This debate hinges on educational qualifications, clinical experience and the evolving nature of healthcare roles.

Traveling nurses are coming to New York to help with the novel coronavirus pandemic. Doctors are stepping out of their specialties.

Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients -- but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests.

Tensions between doctors and nurses can often simmer underneath the surface. In South Korea, they have spilled into the open as a monthslong doctors’ strike strains the nation’s hospitals.

Nurses do important work, but doctors get much more graduate and residency training. To the Editor: I am writing in response to the recent article discussing the debate over who should be allowed to ...