California Medical Association

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The CMA has led and still leads the fight against tobacco use and smoking and insisted early on -- in the face of criticism and fear of the newly found disease -- that HIV and AIDS patients deserve needed health care. The CMA continues to advocate for patients on a broad range of health care issues, including broader immunization against disease and universal health care coverage by insurance and other means.

The CMA also helped to establish some of the first blood banks and cornea banks in the West and helped create the California Tumor and Tissue Registry in 1947—what is today the second largest tumor and tissue registry in the world.

Website: http://www.cmanet.org/