A group of bipartisan lawmakers sent a letter to the Education Department urging it to add nursing to the list of “professional degrees,” which would allow students to take out more federal loans. New ...

Ulrich is the Lillian S. Brunner endowed chair in medical and surgical nursing, and professor of nursing and medical ethics and health policy, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and ...

The Department of Education under the Trump administration is restructuring federal student loans and capping the amount graduate students can borrow. Graduate students in programs classified as ...

A proposal from the Trump administration would exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees, a move that has drawn outcry from nursing advocates, who warn it could worsen the nation's nurse ...

Controversial changes reportedly proposed for nursing students by the Trump administration could affect healthcare nationwide, Chicago-area nursing educators warned. According to the American ...

Students practice with a mannequin simulating a patient at the Mt. San Antonio College campus in California. The shortage of clinical placements for nursing students has led some educators to argue ...

CT coronary angiography (CTCA) was found to be safe and effective for evaluating coronary artery disease in patients with a low-to-intermediate pretest probability of the disease. It demonstrated a ...

A commonly prescribed drug could be more effective than aspirin for long-term heart disease prevention. Analysis of nearly 29,000 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) suggests the blood thinner ...

The coronary sinus reducer (CSR), an hourglass-shaped stent that narrows the coronary sinus to increase coronary sinus pressure, has shown some promise in treating patients with refractory angina. But ...

Merrill H. Stewart, MD, Ochsner Health, explains misconceptions about stents and bypass surgery and highlights when cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) stress testing is most appropriate. It is ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I recently had a CT scan of my chest and abdomen for pain, and they made a note that I also had coronary atherosclerosis. What is this condition? Can medications help? Can it be ...