American Medical Association

Nutrition in a Second-Rate Hen House

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.11.2012

This week, Wal-Mart announced the release of its home-grown, front-of-pack nutrition guidance system. Can we possibly be that gullible? If so, we probably all deserve to be eating whatever the big companies selling food tell us we should.

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Climate Change Must Be Addressed Now

Ted Kaufman | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Climate Change, Congress Climate Change, Climate Change Legislation, National Academy of Sciences, American Medical Association, NASA Climate Change, United Nations Climate Change, American Chemical Society, Green News

We are beginning a new year, and the silence in Congress is still deafening. Will there ever be a debate about what should be done to deal with climate change?

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Feds Should Reclassify Marijuana To Allow Medical Use, Governors Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Marijuana Classification, Video, Lincoln Chafee, Medical Pot, Schedule I, Drug Enforcement Administration, Schedule II, Medical Marijuana, Chris Gregoire, American Medical Association, Marijuana Legalization, Pot Legalization, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Govs. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I) and Chris Gregoire (D-Wash.) on Wednesday called on the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marij...

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The Useless Supercommittee

Wendell Potter | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Ipab, Congress, Death Panels, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Supercommittee, American Medical Association, Medicare, K Street, Health Care, American Hospital Association, Super Committee Deadline, Supercommittee Health Care, Super Committee Health Care, Super Committee Deadline Deficit, Politics News

One of the reasons why Congress has been largely unable to make the American health care system more efficient and equitable is because of the stranglehold lobbyists for special interests have on the institution.

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Hillary Clinton Is Right About HIV/AIDS: Time To Enact A Global Health Service Corps

Anand Reddi | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, AIDS-Free Generation, Pepfar, Obama Global Health Initiative, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Institute of Medicine, American Medical Association, Hillary Clinton, HIV/AIDS Africa, Global Health Service Corp, Global Health Initiative, Impact News

Some may argue that enacting the Global Health Service Corps, especially in the era of U.S. government austerity measures, is not prudent.

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Will Vitamins Kill You More Than Drugs?

Dr. Walter Crinnion | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: American Medical Association, Vitamins, Supplements, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living Body, Personal Health, Vitamin Study, Vitamin Studies, Vitamins vs. Pharmaceuticals, Vitamins vs. Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Healthy Living News

While the AMA publications and spokespeople are quick with the press releases saying that nutritional supplements are not only useless, but dangerous, the scientific backing for those statements is lacking.

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Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: What's The Difference?

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Corn Sugar, American Medical Association, Corn Syrup Lawsuit, Corn Industry, Corn Refiners Association, Sugar Industry, Sugar, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The setting sun splashes warm hues across a ripening cornfield as a man and his daughter wander through rows of towering plants. ...

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Turning 'Little Princesses' Into Empowered Women, With The Help Of Men

Lori Day | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Women, Wives, Thylane Loubry Blondeau, Gender Stereotypes, Mental Health, Corporate Responsibility, Comics, Peggy Orenstein, Daughters, Summer's Eve, Men, Eating Disorders, Boys, Media, Parenting, Girls, Sexualization, Stephen Colbert, Impact News, Peggy Drexler, Rolling Stone Magazine, Marketing, American Medical Association, Good Men Project, Fathers, Activism, Impact News

This article has been co-written with Michele Sinisgalli-Yulo of Princess Free Zone. It's hard to admit it, but we need you. We need you to join the ...

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Lobbying in American Politics

Paul Heroux | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: General Electric, Congress, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Exxon Mobil, American Medical Association, Democrats, Nra, Sierra Club, Advocacy, Lobbyist, Republicans, Politics News

When did a politician's campaign cash reserves start to be called a "war chest?" It gives you a sense of what kind of attitude goes into how that money is being used.

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Is Photoshop Destroying America's Body Image?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Photoshop, Body Image, Photoshop Body Image, Advertising, Beauty and Skin, Unrealistic Bodies, Youth Health, American Medical Association, Effects of Photoshop, Self-Image, Healthy Living News

Photoshopping and airbrushing, many believe, are now an inherent part of the beauty industry, as are makeup, lighting and styling. They believe photography is a creative art, a freedom not to be denied for any reason ...

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Photoshop Isn't Evil. There, I Said It.

Elizabeth Perle | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Photoshop, Glee, Ama, Jessica Simpson, Eating Disorders, American Medical Association, Gq Magazine, Bossypants, Tina Fey, Women News

What happens when you take Photoshop out of the equation? We're left with models and performers who are still under an enormous amount of pressure to go to enormous lengths to make their bodies look a certain way.

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Denver Psychiatrist Named President-Elect of AMA

The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Ama, Denver News, Denver Health, American Medical Association, Dr. Jeremy A. Lazarus, Jeremy A. Lazarus, American Medical Association President, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Denver News

A Denver private practitioner of psychiatry has been named the new president-elect of the American Medical Association today. Jeremy A. Lazarus, M.D.,...

