I am writing in response to the recent article discussing the debate over who should be allowed to use the title "doctor" in the medical field ("Who Should Be Called a 'Doctor'?," Aug. 16). As a ...

The war in Ukraine is heading into its third winter, stretching the battered health care system to its breaking point. The World Health Organization’s last tally in August counted 1,940 attacks on ...

"I had a negative stigma in my brain. But, being here and learning, talking to these patients and hearing their stories really changed my mind." ...

Wisconsin lawmakers quietly but meaningfully expanded the scope of practice for certain nurses, allowing them to work independently.

The Trump administration has restored promised funds to a program that teaches people in health care how to work with aging ...

The nurse practitioner will see you now. It’s not the phrase most people are accustomed to hearing, but it’s increasingly the case, with patients more likely than ever to see providers with advanced ...

In some local school districts, nurses can now run telehealth appointments with Albany Medical Center doctors for students ...

The first physicians’ union formed in 1934, when hospital residents – doctors in training who tended then, as now, to be paid relatively little and forced to work long hours – organized to demand ...

Nurse practitioners, or NPs, can diagnose and treat illnesses, prescribe medication and do other tasks similar to a doctor.

As hospitals struggle from a monthslong walkout, nurses have picked up some of the slack. A new law gives them more responsibilities and, they say, greater recognition. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from ...