American Medical Association
This November 2018 photo provided by the American Medical Association shows Gerald Harmon at the Interim Meeting of the AMA in National Harbor, Md. The nation’s largest, most influential doctors’ group is holding its annual policymaking meeting starting Friday, June 11, 2021, amid backlash over its most ambitious plan ever — to help dismantle centuries-old racism and bias in all realms of the medical establishment. Harmon, the group's incoming president, knows he isn’t the most obvious choice to lead the AMA at this pivotal time. But he seems intent on breaking down stereotypes and said pointedly in a phone interview, “This plan is not up for debate.’’ (Ted Grudzinski/American Medical Association via AP)
AMA doctors meet amid vocal backlash over racial equity plan

By Lindsey Tanner Jun. 12, 2021 08:13 AM EDT

Dr. Brittani James, left, and her twin sister Dr. Brandi Jackson stand for a portrait in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Sunday, May 2, 2021. The identical twin doctors who have fought bigotry all their lives have a lofty new mission: dismantling racism in medicine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world

By Lindsey Tanner May. 13, 2021 11:54 AM EDT

Dr. Brandi Jackson poses for a portrait in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Jackson and her twin, Dr. Brittani James, have taken on the medical establishment in pioneering work to eliminate racism in medicine. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Twin MDs battle entrenched racism in the medical world

By Lindsey Tanner May. 13, 2021 11:25 AM EDT

FILE - This Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015 file photo shows Dr. Raymond Givens at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York. On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, the American Medical Association released a comprehensive plan to dismantle structural racism inside its own ranks and within the U.S. medical establishment. ‘’People are dying on a daily basis from the same structural racism that they are now acknowledging,’’ Givens says. ‘’Given that, there’s a need to act as quickly as is responsible.’’ (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
US doctors group issues anti-racism plan for itself, field

By Lindsey Tanner May. 11, 2021 04:57 PM EDT

FILE - This July 23, 2018 file photo shows packets of buprenorphine, a drug which controls heroin and opioid cravings, in Greenfield, Mass. The U.S. government is easing requirements that made it difficult for doctors to treat opioid addiction using the medication. New guidelines announced Tuesday, April 27, 2021, mean doctors will no longer need eight hours of training to prescribe buprenorphine. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
US lifts barriers to prescribing addiction treatment drug

By Carla K. Johnson Apr. 27, 2021 09:34 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020 file photo, debris remains on the sidewalks in front of buildings damaged in a Christmas Day explosion in Nashville, Tenn. On Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting the explosion was caused by a missile or some kind of directed energy weapon. Surveillance video from a Metro Nashville Police Department camera at the intersection of 2nd Avenue North and Commerce Street captured the explosion and offers proof that the blast came from a parked recreational vehicle. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Dec. 31, 2020 03:31 PM EST

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, speaks during a media briefing in the James Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The credibility of two top public health agencies is on the line after controversial decisions that outside experts say suggest political pressure from the Trump administration. Hahn was forced to apologize for using an erroneous, misleading statistic describing the effectiveness of a blood plasma therapy granted emergency use for COVID-19, as Trump twisted the facts and inflated the significance of the move. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Health agencies' credibility at risk after week of blunders

By Matthew Perrone And Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Aug. 28, 2020 05:15 PM EDT

This May 2020 selfie photo provided by Terrence Nichols, 44, shows him in Chicago after a COVID-19 infection. Nichols has recovered physically from a relatively mild case of COVID-19, diagnosed in March. But as a Black man in Chicago, knowing its impact in his community has left Nichols feeling fearful, vulnerable and angry over the president’s push to reopen. (Terrence Nichols via AP)
Virus, Floyd death merge in brutal blow to Black well-being

By Lindsey Tanner Jul. 05, 2020 10:07 AM EDT

Three COVID Impact surveys find that black Americans are more likely than white Americans to say a family member or close friend who has died from COVID-19 or a respiratory illness since the start of the pandemic. ;
Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

By Kat Stafford And Hannah Fingerhut Jun. 15, 2020 08:01 AM EDT

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, April 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Latest: UN to decide in month whether to delay meeting

By The Associated Press Apr. 03, 2020 01:45 AM EDT