News and Publications

NewspapersMMS publishes a wide variety of online and print news and specialty publications. Up-to-the minute health care news may also be found on the MMS Twitter feed  and the MMS blog. MMS members may join the MMS LinkedIn group to discuss current affairs and news with other Massachusetts physicians.


Clinical Publications

The MMS publishes The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world's leading medical journals; the NEJM Journal Watch family of professional newsletters covering 11 specialties; and AIDS Clinical Care.

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Vital Signs This Week

Vital Signs This Week is the MMS' weekly newsletter distributed to more than 24,000 members and subscribers via email.

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MMS News Releases

Latest news from the MMS.

  • Massachusetts Medical Society testifies in opposition to House 1793 September 10, 2013

    Saying that the bill “presents an unbalanced approach which works to the interest of a few individual nurses seeking to independently practice psychiatry while presenting no protections to patients,” the Massachusetts Medical Society today testified before the legislature’s Joint Committee on...

  • September Physician Focus TV: The Physician-Patient Relationship August 26, 2013

    The guest for the show is Dennis M. Dimitri, M.D., a board-certified family physician in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clinical Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass Medical School, and Vice President...

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Physician Focus

Physician Focus is a monthly media and public information television program  featuring a wide variety of medical topics.  Companion print articles, bylined by member physicians, are distributed to daily, weekly, and monthly publications in the state.

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Research and Studies

MMS frequently sponsors research on emerging health policy issues affecting the well-being of physicians and patients.

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Online Newsroom

The MMS Online Newsroom has resources and contacts for members of the media.

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