Osteopathic medicine is one of the fastest-growing healthcare professions in the country—with both an increase in the number of doctors practicing in the U.S. and in the number of medical students. In ...

As a doctor of osteopathic medicine, Sheldon Yao finds there is often confusion when people notice the initials after his name are D.O., rather than the more familiar M.D. “They might ask, ‘Are you an ...

Pictured above, a rendering of the entry of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences' campus in Joplin, Missouri, set to open in June. With the United States facing a shortage of physicians ...

A disciplinary hearing for Dr. Ming-Wei Wu has been delayed until March 28, and the Nevada State Board of Osteopathic Medicine added restrictions to his license that keep him from performing surgeries ...

When Dr. Jerry McQuain walks the wards of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, he dons the garb typical of a doctor — a long white coat covering his scrubs, a stethoscope hanging on ...

My previous post on osteopathic medical training--suggesting that osteopathic physicians, on average, may not be as good as doctors with MD degrees--received a flood of negative comments. In ...

Dr. Katherine Pannel was initially thrilled to see President Donald Trump’s physician is a doctor of osteopathic medicine. A practicing D.O. herself, she loved seeing another glass ceiling broken for ...

LAS CRUCES — As President Donald Trump spent last weekend at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington D.C. receiving treatment for COVID-19 disease, his physician entered the ...

After three of Andrew Taylor Still’s children died of spinal meningitis in 1864, the midwestern healer turned against mainstream medicine. Eschewing drugs and surgery, Still gravitated toward the ...

It's less and less prudent to assume every doctor you meet is an MD. One in 10 physicians in Polk County and Florida has DO, doctor of osteopathic medicine, after their names. The 114, 425 osteopathic ...