Much of the shortage of primary care physicians expected over the next decade could be eliminated if the nation increases use of new models of medical care that expand the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, ...
Nov 4, 2013
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The pendulum of opioid prescribing for pain has swung sharply in the last decade, as the epidemic of opioid overuse, addiction and overdose led policymakers and health care providers to ratchet back on the prescriptions patients ...
Aug 14, 2023
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My uncle was diagnosed with COVID-19, and his doctors mentioned the possibility of putting him on ECMO. What does this mean?
May 14, 2021
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The demand for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is expected to outpace the orthopedic workforce, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, held from March 7 to 11 ...
Mar 15, 2023
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On July 8, Medicare announced plans to reimburse physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants for services to help their patients plan the care they would want if they were too ill to speak for themselves. If ...
Aug 5, 2015
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Dan Ryszka is a pharmacist, so he knows something about medicine. But he was still stumped when drug after drug failed to curb his children's violent seizures. Then they joined New York's fledgling medical marijuana program, ...
Sep 3, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Diabetes outcomes do not differ for patients treated with a primary care provider who is either a physician, nurse practitioner (NP), or physician assistant (PA), according to a study published online Nov. 20 ...
Nov 20, 2018
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What are you looking forward to this fall and winter?
Oct 13, 2023
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Nurse practitioners (NPs) represent 1-in-5 primary care clinicians and their ranks are growing faster than doctors particularly in rural areas, where nearly half of all primary care practices employ at least one NP. Some ...
Jul 31, 2020
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Giving nurse practitioners the authority to prescribe buprenorphine has brought that gold standard treatment for opioid addiction to people who might not have had access to it before, according to a new study led by Tracy ...
Nov 23, 2020
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