Nathan Smith Davis was founder of the American Medical Association (AMA), serving twice as that organization's president, and also as founding editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Unlike most nineteenth-century American...

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the professional organization of physicians in the United States. Besides providing a group voice to physicians, it promotes the art and science of medicine and improve public health. To reach this goal, the...

The American Medical Association (AMA) founded 1847, incorporated 1897[1] is the largest association of medical doctors and medical students in the United States. The AMA's mission is to promote the art and science of medicine for the betterment of the...

The meetings of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates are events only doctors and a few federal bureaucrats fully appreciate. Yet decisions made at the AMA House can have profound effects on nearly every American. Though the AMA membership claims fewer than...

Maureen Barlow Pugh, ed. 1998. 9th ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins. [ISBN 0-683-40206-4. 660 pages, including index. $28.95]. As stated in its foreword, the goal of the American Medical Association manual of style is to be clear. This, of course, is...

The American Medical Association on Monday asked the Department of Justice to block UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s proposed purchase of Sierra Health Services Inc., saying the deal would be anticompetitive.The AMA estimates that if the merger was completed, UnitedHealth would control 78 percent of the health...

Pregnant, illegal Hispanic immigrants make up the overwhelming majority of patients seeking emergency health aid for poor immigrants, according to a study of one U.S. state facing a dramatic increase in its immigrant population.But the cost of treating the emergency health care needs of recent...