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 ...

His findings will go unheeded for decades. The American Medical Association is founded. The association is part of a movement spearheaded by Dr. Nathan Davis to raise the standards of education ...

The American Medical Association was founded a year later, but the rest of Davis's reforms took decades to implement. From 1861 to 1865, the bloody Civil War created an urgent national demand ...

On January 22, 1973, the landmark judgment on the Roe v Wade case was passed by the United States Supreme Court. The judgment ...

Foreign-born practitioners in the health professions are critical to the health-care labour force in many high-income countries. In addition, both immigrant and non-immigrant health professionals have ...

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is a weekly, peer-reviewed, medical journal, published by the American Medical Association. Beginning in July 2011, the editor in chief will ...