Author: Paige Haeffele

Ryan Wade, MD, has been appointed medical director of the Freedom Institute, an addiction treatment center in New York City.

Phoenix Children's selected Christina Conrad, DO, and Theresa Asta, MSN, RN, to lead its freestanding emergency department in Avondale, Ariz. 

Nurse practitioners make an average of $124,680 annually in the U.S., according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.

The average annual salary for physician assistants in the U.S. is $125,270, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.

George Dickstein, MD, a gastroenterologist at Boston Endoscopy Center and chair of the Department of Medicine at MetroWest Medical Center in Natick, Mass., recently shared five ways to ensure success when managing a practice, from proper staffing levels to cost-cutting…

The average yearly salary among physicians of all specialties is $352,000, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023.

Public health and preventive medicine physicians, medicine's lowest-paid specialists, earned nearly 60 percent less than plastic surgeons, the highest-paid specialists, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023.

Plastic surgeons, medicine's highest-earning specialists, earned an average of $619,000, whereas the lowest-paid specialty earned $249,000, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report" for 2023.

Pedro Villablanca, MD, and Brian O'Neill, MD, completed the first minimally-invasive valve replacement procedure in the U.S. using the new LuX-Valve Plus device.

Mississippi is the worst state for children's healthcare, according to personal finance website WalletHub's "Best & Worst States for Children's Health Care" list for 2023.