# Independent Medical Alliance

> The Independent Medical Alliance is a healthcare nonprofit on a mission to restore trust, integrity, and the doctor-patient relationship.
> Last updated: 2026-04-25

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## Recent Content

- [IMA on the Future of Medicine: Key Trends and What’s Ahead](https://imahealth.org/ima-on-the-future-of-medicine/): What does the future of medicine look like, and what does it take to build it outside a system that has lost patient trust?
- [New Review Finds Most New Cancer Drugs Help Fewer Than 2% of Patients](https://imahealth.org/new-review-finds-most-new-cancer-drugs-help-fewer-than-2-perecent-of-patients/): Most new cancer drugs only help a tiny fraction of patients. A new review from IMA researchers maps the cheaper, broader strategies the system keeps overlooking.
- [Childhood Vaccine Schedule: Court Ruling Raises Questions About Who Decides](https://imahealth.org/childhood-vaccine-schedule-court-ruling-raises-questions-about-who-decides/): Dr. Ryan Cole discusses a federal court ruling siding with the AAP to block vaccine schedule oversight and what parents should know about shared decision-making.
- [When War Teaches Medicine](https://imahealth.org/when-war-teaches-medicine/): Dr. Joseph Varon explores what 12th-century physician Maimonides understood about medicine's purpose—and what modern healthcare has lost in its pursuit of technology and standardization.
- [Autism Affects 1 in 31: One Doctor's Search for Answers](https://imahealth.org/autism-at-1-in-31-one-doctors-search-for-answers/): Dr. Elizabeth Mumper’s 46-year pediatric career, spanning 600+ patients across 20 states, reveals what medical schools still aren’t teaching about autism.
- [Independent Medical Alliance Named Liaison to CDC's ACIP Vaccine Committee](https://imahealth.org/independent-medical-alliance-named-liaison-to-cdcs-acip-vaccine-committee/): America's #1 independent physician association appointed to advise CDC on federal immunization policy, bringing the voice of frontline doctors to the table.
- [Parents’ Voices Matter: Informed Consent & Vaccine Choice](https://imahealth.org/parents-voices-matter-informed-consent-vaccine-choice/): What does informed consent actually require? Three practitioners break it down and share strategies parents can use at their next appointment.
- [The Lost Art of Medicine: What Maimonides Knew That We Forgot](https://imahealth.org/the-lost-art-of-medicine-what-maimonides-knew-that-we-forgot/): Dr. Joseph Varon explores what 12th-century physician Maimonides understood about medicine's purpose—and what modern healthcare has lost in its pursuit of technology and standardization.
- [The Last Lesson My Mother Taught Me](https://imahealth.org/the-last-lesson-my-mother-taught-me/): Dr. Joseph Varon reflects on his mother's passing and what it taught him about comfort care, dignity at the end of life, and the limits of modern medicine.
- [Detransitioners: Medical, Psychological, and Legal Realities](https://imahealth.org/detransitioners-medical-psychological-and-legal-realities/): What happens to patients who detransition? A pediatrician, bioethics advocate, and a real detransitioner examine the medical, psychological, and legal realities the system isn't prepared for.


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