The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about cervical cancer screening at home and more.

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the benefits of AI in health care.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season often starts in the fall and peaks in winter. RSV vaccines are available to help reduce risk for severe illness. In many parts of the country, the fall season ...

Therapeutic inertia can affect treatment intensification and get in the way of effective medication treatment patients who are on medication, or just starting medication, for uncontrolled high blood ...

New graphic health warnings that would cover the top 50% of the front and back of cigarette packages and at least 20% of the area at the top of cigarette ads are essential to communicating to ...

What are top stressors for doctors? How common is physician burnout? What are the most stressful medical specialties? Is administrative burden in health care fixable? Christine Sinsky, MD, a general ...

Fueled by a highly transmissible subvariant of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, known as BA.5, SARS-CoV-2 infections are on the rise again. Even situations that have seemed to carry a relatively low risk ...

Payers erect roadblocks allegedly designed to save money for the health system and protect their resources, but when patients and their doctors face care delays—or when they give up and abandon ...

Medical school is the first step in a career in medicine. It’s also a key stage in a journey toward determining one’s financial picture for the next decade-plus. How much you will pay in medical ...