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Mashup Score: 0Coming Soon: Oprah Discusses Weight Loss, Obesity, and Ozempic in Her Most Candid Conversation - 2 year(s) ago
play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play “I don’t know that there is another public person whose weight struggles have been exploited as much as mine,” Oprah said recently before a live audience at the Hearst Tower in New York City. The State of Weight, a conversation with Oprah, obesity specialists Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, and Melanie Jay, MD, Sima Sistani (CEO of WeightWatchers), and psychologist Rachel Goldman, PhD, part of Oprah Daily’s “The Life You Want” series, helps reframe the obesity and weight crisis that affects two out of every five adults globally. This conversation, along with an entire curriculum, will launch on Wednesday, September 20, at 4 p.m. EST. The goal of the package is threefold: to bust medical myths and legitimize obesity as a chronic disease that requires intervention like any other condition, rather than a failure of willpower; to discuss the safety and efficacy of the new weight loss drugs, such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, everyone is buzz
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Mashup Score: 2New bipartisan bill a crucial boost to Medicare value-based care - 2 year(s) ago
AMA News Wire New bipartisan bill a crucial boost to Medicare value-based care What’s the news: The AMA is pressing Congress to make key legislative changes that will help facilitate greater physician participation in alternative payment models (APMs), which are intended to accelerate the delivery of high-quality care and generate savings for the Medicare program. Now a bipartisan group of legislators has introduced H.R. 5013, the Value in Health Care Act. The AMA applauded the bill’s introduction by Reps. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., and Kim Schrier, MD, D-Wash. Speak up for Medicare reform The need for Medicare physician payment reform has never been greater. The AMA shows how the current system is unsustainable—and how you can urge Congress to support solutions. Learn More “The movement toward value-based care—designing payment models to support quality and coordination of patient care rather
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We are pressing Congress to make key legislative changes that will help facilitate greater physician participation in APMs. This has been a priority item for the @amermedicalassn in part of its strategy to reform #Medicare reimbursements for physicians. https://t.co/YIYGjEx82s
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Mashup Score: 0Protecting reproductive health care means protecting physicians - 2 year(s) ago
The harm to patients and our nation’s public health triggered by last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization continues to expand and worsen. That’s because lawmakers, state officials and other third parties are seeking to exert their influence into the patient-physician relationship, impede access to evidence-based reproductive health services, and…
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Interference in patient-physician relationships undermines public health. @JackResneckMD @DrCaitBernard @AmerMedicalAssn https://t.co/RJPb4WkbkT
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Mashup Score: 2Highlights from the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting - 2 year(s) ago
Track the news and other key moments from the AMA House of Delegates’ meeting in Honolulu. The 2022 AMA Interim Meeting runs Nov. 12–15. AMA Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians After fighting for physicians during the pandemic, the AMA is taking on the next extraordinary challenge: Renewing the nation’s commitment to physicians. Let’s Get Started Saturday, Nov. 12 Saturday, Nov. 12 After…
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RT @1980_welsh: Stay up-to-date with key moments from #AMAmtg. https://t.co/404K9uKWNI
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Mashup Score: 0AMA statement on bipartisan firearm safety bill becoming law - 3 year(s) ago
The following statement is attributable to: Jack Resneck Jr., M.D. President, American Medical Association “With President Biden’s signature today, for the first time in nearly three decades, new measures to confront the public health crisis of gun violence are law. This law will save lives. “In the wake of horrific mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, a bipartisan group of senators showed…
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Glad to see the bipartisan gun legislation pass. It’s the first federal gun restrictions since the assault weapons ban in 1994, but we cannot let up the pressure! More partnerships need to be found. Lives continue to be in danger! #GunReform https://t.co/LWXRQvFlao
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Mashup Score: 0AMA statement on Texas school shooting - 3 year(s) ago
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Even the AMA has been pushing for “common-sense” gun laws and declared gun violence a public health crisis. @AmerMedicalAssn President @GeraldHarmonMD today said, “We call on lawmakers, leaders and advocates to say enough is enough.” Lawmakers MUST act! https://t.co/2gMm0uXLHK
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Mashup Score: 22021 medical school class sees enrollment diversity grow - 3 year(s) ago
First-year medical student enrollment saw significant gains among those from historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups. Enrollment jumped more than 20% among Black medical students and 7% among students “who are Hispanic, Latino, or of Spanish origin,” data released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) indicated. Med School Prep Checklist Start medical school off on…
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RT @tcymet: 2021 medical school class sees enrollment diversity grow https://t.co/IY7sA6oPOU
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Mashup Score: 1Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship - 3 year(s) ago
Program purpose Program purpose Started in 2021, in collaboration with the Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), the Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship is an educational initiative to empower physician-led advocacy that advances equity and removes barriers to optimal health for marginalized and minoritized people and communities. The fellowship…
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RT @tcymet: Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship https://t.co/ZfNvH6q0fk
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While the public’s trust in many institutions has waned during the COVID-19 pandemic, people still trust their doctors—and doctors trust the AMA. Subscribe to AMA Advocacy Update Stay current on the latest on the issues impacting physicians, patients and the health care environment with the AMA’s Advocacy Update Newsletter. Sign Up Now AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James L. Madara, MD,…
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“Supporting physicians and improving our nation’s health has been our focus since 1847,” said @AmerMedicalAssn EVP/CEO @CEO_AMA, James L. Madara, MD, in his #AMAmtg address. https://t.co/Kwf8JwS4er
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The following statement is attributable to: American Medical Association American Hospital Association American Nurses Association “Today’s full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—the result of many months of work, robust data evaluation, and a thorough, comprehensive review process that has already protected more than one hundred…
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Today’s full @US_FDA approval of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine is a major step forward in ending the pandemic. Millions of data speak to the vaccine’s safety & efficacy. This vaccine prevents severe COVID, hospitalization, deaths, and it saves lives. https://t.co/tojoIyhD9J
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Soon @Oprah Discusses Weight Loss, #Obesity, and #Ozempic - @AskDr_Rachel @askdrfatima https://t.co/aJr0XKPKGB