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- American Medical Student Association Disappointed with Court Decision Allowing Denial of Contraceptive Coverage
- American Medical Student Association Stands in Opposition Against the American Health Care Act
- American Medical Student Association Stands with Immigrant Communities & Decries President Trump’s Executive Order
- American Medical Student Association Visits Elected Officials During Annual Advocacy Day
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- AMSA continues to pressure the ACGME to keep the 16-hour limit for first-year residents
- AMSA Demands Senate Stand With Patients, Not Politics: Strike Down AHCA
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- AMSA Denounces Tax Plan, Endorses #RightToHealth: Improved Medicare for All Week of Action
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- AMSA Issues Statement to Defer Gender “Normalizing” Surgeries for Children Born as Intersex
- AMSA Joins Amicus Brief to Call for VA Support of Surgical Treatment for Transgender Veterans with Gender Dysphoria
- AMSA Joins Press Conference Against TPP
- AMSA Launches Med Out the Vote Campaign, Call to Action
- AMSA Opposes President’s Affronts to Contraception, Health Care Coverage, and Health Equity
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- AMSA Opposes Proposed Public Charge Rule
- AMSA Opposes Reported Federal Definition Excluding Transgender / Gender Non-Conforming Individuals
- AMSA Opposes Selection of Judge Brett Kavanaugh for United States Supreme Court
- AMSA Opposes Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal
- AMSA partners with for[MD] and MedPage Today to Launch Mentorship Program for AMSA Members
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- AMSA Responds on a National Scale to President Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
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- AMSA Response to President’s FY2019 Budget Request: Uphold Promises, Prioritize Health and Education
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- As Open Enrollment Launches, AMSA Educates Members, Patients
- Beyond the Classroom: Medical Students Master More than Medicine
- Distinguished Professionals Take Part in Cultivating Physicians-in-Training
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- Fewer than one in five teaching hospitals make the grade on conflict-of-interest policies
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- Health Care Reform Exemplifies Importance of Primary Care
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- Medical Students Oppose Doubling Interest Rates on Stafford Student Loans
- Medical Students Responds to Supreme Court Decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas
- New AMSA Scorecard Reflects Stronger Standards for Conflicts of Interest Policies
- North Carolina Health Professionals Speak Out Against Discriminatory House Bill 2: Detrimental to State Health
- Nova Southeastern University Medical Student Becomes National President of American Medical Student Association
- Paris Agreement Withdrawal: A Detriment to Public Health and Health Equity
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- Potential Trump Education Budget: Funding Cuts Hurt Trainees, Physicians, Patients
- Resident Doctors Face Risk as Work Hours Increase Again – AMSA Responds
- Supreme Court Decision on Pay-For-Delay Not Strong Enough
- The American Medical Student Association joins the Antibiotic Resistance Coalition to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- The American Medical Student Association Marches for Science
- The White Coats Are Coming: AMSA, Doctors Demand “Do No Harm” to GOP Senate Health Bill
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