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4 Min Read

April 5, 2018: Advocacy spotlight on Physicians ask HHS to withdraw proposed rule on conscience rights in health care

Physicians ask HHS to withdraw proposed rule on conscience rights in health care. Read AMA's response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

Advocacy Update
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March 22, 2018: Judicial Advocacy Update

Find out how the AMA advocates for pregnant women and their right to informed consent about their options in NIFLA v. Becerra.

Advocacy Update
Supreme Court Building
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Pregnant women deserve to get the whole truth on their options

Pregnancy clinics’ misleading messages create compelling need to protect patients’ right to accurate medical information, the AMA argues in a brief filed with Supreme Court.

Judicial Advocacy
Pregnant woman being attended to by midwife.
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Questions abound on global inequities in reproductive health care

The ethical, social and cultural stakes of reproductive health care as a global clinical and educational enterprise present critical areas of inquiry.

Ethics
Physicians on panel listen to speaker.
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Physicians back programs to address maternal mortality, depression

Delegates also support comprehensive care that addresses the specific health needs of children in foster care.

Population Health
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3 Min Read

Aug. 10, 2017: State Advocacy Update

New opioid-related reports focus on mortality data, women, cancer and hospitalizations and more in AMA's latest efforts to advocate for state and local health care.

Advocacy Update
Mary Anne McCaffree, MD
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Women bear greater burden of opioid epidemic

While treatment for opioid-use disorder remains gender blind, the impact and effects of the disease are not.

Behavioral Health
Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH (left) and David Ernesto Munar.
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5 Min Read

Black, gay, female: Multiple identities affect health outcomes

The intersection of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity and class can determine patients’ health and well-being, experts say.

Population Health
HOD Delegate speaks to crowd at meeting.
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AMA backs global health experts in calling infertility a disease

Delegates also support new advice on prenatal vitamin supplementation.

Population Health