a pill package in a pharmacy.
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Anticompetitive CVS-Aetna merger should be blocked

The proposed merger of the pharmacy chain and insurance giant would harm competition in nearly 90 percent of Medicare Part D regional markets, the AMA says.

Access to Care
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AMA: CVS-Aetna merger should be blocked

After conducting an exhaustive analysis on the proposed acquisition of Aetna by CVS Heath, the AMA urges regulators to block the merger.

Press Releases
Internist Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD
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2 ways to spark change in minority patients and prevent diabetes

Longtime AMA member Niva Lubin-Johnson, MD, talks about how to manage patients with prediabetes and diabetes to improve health outcomes for minority patients.

Health Equity
Kelly Landeen, MD, otolaryngology resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Kelly Landeen, MD: A military family set the example to serve

AMA member Kelly Landeen, MD, learned the importance of service early in life and acts on it by helping patients through advocacy.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
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New policies adopted on segregation, homelessness

Racial segregation in housing and chronic homelessness are detrimental to health and contribute to disparities.

Health Equity
Moudi Hubeishy, medical student
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Moudi Hubeishy: Helping patients wherever they are

AMA member Moudi Hubeishy is still a medical student, but he is already directing a street-medicine program that delivers medical help to homeless people in Buffalo.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
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June 15, 2018: National Advocacy Update

Amicus brief on ACA coverage, opioid abuse legislation and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update