New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof yesterday wrote about the difficulties journalists face when reporting on scientific investigations of medical issues. His immediate subject in ''Do Toxins Cause Autism?'' was an early-release article for the journal Current Opinion in Pediatrics reporting on theoretical links between autism and ...

Walgreens, owner and operator of Take Care Clinics, was selected by Fast Company Magazine as one of the healthcare industry’s most innovative companies as part of the magazine’s ''Fast 50'' issue, which celebrates the world's most innovative companies. Other healthcare companies included were Kaiser Permanente, patient-community network Patients ...

Take Care Health Clinics announced today on the Oprah Winfrey Show that they're offering free blood glucose testing at their clinics nationwide tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Also, Take Care Clinics, located at select Walgreens stores, will offer free blood glucose testing daily through the end of February from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays ...

Most of my spare time is spent listening to and watching the healthcare reform debate. I know that I favor a single payer system but I also know many people do not. My intent is not to get in a debate about this, as I don't think it will happen. What I do think has a chance is a public insurance option. That is if everyone is not scared to death ...

Seventeen months ago when I opened Pace Clinic I was excited to be out on my own. No more working for somebody, I could set my own hours, come and go as I please, and do my own thing. I have thoroughly enjoyed working for myself. However, even though I no longer have (a) boss, I still work for now thousands of bosses (my clients). Sure, I can ...

On May 12, Representative Allyson Schwartz from Pa. introduced, with 106 cosponsors, the Preserving Patient Access to Primary Care Act of 2009. The bill aims to increase primary care access for patients and includes nurse practitioners as leaders of patient-centered medical homes. Stephen Ferrara, NP, who writes the blog A Nurse ...

What is up with retail clinics in May? Well, I have been out of action for most of the moth of April so I have missed the end of flu season and the push of sport physical exams that seem to come with spring. Living in Atlanta, the ''wanna-be'' capitol of allergies, I know sinus problems and other allergy problems are a big part of the patient ...

According to data published by Wolters Kluwer Health, patients are increasingly declining to fill their prescriptions as their wallets become thinner. The Wall Street Journal reported these findings today, showing that 6.8% of patients did not fill their brand-name prescriptions in the last quarter of 2008, an increase of 22% from the first ...

Presently the scope of practice in Retail Clinics is limited to minor acute illness. In the future there seem to be many areas of preventive care that the idea of convenient and lower priced would work well with. Blood pressures and offering other screening is used in marketing the idea of the retail clinic to the general public. It is just a ...

How many times have patients come to you for advice and after evaluation asked, ''Do I have to take a pill? Isn't there something natural I can do?'' Well, I have listened to their cries and have decided to hire a hypnotherapist/Reiki Master. This individual has 12 years experience in hypnotherapy and at least 5 years in Reiki healing. I ...