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On West Virginia Morning, Appalachia Health News reporter Kara Lofton looks at the new law that allows advanced nurse practitioners to practice medicine without a supervising physician.

That’s on West Virginia Morning from West Virginia Public Broadcasting – telling West Virginia’s story.

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