By My Hanh (Theresa) Nguyen Special to The Sacramento Bee ...

When Ariela Schnyer was choosing where to get trained as a nurse-midwife, California stood out for an important reason: The state would allow clinicians like her to provide abortions. But three years ...

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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 ...

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A Scripps Health nurse treats a coronavirus patient in an ICU. Image from Scripps video In the past month, four emergency room nurses — exhausted by the onslaught of patients and emotional turmoil ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

SACRAMENTO — More Californians are acquiring medical insurance, but there are increasingly fewer primary care doctors to treat them. There’s an easy partial fix, but it’s blocked by an old turf war.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the demand for health care workers surges with the coronavirus case count, many states are rushing to lift restrictions on nurse practitioners, who provide much of the same ...