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Tension: Health systems built to treat bodies are being asked to treat the absence of human connection — and the fact that a walking group referral counts as medical innovation reveals how badly civic ...

Welcome to the idea of “produce prescriptions” — and how it could be the future of fighting disease and saving money.

Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia allow nurse practitioners to prescribe medication without a doctor’s supervision. According to a new study, NPs do so just as safely as physicians when ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a new bill into law in New York, aimed at bolstering protections for doctors prescribing abortion medication. This legislative action follows a high-profile case where a ...

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The nation's top federal health agency urged doctors to avoid prescribing powerful opiate painkillers for patients with chronic pain, saying the risks from such drugs far outweigh the benefits for ...