The training and education given to nurse practitioners does not adequately prepare them for independent practice, according to two physicians—one who used to be a nurse practitioner (NP) and another ...

Qualified patients can now get a lifetime guarantee that any new costs related to their shoulder-replacement surgery will be completely covered. One done, many more to come. Orthopaedic surgeons at ...

What is going on with eggs in the U.S.? Is there a new strain of bird flu? How do you treat tuberculosis (TB)? How is TB transmitted? What is the most recent Ebola outbreak? Today's episode covers ...

Often wrongly called the “stomach flu,” norovirus sickens tens of millions of Americans annually. Two physicians explain how to prevent and treat it. It seems as though everyone has experienced a ...

Welcome, members of the 119th Congress. You have a tremendous opportunity to bring meaningful and long-overdue changes to health care that will better support physicians, remove barriers for patients, ...

The alarming rates of physician burnout are beginning to decline, according to an exclusive survey from the AMA. This progress came as the deadliest and most trying part of the COVID-19 public health ...

What are top stressors for doctors? How common is physician burnout? What are the most stressful medical specialties? Is administrative burden in health care fixable? Christine Sinsky, MD, a general ...

Physicians who may have wondered why Medicare payment reform has become the AMA’s single most important advocacy priority received a painful reminder last week when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

In 2009, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials said they had to do their own investigation into how menthol cigarettes may be harming the public’s health, despite Congress’ having already done ...