AMA policy on chiropractic.

The Ama and Chiropractic

The State and Territory Competition Policy Reform Acts of 1995 applied the competitive conduct rules to Australian professions, including the medical profession, for the first time. The competitive conduct rules are basically the prohibitions on restrictive trading practices contained in Part IV of the Trade Practices Act. As the medical profession was effectively sheltered from the operation o...

"This ain't my daddy's AMA".

AAPM exerts leadership in public policy: the AMA summit, the pain research database, and opioid safety.

The first initiative I want to address involves our ongoing efforts to convene a pain summit involving all the leading stakeholders in the pain care community for the purpose of defining pain medicine, exploring certification and accreditation with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Board of Medical Specialties for the specialty of pain medicine, and setti...

Principles Governing AMA Web Sites

THE INTERNET HAS PERMITTED physicians, other health care professionals, patients, and other consumers to quickly access medical information in unprecedented volume. Such access has the potential to speed the transformation of the patient-physician relationship from that of physician authority ministering advice and treatment (with sometimes questionable patient understanding and adherence to re...

Lethal and amanitin-resistance mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans ama-1 and ama-2 genes.

Mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans resistant to alpha-amanitin have been isolated at a frequency of about 1.6 x 10(-6) after EMS mutagenesis of the wild-type strain, N2. Four new dominant resistance mutations have been studied genetically. Three are alleles of a previously identified gene, ama-1 IV, encoding the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II. The fourth mutation defines a new gene, ama-2 ...