AMA & AMA Alliance Offer Good Health Tips

The new millennium will bring tremendous challenges and opportunities in preventing illness and disease. New technology, tests and treatments will result in more accurate diagnoses and better outcomes for patients. Great strides will be made in biogenetic engineering and clinical research. Some infectious diseases will be uncovered, while cures for existing diseases will be discovered.

Despite all of the developments we foresee, Americans have to take many of the same precautions against poor health and disease in the next millennium that we have in this one. For those people who haven't been taking those precautions, there is no better time to start than now.

The best way for individuals to begin improving their health in the Year 2000 -- and beyond -- is by establishing a partnership with your physician to help you take charge of your health. To get everyone started, the American Medical Association and the AMA Alliance would like to offer several recommendations on maintaining good health in the new millennium -- for people of all ages.