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Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE, at 2019 HOD Annual Meeting
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Prison inmates and staff need more health education, training

Poor health outcomes are rampant in U.S. jails and prisons, thanks to subpar hand hygiene, oral health and other factors. AMA also backs giving incarcerated women access to contraception.

Population Health
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AMA adopts new public health policies to improve health of nation

AMA adopts policies supporting plans to end the HIV epidemic, decriminalize HIV status non-disclosure, and access to contraception for incarcerated persons.

Press Releases
Delegates at AMA Annual Meeting
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Physicians support paid parental leave to boost health outcomes

Increases in paid parental leave linked to lower perinatal, neonatal, post-neonatal, infant and child mortality. More employers should step up, the AMA says.

Population Health
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Inequities in maternal mortality must be attacked head-on

The U.S. is one of only three nations where maternal mortality rates are rising, but 60% of these deaths are preventable, AMA president-elect tells Congress.

Population Health
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May 3, 2019: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn more about the AMA's role in rulings for the Title X gag rule and North Dakota's cap on noneconomic damages.

Advocacy Update
A pregnant woman covering her face while a health care worker attends to her
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AMA helped sway Supreme Court to protect pregnant patients’ privacy

An AMA Litigation Center brief helped establish expectant mothers’ rights and set precedent that continues to protect today.

Judicial Advocacy
A page from the AMA Code of Medical Ethics
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Judge says AMA is right: Title X gag rule violates medical ethics 

A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction to block implementation of a new family-planning gag rule, saying it violated medical ethics and would harm public health.  

Ethics
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Federal judge will enjoin family-planning physician gag rule

The AMA is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit to stop a regulation that would interfere with the patient-physician relationship and politicize medical care.

Judicial Advocacy
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Meet the physician battling the government’s Title X gag rule

Family physician Tom Ewing, MD, is the face of the lawsuit fighting a new regulation that limits what doctors can and cannot say to patients about reproductive health care options.

Judicial Advocacy