Those who closely follow news and views on AI risk missing out on nine other technology categories that are changing our world just as fast. Or, as Stanford Prof. Condoleezza Rice puts it, “History will judge not only what we invented but also how and why we chose to do so.”

ACR presented its proposals at the AMA's Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee meeting held Jan. 14 to 17 in Los Angeles. 

Several states use taxpayer dollars to help struggling residents pay down medical debt. One is considered a leader of the movement—by critics as well as proponents. 

The Children’s Health Defense, a vaccine-skeptic lobby once chaired by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., filed a complaint in federal court against the American Academy of Pediatrics, alleging it engaged in systemic corruption. The same day, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his state would be investigating the financial ties between vaccine developers, insurers and pediatricians.

California’s decision to restrict the use of the title “doctor” in clinical settings underscores a growing disconnect between healthcare policy and the realities of modern care delivery. In an op-ed, health policy professor and former Virginia legislator, Dawn M. Adams, DNP, and Marissa J. Levine, MD, a public health physician and former Virginia health commissioner, argue that rigid physician-centric hierarchies no longer reflect how patients actually receive care.