Healthcare

Increased “scope of practice” for advanced practice nurse practitioners is not associated with lower wages for primary care physicians.

Nurse practitioners will have to pick up the slack beginning in 2014, if the Supreme Court allows President Barack Obama’s healthcare law to add at least 30 million people to U.S. practices.

Mayo Clinic approach uses cognitive-behavioural therapy, exercise, other modalities

Preclinical research suggests vagus nerve could be key in the development of colitis

Canada Health Infoway says Nightingale on Demand, a software product developed by Nightingale Informatix, is the first product in Canada to successfully achieve electronic medical record (EMR) certification.

Hospital finds several ampules of powerful heart drug erroneously packaged with painkiller.