OGDEN — Mitchell Cobia was all set to become an engineer when a family member's emergency health care experience changed his mind. Cobia studied nursing at Weber State University then continued his ...

The projected shortage of primary care physicians in the coming years, along with a relatively high turnover rate among physician assistants and nurse practitioners will challenge medical groups as ...

NEW ORLEANS — The demand for health care is growing fast and some communities across the state, whether rural or urban, don't have the same access to doctors that others have. That's where providers ...

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs) bring advanced clinical training and a patient-centered approach, ...

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A: I actually decided not to become a doctor when I was a junior at Carroll College — not because of grades (I promise I was doing just fine!) but because of a particular experience watching a close ...

To the editor: Here we go again with the calls to allow nurse practitioners to practice without a physician’s direct supervision. Nurse practitioners and doctors do not receive the same training.

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Southcoast Health has added 12 new providers to its team. The new providers will join family medicine, the hospitalist ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom paved the way for nurse practitioners in California to practice medicine independent of doctors under a bill he signed Tuesday. Newsom’s signature represents the culmination of a ...

Reporting from Sacramento — Nurse practitioners, who undergo more training than registered nurses, have been lobbying the Legislature for years to care for patients on their own without a physician’s ...