Lawsuit: Trump Family-Planning Rule ‘Politicizes’ Medicine

DAVID CRARY / The Associated Press Mar 5, 2019 The AMA and Planned Parenthood oppose a rule barring family planning clinics funded by Title X from making abortion referrals. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Frustrated AMA Adopts Sweeping Proposals to Cut Gun Violence

LINDSEY TANNER / The Associated Press Jun 12, 2018 The American Medical Association says gun violence is as menacing as a lethal infectious disease. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Doctors Are Turning Left

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2011 While medical doctors are a historically conservative bunch, many physicians are beginning to lean left as they abandon the high costs and responsibilities associated with running private practices to take salaried jobs in hospitals, doctors' advocates say. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Heat’ From Christian Law Firm, FCC Behind ABC’s Lambert Shut-Out

Staff / Truthdig Dec 4, 2009 Janet Jackson escaped unscathed this time, but it seems that the FCC may have gotten on ABC's case for airing "American Idol" alum Adam Lambert's public displays of homoeroticism during his American Music Awards performance last month A law firm associated with the late Rev Jerry Falwell (continued). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jun 18, 2009 The real question is not what the AMA will support or whether the attitudes of the AMA have changed, but why anyone would still heed its policy prescriptions. Very few national organizations have been so wrong for so long about the matters most salient to their own members. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling’

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Jun 18, 2009 At the meeting of the American Medical Association, Barack Obama tackled the model "that has taken the pursuit of medicine from a profession -- a calling -- to a business." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

AMA Lines Up Against Public Health Insurance Plan

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2009 The health care debate takes another turn as the American Medical Association says it will oppose implementation of a government-sponsored medical insurance plan. The AMA's justification for selling out to private insurance companies? A public insurance plan competing with private firms would limit patient choices. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AMA Apologizes for Once Excluding Blacks

Staff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2008 The American Medical Association has finally apologized for once excluding black doctors from membership. The discriminatory policies ended in the 1960s, but it has taken almost 50 years for the group to formally apologize for its institutional racism. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )