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'We Need It Now': AMA Delegates Urge Public Health System Funding, Support
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- The public health infrastructure in this country needs more support and funding from the federal government, American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates members declared. "The funding we received during... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 15, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

AMA Opposes Legacy Preferences in Med School Applications
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Delegates who urged the American Medical Association (AMA) to take a firmer stance against medical schools using legacy preferences in their admissions process succeeded during the annual House of Delegates meeting... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 15, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

US doctors' group adopts new policy on healthy weight assessment
The American Medical Association (AMA) on Wednesday said it will advise doctors to pay less attention to body mass index (BMI) in determining if a patient is at a healthy weight, saying the measure does not predict disease risk equally well across racial and ethnic groups.#ama #bmi (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New AMA President Urges More Action on Substance Use Disorder, Mental Illness
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association (AMA) must continue the fight against substance use disorder, firearm violence, and other problems affecting patients and those who care for them, Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, said here... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - June 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Few Rehab Centers for Teens Offer Recommended Medicine
Only 1 in 4 residential treatment centers for teens offers a recommended medicine for opioid addiction, according to a study that exposes an important gap in care. Posing as an aunt or uncle seeking help for a fictitious 16-year-old who survived a fentanyl overdose, researchers called U.S. rehabs and asked if they offered the treatment medication buprenorphine. Of 160 facilities with care for teens, just 39 provided buprenorphine, also known by the brand name Suboxone. One hundred said they didn’t and 21 said they didn’t know. “As somebody who’s tried to promote the use of evidence-based treatments ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carla K. Johnson/AP Tags: Uncategorized Addiction healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news

AMA Delegates Make Short Work of Proposals on Abortion
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- In prior years, abortion discussions at the American Medical Association (AMA) annual meeting of its House of Delegates would last for a long time, with dozens of people lining up behind microphones to have their... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

AMA Declares Payment Reform an 'Urgent' Priority
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- During focused committee discussions, some delegates pushed back on the American Medical Association's (AMA) plan to improve physician pay, arguing that the association's current efforts are not enough. Speaking... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

AMA Wrestles With Part B Drug Costs, Wheelchair Ramps, and Dementia Care
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates discussed whether they should push the federal government to normalize the widely varying prices of physician-administered Part B drugs, pay for wheelchair... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Airlines Need to Let Wheelchair Users Use Them on Planes, AMA Members Say
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Airlines need to do more to help patients in wheelchairs use them on the plane, members of the American Medical Association's (AMA) House of Delegates said here Sunday, but they were divided on how to make that happen... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

AMA Urged to Do More to Safeguard Adolescent Gender-Affirming Care
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- How should the American Medical Association (AMA) respond to the rapidly increasing number of state prohibitions on gender-affirming care for adolescents? Delegates considered the topic during committee discussions... (Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology)
Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology - June 11, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

States Must Stop Criminalizing Medicine, AMA Delegates Say
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- The criminalization of medicine is taking its toll on physicians -- and not just those who perform abortions, members of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates said here Saturday during the AMA... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - June 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Outgoing AMA President Calls for Unity in the Relay That Is Medicine
(MedPage Today) -- Jack Resneck Jr., MD, conveyed a message of hope, progress, and unity in his final speech as American Medical Association (AMA) president, but without ignoring "very real" threats to the profession. During the AMA House of Delegates... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - June 11, 2023 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news

ASCO: Germline Testing Underused in Cancer Patients
TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 -- Few patients diagnosed with cancer between 2013 and 2019 in California and Georgia underwent germline testing, according to a study published online June 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 6, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Texas bans gender-affirming care for minors after Gov. Abbott signs bill
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has become the most populous state to ban gender-affirming care for minors after Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation on Friday. Texas joined at least 18 other states that have enacted similar bans. Every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association,…#austin #gregabbott #legislature #abbott #republicans #democrats #transgender #texashouse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Texas Gov. Abbott signs bill banning gender-affirming care for minors
Texas has become the most populous state to ban gender-affirming care for minors after Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation on Friday. Texas joined at least 18 other states that have enacted similar bans. Every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, has opposed the…#gregabbott #legislature #abbott #republicans #democrats #transgender #texashouse (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news