Doctors of osteopathic medicine have been around since the late-1800s but are gaining increasing attention due to their recent dramatic growth. While doctor of osteopathic medicine training was ...

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 ...

The sidebar to a March 12 Health & Science article about osteopathic physicians, covering their accreditation, said that, starting in 2015, residency programs for both medical doctors and doctors of ...

The percentage of doctors of osteopathic medicine continues to rise. That could be good news for rural communities suffering from a shortage of primary care. Physicians who hold a degree in ...

UNC received approval in early December to open the college, which will be the state’s third medical school. A commission on osteopathic college accreditation granted UNC pre-accreditation to begin ...

After 1,000 days of continuous planning, enrollment is now open for the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine for the fall 2025 semester. The school received conditional approval to operate in ...

With a tradition more than 100 years old, osteopathic physicians are hardly the new doctors in town. But the profession’s recent growth — in both training facilities and number of graduates — could ...

Osteopathy is a medical field that takes a holistic approach to the treatment of illness and injury. Considered a form of alternative medicine, osteopathy is based on the principle that illness and ...

A rendering of Duquesne University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, which will launch in the fall of 2024. The building will be located across from the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse on Forbes Avenue ...

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 ...

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 ...