National Medical Association

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The National Medical Association describes itself as "the largest and oldest national organization representing African-American physicians and their patients in the United States."

The group is headquartered in Washington, DC, and represents more than 25,000 black doctors.

It was founded in 1895, at a time when the American Medical Association admitted only white physicians.

[edit] Spam

In July 2007, a spam campaign was broadcast that claimed to come from "The United States National Medical Association," a fictional organization. Links in the message redirected to a drug sales site ostensibly based in China.^[1]

The spam has run incessantly from 27th June (around the time when the fraudulent us-nma.com domain name was registered) and continues to the present (2007-08-12).

US_CERT has issued a warning about the spam: http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#us_cert_warns_public_of