Why Become a Certified Medical Administrative Assistant? The healthcare field offers one of the leading areas of opportunities for career growth today. Within healthcare, specialized medical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover real estate, economics and cost of living. Medical assistants are one of the hottest occupations in the United States ...

Medical assistants will be able to administer vaccinations and other critical prescription shots legally but will be prevented from injecting patients with Botox and other cosmetic drugs, according to ...

No Botox injections. And now no flu shots. Medical officials learned last week that medical assistants had long been illegally administering the anti-wrinkle drug Botox. Now it turns out that the same ...

After Medscape Nurses posted Can I Delegate This Task to a Medical Assistant?, many readers submitted additional questions about the role of medical assistants. What can medical assistants do, legally ...

Medical assistants — who take measurements, draw blood and fill out documentation before a patient sees a doctor — are in high demand nationally and short supply locally. To remedy its shortage, ...