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Jose Chavez Gonzalez was working construction but had eight years of medical training in El Salvador. A UCLA program finds its candidates working in warehouses, meat packing plants and behind the counter at McDonalds.

Stores in 18 states to use nurse practitioners, physician assistants to expand services to include diagnosis and treatment for chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma.

A clinic in a Camden, N.J., apartment building makes slow progress persuading patients not to use hospital emergency rooms for primary care.

Quinnipiac University in Connecticut is recruiting its first class for the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, with an eye toward meeting the coming demand for more primary care physicians.

To save money, some cut procedures, such as labor and delivery services, but a growing number are forced to close.

For years, osteopathic physicians were viewed differently than their medical-doctor counterparts, but this distinction is disappearing.

The growing number of osteopathic doctors could help fill the primary care niche in medically underserved areas.