AMA Wants Probe of Pharmacy-Based Health Clinics

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The AMA took several other votes during its annual meeting. They included:

• A vote to lobby for laws allowing severely allergic children to bring lifesaving medicine to school. The recommendation refers to medicines such as epinephrine and other injectable drugs that treat severe allergic reactions called anaphylaxis, which can cause swelling, difficulty breathing, loss of consciousness and death, the Associated Press reported.

  Currently, many school districts prohibit children from bringing medicine to school and 18 states have similar bans, according to Dr. Duane Cady, a member of the AMA's Board of Trustees.

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  A vote to adopt a policy endorsing the use of radio frequency identification tags (RFIDs), which store essential medical information under the skin of patients. The devices, the size of a grain of rice, are implanted with a needle and could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, the AP reported.

  The main concern surrounding the devices is protecting the privacy of the stored information.

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For more information, visit the American Medical Association.

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