In early 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, which mandated that government contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees ...

For the sake of transgender students’ physical and mental health, the AMA and other medical societies are urging a federal appeals court to uphold an Oregon school district’s policy allowing ...

What’s the news: The AMA and 23 other medical organizations declared in a letter to President Donald Trump that “there is no single step that will do more for the health of all Americans than ...

For the first time since 2011, the physician burnout rate has dropped below 50 percent among doctors in the U.S., according to a new triennial study. However, while the decrease in the physician ...

The prevalence of physician burnout has been well documented, and many organizations initially offer resilience training to improve physician well-being. However, while maintaining and strengthening ...

The trend toward sharply higher levels of hospital market concentration around the nation has not benefited patients, who experience higher costs and poorer health outcomes in highly concentrated ...

Unfortunately, doctors know all too well about physician burnout and its impact on medicine. With most American physicians experiencing some sign of burnout, it is a condition that affects all ...

AMA CXO Todd Unger discusses the new omicron variant and what it means for the months ahead with good friend of the show, Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor ...

In most medical practices, patients are sent to the lab at the end of their visits for tests the physician ordered. The next day, when the laboratory test results are received, the care team must ...

What’s the news: The AMA is supporting S. 4375, the “Telehealth Modernization Act of 2020,” which would permanently remove many of the regulatory restrictions on telehealth that were temporarily ...

The general internal medicine division at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has a burnout rate of 13 percent, which is significantly lower than the rate in other divisions. The secret ...

A New York law requiring all of the state’s children to be vaccinated before entering school—except those who qualify for a medical exemption—protects the public’s health and does not prevent anyone ...