The American Medical Association, or the AMA, the largest organization of doctors in the U.S., has deemed the medical use of body mass index, or BMI, 'racist,' due to its disregard of a person's ...

Just six months before becoming president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Bobby Mukkamala underwent brain surgery to ...

The letter, signed by 79 medical societies, expresses concern over recent federal immunization review policies and asks that ...

A new policy from the American Medical Association emphasized that doctors and insurance companies should focus less on BMI measurements. The policy recognizes that BMI was designed to ...

The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates – which includes 600-plus members from every medical specialty – released a statement last week that describes three tiers of racism ...

ONE hundred and sixteen years have passed since May 5, 1847, when a handful of physicians attended the live birth of the American Medical Association. In this interim of time, the A.M.A. has achiev ...

The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) has rebuffed an effort to change the organization’s current stance in opposition to physician-assisted suicide, a development ...

The American Medical Association’s complaint, filed Thursday in an Illinois district court, accuses MultiPlan of colluding with major health insurers to set artificially low reimbursement rates ...

American Medical Association says BMI is racially biased 01:20. BOSTON - When you go to your doctor's office, chances are they will calculate your BMI but a prominent medical organization says the ...

A leading US medical organization is urging doctors to ditch body mass index (BMI) as the primary measurement for a healthy bodyweight, citing its 'racist' roots. The American Medical Association ...

The four largest pharmacy benefit managers in the U.S. control 70% of the national market, and most regional PBM markets are highly concentrated, according to new data from the American Medical ...

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., that represents and advises medical schools.