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Cassie Iutzi is the 2011 recipient of the American Medical Association Foundation's Arthur N. Wilson, MD Scholarship, the foundation announced Wednesday. Iutzi, a graduate of Juneau-Douglas...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2011-08-06
Neighbors
Man dies at center for street alcoholics

...has caught on in other cities as well - sometimes with positive results. A 2009 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that Seattle's program saved taxpayers more than $4 million a year and credited the system with helping...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-01-04/man-dies-center-street-alcoholics
State
Outside editorial: Have you had the end-of-life discussion?

...accurate tools to predict a patient's life expectancy. But a new study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association may help further that discussion. The New York Times reports that researchers at UC San Francisco "have identified...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-01-17/outside-editorial-have-you-had-end-li
Opinion
IPAB set up to make hard choices Congress dodges

...has introduced companion legislation in his chamber.Other attackers include such vested interests as the American Medical Association - which represents about a third of the nation's doctors, and PhRMA, the trade association voice of the prescription...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-08-04-0
Opinion
Angoon may reconsider its dry status

...Price is a factor." He pointed to studies that back him up. A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1997, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, concluded that measures limiting...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082105/sta_20050821007.shtml
News
Beyond boredom

A 2003 study by the American Medical Association found that clinical depression accounts for more than $44 billion in losses annually because of employees with untreated or under-treated...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/100106/cb_20061002004.shtml
CB
Lunch at JDHS: hip vs. healthy

...chicken strips from the deli at Alaskan & Proud market. A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 64.5 percent of the population is overweight. The study also showed that obesity in America is...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101302/loc_lunch1.shtml
News
Frito pie is part of a bigger picture

...sugar intake, can cause blindness, loss of limbs and death. A study released last week by the Journal of the American Medical Association indicated that 15 percent of young people between 6 and 19 were overweight, a 50 percent increase from a decade...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101302/loc_lunch2.shtml
News
State could lose millions in Medicare payments

...lose $10 million in Medicare payments to physicians by 2005 unless Congress intervenes, according to the American Medical Association. Jim Jordan, executive director for the Alaska State Medical Association, said Tuesday such a loss would...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101702/sta_medicare.shtml
News
Public health, women's issues, and Nov. 5

...preferred position zero percent of the time in the past one to three years: American Public Health Association, American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Planned Parenthood of America, American Association...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102202/opi_myturn.shtml
Opinion

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