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The American Medical Association, with headquarters at 515 N. State St. in Chicago, is the nation's largest doctor group. Founded in 1847, the AMA is a trade association that advocates on behalf of physicians. In June of each year, the group meets in Chicago for its annual policy meeting, where doctors' recent debates have put the group on record on a variety of issues. At the AMA, consensus and a focused agenda have become more important as the organization tries to move beyond incidents that hurt membership. One major problem was an embarrassing marketing deal with Sunbeam Corp. in the late 1990s. That deal, in which Sunbeam would have paid the AMA to endorse its products, ended with the A...
The American Medical Association, with headquarters at 515 N. State St. in Chicago, is the nation's largest doctor group. Founded in 1847, the AMA is a trade association that advocates on behalf of physicians. In June of each year, the group meets in Chicago for its annual policy meeting, where doctors' recent debates have put the group on record on a variety of issues. At the AMA, consensus and a focused agenda have become more important as the organization tries to move beyond incidents that hurt membership. One major problem was an embarrassing marketing deal with Sunbeam Corp. in the late 1990s. That deal, in which Sunbeam would have paid the AMA to endorse its products, ended with the AMA paying $10 million to get out. Although overall membership is still down slightly to nearly 240,000, the group says membership has stabilized somewhat. The group credits a re-allocation of its $20 million marketing budget in 2005 to showcase the organization as being in touch with everyday physicians and their patients. In recent years, the AMA has put considerable effort behind stopping attempts to cut Medicare payments to doctors.
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Study: Donating blood may reduce men's health risks
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterENCINITAS, Calif. - A new study shows men who donate blood dramatically reduce their risk of heart attack and stroke. "I started giving blood in high school and I've been pretty consistent after that," blood donor Jason Janecek said. "I try to give...Tags: Liver Cancer, Men's Health, Medical Research, Charity, Health
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Ad attacks Barack Obama health care, tax, debt promises
EDITOR'S NOTE — An occasional look at the claims in political advertising. TITLE: Obama's Promise LENGTH: 60 seconds AIRING: Network affiliates in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and...Tags: Finance, Public Finance, Elections, Republican Party, Health
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com
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Osceola County offers workers free surgeries — overseas
Patients who want to have their surgery for free, with a little foreign vacation on the side, may soon have that choice. Medical tourism, a concept that alarms some consumers and doctors alike, is slowly gaining national momentum, and it will soon be an...Tags: Back Surgery, Health and Safety at Work, Heart Attack, Knee Replacement, Companies and Corporations
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Florida medical board ranks 42nd in U.S. for disciplining doctors
For the fourth year in a row, Florida ranked in the bottom 10 U.S. states for its record of punishing doctors who violate state standards, according to an annual survey by the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen. But for the first time in years, the...
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Open for business — sort of
There are an estimated 300,000 people who work in the Loop each weekday. This Friday and the following Monday, a good number of them will be staying home. Citing concerns over logistics and security, some downtown businesses will close their doors,...
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New study says number of drug addicted babies rising
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — A new study released yesterday by the American Medical Association found that the number of drug addicted newborns almost tripled from 2000 to 2009. The study found that the number of incidents rose nationally from 1.2 babies out of 1,... -
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Mad cow disease The detection of a cow infected with mad cow disease in California shows that current regulation of animal feed in the U.S. is severely lacking and must be tightened. The Food and Drug Administration has refused for almost 10 years to...Tags: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Migraine, Prescription Drugs, Chicago Transit Authority, Pharmaceuticals
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Access to medicine
The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to make more prescription-only drugs available without a prescription. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, testified at a hearing in March that medicine needs to...Tags: Chemicals, Health Organizations, Migraine, Pharmaceuticals, Health
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Not enough doctors
The Supreme Court's ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expected in June, will determine the future for countless Americans. Health care reform debates have elevated the plight of millions of uninsured Americans to the national...
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200-pound Ohio boy loses weight, goes back home to mother's care
Ohio social workers sparked a national controversy last fall when they placed an 8-year-old boy weighing more than 200 pounds in foster care until he slimmed down. The boy was returned to his mother in March after losing weight, and on Thursday, the...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hospitals and Clinics, NAACP, Los Angeles Times, Bristol Palin
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Wasn't Jesus an idealist?
One of the greatest challenges as a writer who seeks to define what it means to be "Christian," is to persuade readers that we must take Christ's teaching seriously, or get hurt! Does it make any difference -- really, if one practices Christian...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, General Practitioners
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