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Physician assistants say their title is belittling and doesn’t convey what they do. “We don’t assist,” they insist. Doctors’ groups fear there’s more than just a name in play.

A letter to state senators from the national group Committee to Protect Health Care outlined a series of questions about Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s positions, including his opposition to required masks in schools.

French law had set a Sept. 15 deadline for the country's 2.7 million health care workers to get vaccinated. The ones who didn't get a jab were suspended, the country's health minister says.

Prosecutors say two executives with SpineFrontier are accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes disguised as consulting fees to surgeons in exchange for the surgeons using the manufacturer's products.

The Broward Health system has added 40 slots for medical residents over the past couple of years. They’re now training 191 new doctors this academic year, up from 151 in the 2019-20 year.

"It’s horrible that we’ve retreated into our partisan tribes relating to things like masks and vaccines and whether or not COVID is even real, and whether or not we are lying about the hospitals being full."

FAU and FIU are among many colleges and universities seeing an influx of applications as a result of the pandemic. Some say the interest is generated by the public profile of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Data show at least seven in 10 Americans trust doctors, nurses and pharmacists to do what’s right for them and their families either most or all of the time.

It's urging universal mask use with children under 12 unable to receive a vaccine and cases rising in Florida.

Physicians who don’t comply with the new requirements could face disciplinary action from their state boards if complaints are filed and found to have merit.