Track the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 AMA Annual Meeting runs June 10–15. Sunday, June 12 Sunday, June 12 Reference committees continue work today The following reference committees will meet from 8 a.m.–12:30 p.m. CDT: Reference Committee A, which covers medical…
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It’s been more than five years since the West Virginia Legislature approved the use of medical cannabis in West Virginia. Dispensaries are opening across the state, but the industry is still in its infancy. The first medical cannabis dispensary in West Virginia opened in Morgantown in November 2021. Since then, the state has slowly but…
AMA’s Moving Medicine video series amplifies physician voices and highlights developments and achievements throughout medicine. Featured topic and speakers Featured topic and speakers In today’s episode of Moving Medicine, AMA Chief Experience Officer Todd Unger discusses the AMA Medical Student Section’s 50th anniversary and how medical students can get involved and help shape the future…
Ukraine may legalize medical cannabis amid the war with Russia. getty Ukraine’s Health Minister Viktor Liashko announced on June 7 that the government had backed the bill that would legalize medical cannabis amid the war with Russia. “We understand the negative effects of war on mental health. We understand the number of people who will…
Let me note, too, that the freight of words is affected by who’s speaking them. Patients — perhaps as a result of sepsis-associated delirium or certain neurological disorders — may not be in control of their speech; people who are subject to Tourette-syndrome-related coprolalia should not be denied medical treatment because their words make clinicians…
June 06, 2022Area(s) of Interest: Payor Issues and Reimbursement In late May, Cigna announced that it will begin requiring the submission of medical records with all Evaluation and Management (E/M) claims with CPT 99212-99215 and modifier 25 when a minor procedure is billed. Modifier 25 allows separate payment for a significant, separately identifiable E/M service…
Brown University’s Program for Liberal Medical Education accepted just 2% of its applicants in 2021-22. Drexel University’s BA/BS+MD Early Assurance Program accepted only 60 of its more than 2300 applicants last year. Direct Medical Programs (also known as BS/MD, BA/MD, BS/DO and BA/DO) are highly sought after because they can often be a high school…
Years of alarm bells from cybersecurity experts about the vulnerabilities of medical devices are finally being heard by Congress. Senators proposed a new bill this week that would require the Food and Drug Administration to issue cybersecurity guidelines more regularly, and share information about vulnerable devices on its website. The legislation, first reported by CyberScoop,…
It’s a medical nightmare: When the bullets fly not outside on the street, but in the doctor’s office or the hospital itself. This week’s shooting that left four people dead at a Tulsa medical center is an all-too-familiar scenario for health care workers across the nation, who face assaults and even bullets on the job,…
Gun violence is a public health crisis. The American Medical Association (AMA), the most influential medical lobbying group in the US, along with other prominent health organizations, has recognized it as such since 2016, when it officially stated that “uncontrolled ownership and use of firearms, especially handguns, is a serious threat to the public’s health…