Category: American Medical Association

Private-Equity Firms Are Buying Out Medical Practices and Raising Prices for Americans: Study

July 14, 2023
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Private-equity firms have been buying up individual physician practices at a rapidly increasing rate over the past decade and raising prices for millions of Americans, according to a study released this week. The rise in acquisitions by investor groups of market share in the health care industry are leading to higher treatment costs, the study showed. When private…

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Japanese Study Shows ‘Significant Association’ Between Screen Time and Autism in Boys

February 2, 2022
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Research conducted by the University of Yamanashi in Japan indicates a “significant association” between longer screentime for boys at one year of age and being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when they are three years old. The research team, led by Megumi Kushima encouraged a review of the health effects of screen time on…

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Novel Newborn Genetic Screen Possible for Earlier Diagnosis and Treatment

January 24, 2022
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Research led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) has reported that their novel newborn genetic screen may be feasible and reliable to test for three rare genetic disorders simultaneously. The research, led by Professor David Godler from the MCRI, developed a method to screen for Prader Willi, Angelman and Dup15 simultaneously from a sample…

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Medical Journals Pour Forth Hundreds of Articles on Race and Racism

November 22, 2021
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The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association and its JAMA network of other periodicals have published about 950 articles on race, racism, and racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in the past five years—about a third appearing in just the past year. A search for “health disparities” on the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed.gov…

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Two Medical Organizations Wish to Guide our Language Like Dictators

November 14, 2021
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Commentary It is not easy to produce a document that is at once unctuous, verbose and ill-written, self-satisfied and self-important, dishonest, sentimental, bullying and sinister, but the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges, with their recent joint 54-page “Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts,” has managed it….

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Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Youth Weight Gain Throughout the Pandemic

September 27, 2021
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PASADENA, Calif.—A Kaiser Permanente study of nearly 200,000 Southern California children found that children gained excess weight during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those between the ages of 5 and 11, according to results released Sept. 27. “When we compared the weight gain among children from 2019 to 2020, we found that there was more weight…

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American Medical Association Embraces Critical Race Theory, Rejects Meritocracy

May 12, 2021
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The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest national organization representing physicians and medical students in the United States, has vowed to give up its long-held meritocratic ideal in favor of “racial justice” and “health equity.” In an 86-page strategic plan released Tuesday, the AMA lays out a three-year road map detailing how the organization will…

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