California has about 37,000 fewer allied health professionals than it needs to properly care for the state's population, according to Warner Thomas, president and CEO of Sutter Health. With more than ...

Imagine a sharp, shooting pain that starts in your lower back and travels like an electric shock down your leg, making it difficult to stand, sit or even walk. This is the reality of sciatica, which ...

What does health care leadership do? Is health care leadership a good career? What are the rural health priorities? What are the challenges in rural health care accessibility? Our guest is the interim ...

Angenette Pickett Call was in the waiting room of her local hospital’s emergency department when she saw a language barrier causing a patient to become distressed and the staff to get agitated because ...

Protecting patients from harm is what physicians are all about. As the physician’s powerful ally in patient care, the AMA works proactively to ensure patients maintain access to affordable, ...

Level up your learning with the AMBOSS Library, an all-in-one digital resource with must-know info for every basic sciences topic and medical specialty. The best part? When you join the AMA, you can ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in radiology? Meet Olaseni Arogundade, MD, a radiology specialist and a featured doctor in the AMA’s “Shadow Me” Specialty Series, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court must take up a case that—if a lower-court ruling is allowed to stand—would set back preventive care in the United States and put millions of Americans’ health at risk, says an ...

As residency-selection criteria evolve in the aftermath of the USMLE Step 1 exam moving to pass-fail scoring, applicants’ research experiences could take on a new level of import. A study published in ...

Catch up with the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The 2024 AMA Interim Meeting concluded Nov. 12. The meeting highlights below would ...

Every year, hundreds of physician leaders and advocates, medical society staff and others from across the country come together in Washington, D.C., for the annual AMA National Advocacy Conference. At ...

Drug shortages continue to be a persistent and complex U.S. public health issue that the AMA has been actively monitoring and responding to developments as needed. Now, though, drug shortages are at ...