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Modern Healthcare Illustration / Getty Images The American Medical Association on Tuesday said it oppose the use of "excited delirium syndrome" as a clinical diagnosis, contending the term too often inappropriately justifies excessive police force and the forced sedation of individuals for no legitimate medical reason during encounters with law enforcement. The new policy adopted this week during the AMAs special meeting of its house of delegates opposes using "excited delirium" as the sole bas...

The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is holding its annual policymaking meeting amid backlash over its most ambitious plan ever — to help dismantle centuries-old racism and bias in all realms of the medical establishment.

The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is holding its annual policymaking meeting amid backlash over its most ambitious plan ever — to help dismantle centuries-old racism and bias in all realms of the medical establishment.

The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is holding its annual...

A recent ‘controversy’ reveals how politically correct ideology is harming health care. Four hundred years ago, Italian astronomer Galileo was persecuted for advancing Copernicus’s theory that the earth and other planets rotate around the sun. This heliocentric theory violated the prevailing belief dating back to Aristotle and engrained in Christian theology that the sun and planets rotate around a stationary earth. Galileo was tried for heresy and placed under house arrest for the remain...

Qinxuan Pan, accused of gunning down Yale University graduate student and U.S. Army veteran Kevin Jiang earlier this year, is expected to ask a judge in Connecticut to reduce his $20 million bail in a hearing scheduled for next month.

The move was seen as a major victory for physicians of color, and their white allies, who rose in protest against the influential journal.

Twin sisters Brittani James and Brandi Jackson are two-thirds of a civil rights organization spearheading the charge to eradicate the medical field of

Panel sheds light on vaccine safety Physicians urged to reach out to hesitant patients SHERRY SLATER | The Journal Gazette The American Medical Association on Wednesday hosted a webinar to equip doctors nationwide with answers to patients questions about vaccine safety and effectiveness. Half of U.S. adults have received the coronavirus vaccine as of this week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But as the pace of vaccinations has slowed, health care providers are shar...

American Medical Association Releases Anti-Racist Plan For Itself And Medical Profession The nation’s largest physicians organization is pledging to help create more equity in the healthcare field. Published 13 hours ago Written by Madison J. Gray The American Medical Association has released a new plan to end institutionalized racism within the organization and within the U.S. medical field in general. The strategy, outlined in an 86-page document, points out health inequities th...