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Healthcare Reform: Solving the Medical Student Debt Crisis Through Human Capital Contracts

Anand Reddi | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Anand Reddi, University of Colorado School of Medicine, American Medical Association, Medical School, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Spending, Health Care, Association of American Medical Colleges, Primary Care, The New York Times Op-Ed, The New York Times, Politics News

Despite the enactment of healthcare reform by the United States Congress in 2010, organized medicine has yet to successfully tackle the issue of medical student debt.

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Doctors Are Abandoning The GOP

New York Times | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Doctors Politics, GOP Medicare, Doctors Democratic Party, Gop Medicare Cuts, Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Doctors, Medicare, Doctors Republican Party, Health Care, Politics News

Doctors were once overwhelmingly male and usually owned their own practices. They generally favored lower taxes and regularly fought lawyers to restri...

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McDonald's Stockholders Reject Obesity Proposal, Defends Ronald

Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Jim Skinner, Ronald Mcdonalds, Mcdonalds Fat, American Medical Association, Mcdonalds Criticism, Stockholders, McDonalds Obesity, Mcdonalds, Business News

OAK BROOK, Illinois (Debra Sherman) - McDonald's Corp spurned calls to assess the impact of its food on childhood obesity, and said its trademark...

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A Doctor Who Has Journeyed Through Three Countries and Three Healthcare Systems Speaks Candidly About Ours

Pearl Korn | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Time Magazine, Veterans Administration, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Patients, Wall Street Journal, Ukraine, Canada, The Economist, Primary Care, Affordable Care Act, American Medical Association, Doctors, Medicare, Medicaid, Soviet Union, Politics News

There is little time in an office visit to experience a true doctor/patient relationship these days, for time is money as insurers squeeze every nickel they can out of a billing. This is not true in Dr. Rogova's office, however.

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Politics Ignoring Science: Federal Agency Recognizes Therapeutic Benefit of Medical Marijuana While 9-Year-Old Petition to Reclassify the Plant Gathers Dust

Steph Sherer | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cannabis, National Cancer Institute, Dea, Medical Marijuana, Marinol, American Medical Association, Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Politics News

It's time for the Obama Administration to recognize the science, act with integrity, and reschedule cannabis.

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Some Doctors Question Medicare Program in Health Law

Todd Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Israel, American Medical Association, Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Accountable Care Organizations, Mayo Clinic, New York News

The health care overhaul is being hit with a new set of arguments, this time by doctors who suggest that a lnew Medicare program creates a potential threat to their autonomy and to patient care.

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The Ghosts Of Health Care Deals Past

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ahip Health Care, Drug Industry, PhRMA Lobby, Health Care Deals, Obama Health Care, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Obamacare, Obama Drug Industry, Phrma, Billy Tauzin, Obama Billy Tauzin, Ahip, Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Health Care, Healthcare, American Hospital Association, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The deals that the White House cut with major industries during the health care debate are threatening to come back to haunt the adminis...

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The Marketing Genius of Erectile Dysfunction

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011

We must tip our hats to the creative and strategic geniuses among us who took one of the most embarrassing maladies literally known to man and made it sexy.

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Americans Wish Limbaugh Would Take a Vacation to Spain, Mars

Rip Empson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama, Intolerance, Kanye West, Rush Limbaugh, Mel Gibson, Shark Week, Obama Vacation, Racism, American Medical Association, Media, Media News, Spain, Comedy News

First Lady Michelle Obama has been taking some heat lately for embarking on an expensive vacation to Spain, the Journal of Insignificant Non-Issues re...

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First, Do No Harm

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Medical Association House of Delegates, American Medical News, BJC Healthcare, Tufts University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Vaccine, American Medical Association, Michelle Perez, Infectious Disease Society of America, Influenza, Center for Disease Control, World News

This blog entry is authored by Michelle Perez, one of Orin Levine's graduate students at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This pos...

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Doctors Condemn Shackling Mothers in Labor and Delivery

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prisons, American Medical Association, Correctional Facilities, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Womens-Prisons, Giving Birth, Mothers, Shackling, Impact News

This week, the American Medical Association called for an end to one of the most draconian practices in the U.S.: the shackling of incarcerated mothers during labor, delivery and post delivery.

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Flu Drugs Saved Many Pregnant Swine Flu Victims

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Global Epidemic, Pregnant Women, Health, Coma, Swine Flu, Asthma, Women's Health, Pregnancy, American Medical Association, Flue Medicine, Immune System, Tamiflu, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — Quick treatment with flu medicine saved the lives of many pregnant women who were stricken by swine flu last year, according to the mo...

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Get With the Diagnosis: Doctors Should Rally Around Health Reform

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Doctors, Healthcare Reform, Medicine, Partisanship, Health Care, Healthy Living News

It's time that doctors got with the diagnosis. If medicine presents the ultimate sacrifice, and doctors make a profession out of putting others first, it's time we step up and give it to them.

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