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For more than 30 years, nurse practitioner Marcy Markes has cared for patients in intensive care units and small-town clinics across Missouri. She holds degrees from the University of Missouri and runs an allergy and asthma clinic in Columbia. Missouri has a serious health care access problem, and its residents would be better off if experienced pr ...

Here's a bureaucratic puzzle: What do you call a small, home-like birth setting staffed bymidwives, designed specifically to offer low-intervention, low-cost maternity care to healthy mothers with low-risk pregnancies? If you're the Alabama Department of Public Health, apparently the answer is: a hospital. That's the absurd regulatory position a ...

On a summer evening in Alaska, it's not unusual to want a drink while enjoying some entertainment — a local musician, maybe a screening of a classic summer movie like "The Goonies" or "Jaws." If you walk into a bar, you might be in luck. But until recently, if you walked into a brewery or winery, chances are you'd be out of luck. Not because t ...

Tomorrow Americans celebrate Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. It is difficult to fathom what it must have been like to be enslaved, but most of us have an intuitive sense of what it means to be free. The drafters of the Declaration of Independence captured it in the preamble by identifying our inalienable rights: "Lif ...

In California, dentists do it, and so do veterinarians. Psychologists, chiropractors, pharmacists, and physical therapists do it. Heck, even Dr. Phil, Dr. Laura, and Dr. Jill Biden do it. Despite their vastly different professions, all these people use the title "Dr." in their fields. So why then are Doctors of Nursing Practice prohibited from d ...

Unless you're a legal wonk, you probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about the Supreme Court's use of rational basis scrutiny. In fact, it's likely you've never encountered the term before. Whether you are familiar with it or not, the fate of many high-profile federal lawsuits, including the controversial Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health c ...

We all know small business owners whose livelihoods were disrupted, if not destroyed, by the pandemic. Ami Hill, owner of Muse Gallery OBX, a brick-and-mortar art gallery featuring local artists and artisans, was not spared. However, she was also not deterred. Successful entrepreneurs have a way of forging a path where none is obvious. Ami didn' ...