American Medical Association stories:
House Moves to Protect Doctors from Medicare Cuts
Nov 20th, 2009 - myfoxdc
WASHINGTON (AP) â?" The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.
The measure...Folic Acid, B12 May Increase Cancer Risk
Nov 18th, 2009 - WebMD
Nov. 17, 2009 -- There is new evidence that folic acid, taken in largedoses, may promote some cancers. Heart patients in Norway who took folic acid and vitamin B12 supplementswere...
Egyptian Mummies Had Clogged Arteries
Nov 18th, 2009 - ABC News
Rich Egyptians living 3,500 years ago may have been walking around with the same clogged arteries that modern Americans now battle, according to a presentation Monday at the American Heart Association's annual meeting.Ancients 'had heart disease too'
Nov 17th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Djeher, a male mummy, lived in the Ptolemaic era 304-30 BC
Hardening of the arteries has been found in Egyptian mummies - suggesting that the risk factors for heart disease may be ancient...Incidence of High Cholesterol Drops in US
Nov 17th, 2009 - US News
TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- The good news is that a new report shows the percentage of American adults with high LDL cholesterol, the "bad" kind that clogs arteries...
American Medical Association videos from YouTube:
10:06Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is ...
4:49American Medical Association (AMA) events in the early 1900's led to... (DON'T MISS THIS ONE!)
This short clip gives some great insight on the two different approaches to healthcare with humans. See what happened in the early 1900's that caused Modern/Western/Allopathic Medicine to become more popularized ...
1:01AMA - The American Medical Association
Here is the advertisement clip from AMA.. check it out really great.,.
55:10Obama Proposes Sweeping Changes In Health Care To AMA
full transcript at www.theuptake.org President Obama gave a landmark, sweeping speech on health care reform to the American Medical Association in Chicago. More so than at any time before ...
American Medical Association from WikiPedia:
The American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847 and incorporated 1897, is the largest association of physicians and medical students in the United States. While its membership has declined in recent years, it claims approximately 20% of practicing physicians as members. The AMA's stated mission is to promote the art and science of medicine for the betterment of the public health, to advance the interests of physicians and their patients, to promote public health, to lobby for legislation favorable to physicians and patients, and to raise money for medical education. The Association also publishes the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which has the largest circulation of any weekly medical journal in the world. The AMA also publishes a list of Physician Specialty Codes which are a standard method in the U.S. for identifying physician and practice specialties. Ronald M. Davis MD finished his term as President on June 17, 2008 at which time Nancy H Nielsen MD, PhD was sworn in as the Association's 163rd President.
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