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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of June 16, 2025

In the news: New COVID NB.1.8.1 variant spreading in U.S., 1 in 7 adults who smoke likely to have disability, data links cannabis and cardiovascular risk and more. 

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Health care costs & value: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address health care costs and promote value in health care spending.

Medical Service
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Health insurance: Council on Medical Service reports

Download PDFs of council reports that have proposed strategies to address health insurer actions that interfere with the patient/physician relationship and impact the practice of medicine. Such topics include prior authorization, covered benefits, and affordability of health insurance.

Medical Service
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State advocacy

Download an Advocacy Resource Center brochure PDF to learn how the AMA is relentlessly working to advance important state legislative issues that protect patients and physicians.

State Advocacy
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Top news stories from AMA Morning Rounds®: Week of June 2, 2025

In the news: Exercise improves colon cancer survival rates, cannabis health risks rise with age, napping may increase mortality risk and more.

Publications & Newsletters
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These 4 states require ethics CME. The AMA has you covered.

Some states specifically require doctors to obtain CME on medical ethics or professionalism. The AMA has the ethics CME you need—all in one place.

Online CME
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What doctors wish patients knew about e-cigarettes

Also known as vapes, e-cigarettes may seem safe to use, but they are not. Bilal Bangash, MD, of Bayhealth, shares more about vaping. 

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Behavioral Health
What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™
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High court sends e-cigarette case back to 5th Circuit

Supreme Court says 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that the FDA acted in arbitrary and capricious fashion on e-cigarettes. 

Judicial Advocacy
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Cancer in people under 50, overdose deaths down, syphilis testing during pregnancy plus measles news [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about cancer in people under 50, syphilis and more.

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Chronic Diseases
AMA Update Podcast