In response to the trend of more doctors performing procedures outside their specialty, a number of state legislatures are looking to reexamine the rules surrounding what physicians can and can't do, ...

Florida House Bill 449 would allow optometrists to perform eye surgeries, despite their lack of medical degrees and surgical training. Opponents of the bill emphasize the vast difference in education ...

While the COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 a trying year, one unintended benefit was that the Florida legislature allowed pharmacists to further expand their scope of practice to help patients with certain ...

The AADA joined four other physician organizations and successfully convinced the Oregon Board of Dentistry to oppose allowing dental hygienists to administer botulinum toxins to treat conditions that ...

As it stands, there is no statutory or centrally-backed guidance outlining how physician associates should work in general practice. Given the variety of potentially conflicting views, Eliza Parr ...

This document defines the Scope of Practice for the primary specialty of Medical Genetics. It serves as a revision of a 2008 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) Policy Statement ...