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AMA urges flu vaccine everyone older than six months, pregnant women

Majority of pregnant women currently not vaccinated against flu and whooping cough.

Press Releases
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Ban on standard D&E abortion procedure is unsafe, unwarranted

A physician-backed amicus brief details why reinstating a Kentucky mandate designed to end a safe and effective abortion procedure is a bad idea.

Judicial Advocacy
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More new moms are dying in U.S. Here’s how to arrest the trend.

U.S. maternal death rates are rising. The AMA’s president tells Congress about concrete actions that can change course for the better.

Population Health
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Sept. 20, 2019: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn more about AMA's testimony for the appeals of Title X gag rule and involvement in a lawsuit that would force physicians to mislead patients.

Advocacy Update
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Court blocks law that would force physicians to mislead patients

A federal district court sides with the AMA and issues a preliminary injunction to block a state law that would undermine open, honest patient-physician conversations.

Judicial Advocacy
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9 female physicians who raise their voices for women’s health

Learn more about AMA members who are moving medicine by using their platforms as female physician leaders to be powerful advocates for women’s health.

Leadership
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Sept. 6, 2019: National Advocacy Update

Marijuana use during pregnancy and adolescence, LGBTQ protections and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Sept. 6, 2019: State Advocacy Update

NY bills to increase access to MAT, advocating for pregnant opioid patients, and more in the latest of AMA's state advocacy updates.

Advocacy Update
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AMA applauds Surgeon General’s advisory on cannabis

AMA commends Surgeon General’s advisory on harmful health effects of cannabis use by pregnant women and youth, and commitment to furthering research on cannabis.

Press Releases