Is an osteopathic physician a medical doctor? Well, it depends on who you ask. An osteopathic physician has a D.O. degree, which is different from the standard medical (M.D.) degree. I’ve commented in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the years after the Civil War, without antibiotics and vaccines, many clinicians of the day relied on techniques like arsenic, ...

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 ...

FORT SMITH -- The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education will help develop an assessment to train osteopathic medical students nationwide. The institution's Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine was ...

Meritus is the only osteopathic medical school in Maryland, and one of only three medical schools in the state. It is the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Osteopathic students had less success matching into orthopedic surgery vs. allopathic students. From 2019 to ...

Kansas Health Science University (KHSU) has appointed Eric Gish, DO, as dean of its Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (KansasCOM), Kansas' first osteopathic medical school, and has expanded the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There are now 207,158 DOs and osteopathic medicine students. Almost 70% of actively practicing DOs are younger ...

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 ...

The University of Northern Colorado is approved to begin recruiting and admitting students to its college of osteopathic medicine, which is the latest and most significant step in a five-year process ...

The federal government shutdown is exerting significant financial strain on the nation’s 44 osteopathic medical schools as the impasse approaches its fourth week, MedPage reported Oct. 17. The ...