Article: US District Court hands down decision in patent infringement case between Star Navigation Systems and AMA.

Article: The AMA's dirty hands.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ......between the American Medical Association (AMA) and Sunbeam Inc. raises concerns over questionable...organizations and profit-making corporations. The AMA, which was poised to make millions of dollars...disapproval went up from physicians and AMA members across the country. This news-making...

Article: AMA to reinvent itself: but will state and specialty societies support an 'organization of organizations'? (Stat).(American Medical Association)(Statistical Data Included)
Modern Physician;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......under a proposed, sweeping reorganization of the AMA approved June 19 by the policy-setting AMA House of Delegates. Delegates voted to convert...membership of its own. But the plan to retool the AMA as an organization of organizations still lacks...

Article: Key AMA exec quits in shakeup
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 1, 1997 ;     463 words ......who led controversial efforts to sell AMA endorsements to major corporations - resigned...Johnson, chief lawyer for the Chicago-based AMA since 1984, quit after the association stripped...lobbying and policy-setting. Last week, the AMA took responsibility for communication away...

Article: Dermatologists question AMA's actions
Dermatology Times;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Physicians say AMA is needed but must have better communication...controversies were expected to come up at the AMA's annual meeting, and On Call asked dermatologists...around the country whether they think the AMA is an effective voice for physician concerns...

Article: Cash squeeze ahead: AMA needs to go the way of 'Good Housekeeping' or lose its relevance.(American Medical Association)(Column)
Modern Healthcare;  December 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...AMA needs to go the way of 'Good Housekeeping' or lose its relevance...the group's backpedaling does not change fiscal reality: The AMA needs money. There is a way for the organization to obtain...it needs without alienating the public or its members. The AMA should offer its services, for a fee, to analyze ...

Article: All charged up.(American Medical Association asks Myhealthscore.com to remove AMA's Current Procedural Terminology codes from its website)
Modern Physician;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Web site's posting of CPT codes angers the AMA The AMA is demanding that a healthcare information company stop...for about three months until receiving a letter from the AMA, warning it to remove them. The CPT codes are a standardized...

Article: Illinois doctors give AMA till '91 to clean up its act
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 9, 1990 ;     460 words ......Illinois doctors chose Sunday to give the AMA a chance to reform itself rather than quitting...directed its board to continue pressuring the AMA to clean itself up and to report back in 1991, when a break with the AMA will be reconsidered. "The message we are...

Article: AMA to settle Sunbeam lawsuit for $9.9 million // Payment for ending endorsement deal
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 1, 1998 ;     386 words ......million to settle a lawsuit filed after the AMA broke its agreement to endorse Sunbeam products. The settlement brings to an end the AMA's disastrous foray into commercial endorsements a year ago. AMA executives announced in August, 1997, that...

Article: AMA Sets Future Course: Unveils New Look, Focus
U.S. Newswire;  June 16, 2005 ;     585 words ......U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Medical Association (AMA) unveiled an ambitious marketing campaign today aimed...new logo highlight the three-year plan outlined by AMA leaders Thursday. The AMA will introduce the campaign formally to its physician...

Article: AMA board meets today on bailout of exec
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 2, 1989 ;     414 words ......an emergency meeting today to discuss why a top AMA executive received what he now concedes was an...wrongdoing, but resigned last week as president of AMA Services Inc., the holding company for the AMA's for-profit subsidiaries, and agreed to repay...

Article: Bristow and Benjamin achieve honors in the AMA: Two African-American
Philadelphia Tribune, The;  August 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Bristow and Benjamin achieve honors in the AMA: Two African-American. doctors make a difference on the AMA board Speech after speech, and interview after...president of the American Medical Association (AMA), and Benjamin the first Young Physician member...

Article: Revealed: Memo that should have saved Ama.(Features)
Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales);  January 20, 2008 ;     586 words ......Sarah Manners Wales on Sunday Cancer patient Ama Sumani is hoping a legal loophole will enable...priority. Solicitors are currently working on Ama's case while she undergoes dialysis three...priority . It was sent out four weeks BEFORE Ama was ordered out of the country. Plaid Cymru...

Article: Letter to the editor: Dermatologists better served by AMA than they might believe
Dermatology Times;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......President of the American Medical Assn. (AMA), I feel compelled to respond to several...much of the criticism leveled against the AMA in the article is undeserved. Most problematic are the implications that the AMA is not doing enough to fight managed care...

Article: AMA-Sunbeam dispute heads to court. (American Medical Association)
Modern Healthcare;  September 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Sunbeam Corp. were a perfect match. The AMA stood to make an estimated $1 million a...array of projects including marketing the AMA's own consumer products along with Sunbeam...Sunbeam also agreed to boost royalties if the AMA helped persuade retailers to carry Sunbeam...