Apr 28, 2022 ·
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AMA Advocacy Insights webinar series: Drug overdose epidemic

Watch the latest AMA Advocacy Insights webinar and download slides on the nation’s drug overdose epidemic—helping children and families, patients with pain.

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Events
Advocacy Insights Webinar Series
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Access to treatment is key in addressing drug-overdose epidemic

Learn what’s driving inequities in the drug-overdose epidemic and why giving patients proven treatments is more effective than incarceration.

Behavioral Health
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra
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Becerra sees need to end Medicare physician pay “cliffs”

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra says he doesn’t want health professionals to leave medicine based on pay uncertainties. Learn more.

Medicare & Medicaid
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3 Min Read

Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of April 11, 2022

In the news: Uranium in U.S. waterways, spike in teen overdose deaths, COVID-19 public health emergency extended and more.

Publications & Newsletters
Computer screen reflected in a person's glasses
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Pandemic’s impact on patients’ eye health comes into focus

Ophthalmologist David Aizuss, MD, explains how the pandemic has contributed to dry eye disease and other problems. Here’s what doctors should know.

Infectious Diseases
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10 Min Read

AMA COVID-19 Guides for health care professionals

AMA has compiled COVID-19 guides to assist physicians, residents, med students, private practices, health systems and other health care professionals manage the pandemic.

Infectious Diseases
Kristen Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS
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5 Min Read

Cardiovascular disease epidemiologist named JAMA’s new top editor

A “first-rate physician-scientist,” Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS, of UCSF School of Medicine will helm JAMA Network starting in July.

Leadership
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AMA names new editor-in-chief of JAMA and JAMA Network™

The AMA announced the hiring of Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.S., as the next editor-in-chief of JAMA and JAMA Network™.

Press Releases
Person using oximeter
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COVID-19 brings safety boost with rise of remote patient monitoring

More research shows the potential of remote patient monitoring and outlines five barriers health systems must overcome. Learn more with the AMA.

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