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AMA Update 463: How to find reliable health information, weight loss drug research, and GLP-1 side effects

What is the most trusted medical information source? Is semaglutide safe? What is the best treatment for obesity? How long can you be on semaglutide for weight loss?
Our guest is Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 344: Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, on misinformation, rebuilding patient trust and good healthcare marketing

#AMAupdate welcomes back former SVP and Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce, Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA. This episode, Dr. Geeta Nayyar discusses how healthcare leaders can use new technologies like AI and existing social media platforms to reach new patients, rebuild trust in the community, stop the spread of medical misinformation, and combat the anti-science movement. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

📖 For more on Dr. Nayyar’s book «Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare’s Information Illness», visit: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-wrong-geeta-nayyar/1143303950

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AMA Update 261: Challenging racial bias and medical myth-busting on Tiktok, Twitter and Instagram with Joel Bervell

Joel Bervell, a social media educator and fourth-year medical student in Baltimore, shares how he is using his social media platform to address health disparities, racial bias and misinformation in health care. Joel is the former AMA medical student digital fellow. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 201: Vaccines and boosters offer best protection from COVID winter wave with Ashish Jha, MD, MPH

In March 2022, Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, joined the Biden Administration as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. The general internist physician and academic, who is on short-term leave as Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, spoke with American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger about the new COVID booster and managing COVID this fall and winter.

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AMA Update 132: AMA President Gerald Harmon, MD, on fixing our health system and rebuilding trust

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with AMA President Gerald Harmon, MD, a family medicine specialist in Pawleys Island, S.C., who shares five actions we can take now to fix our ailing health care system and rebuild trust.

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AMA Update 51: Dr. William Melms on vaccination in rural areas

A discussion with William Melms, MD, chief medical officer of the Marshfield Clinic Health System, about vaccination in rural communities, including addressing hesitancy, misinformation and other challenges.

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