Topic in Focus: Reproductive Health

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Jan. 25, 2018: State Advocacy Update

Treatment, not criminalization, for substance use disorders, AMA urges Nebraska to oppose APRN Compact and more in the latest state advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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AMA: Eliminate burdens for controlled substances’ e-prescribing

Delegates also push for effective opioid-use disorder in jails and prisons and emergency naloxone in public settings.

Interim Meeting
Physicians on panel listen to speaker.
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Physicians back programs to address maternal mortality, depression

Delegates also support comprehensive care that addresses the specific health needs of children in foster care.

Population Care
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AMA adopts new public health policies to improve health of the nation

AMA adopted new policies during the voting session of the AMA's Interim Meeting aimed at improving the health of the nation.

Press Releases
HOD Delegate speaks to crowd at meeting.
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AMA backs global health experts in calling infertility a disease

Delegates also support new advice on prenatal vitamin supplementation.

Public Health
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Feb. 23, 2017: National Advocacy Update

CMS contracts to small practices with QPP, maternal & infant health strategy and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Jan. 12, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Congress considers budget resolution, AMA-supported public health bills, patient-facing encounter codes and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Abortion

A physician may perform an abortion in accordance with good medical practice and under circumstances that do not violate the law.

Ethics
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Cloning for Reproduction

Reproductive cloning has the potential to be used in a eugenic or discriminatory fashion—practices that are incompatible with the ethical norms of medicine.

Ethics