Going to visit your primary doctor regularly is vital to ensuring that you are healthy.Despite this, Harvard Public Health ...

Joseph Lanctot, a Scripps Health nurse practitioner, said in an Oct. 15 opinion article in Medpage Today that he wants patients and his colleagues to "stop calling me 'doctor.'" After introducing ...

Harvard Public Health estimates about 100 million Americans don't have a primary care provider. Instead, many people rely on ...

In contrast, a Medical Practitioner typically completes a bachelor's degree followed by a Doctor of Medicine degree, and then ...

Her community did not have a hospital, so she went to a group practice center that was staffed by nurse practitioners on a daily basis, but only had a physician available periodically. It just so ...

The lawsuit is part of an ongoing nationwide battle, in which nurse practitioners continue to seek expanded scope of practice, compensation and title changes to earn equality with their physician ...

And while the pipeline for producing more doctors hasn’t widened — something that would literally require an act of Congress — schools that train nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants ...

Michigan is facing a primary care shortage that’s only getting worse. It’s time to look at realistic solutions toaddress this ...

Sentara Medical Group, the physician group of Sentara Health, recently announced plans to double its number of nurse ...

Rural health care is expensive and  unprofitable , leading many people in need to  skip seeing a doctor  and leading to more ...

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree is designed as a terminal practice degree for clinically practicing nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and nursing leaders in health care ...

Chances are you have seen a nurse practitioner for a health care visit at some point in time. Although NPs have been around ...