Jeannette Y Wick, RPh, MBA, FASCP

For several years now, home blood pressure monitoring devices (HBPMD) have been inexpensive and reliable.

Up to 70% of Americans contract athlete’s foot at some time in their lives.

Common inhalers and the things health care providers need to know about them.

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017 guideline revised to make several significant changes.

Retail health clinicians need to be mindful of “clinical inertia, or the failure to intensify treatment in the face of unacceptable glycemic control.

Contact dermatitis—recognizable for its localized rash or skin irritation—follows either exposure to allergens (allergic contact dermatitis) or irritants (irritant contact dermatitis).

Study examined the use of urgent care clinics and retail-based clinics among young patients.

Clinicians should approach low back pain conservatively.

The effect of nurse practitioners and physician assistants on the delivery of care to low-income individuals.

It's easy to spot headache sufferers—they wander in the OTC aisle examining labels, looking distraught and fatigued.

This is the time of year when more patients present with vague—and annoying—otic complaints.

Post-polio syndrome affects polio survivors 30 to 40 years after they've recovered from their initial poliomyelitis.

Five herbal and nutritional supplements of great interest to retail health clinicians.

Conjunctivitis is an inflammatory but nontraumatic eye complaint.

Conjunctivitis—or pink eye—is an inflammatory but nontraumatic eye complaint, and many people head to the emergency department for treatment even though they don't need to.

Low health literacy, financial instability, and lack of social support promote poor adherence.

Clinicians rely on a limited number of drugs to help patients with type 2 diabetes.

Women with bipolar disorder are at high risk for a mood episode in the immediate postpartum period.

Norovirus is one of the most contagious causes of gastrointestinal illness known to man. Among the very young, the very old, and the immunocompromised, norovirus infection can be severe and life-endangering. Because more than 80% of norovirus infections occur between November and April, it’s time for clinicians to prepare.

With the Summer Olympics finished and the athletes home again, this seems like a good time to talk about doping, or the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).

Some patients, armed with information from direct-to-consumer advertising, Internet browsing, or a recommendation from a friend or relative, ask for specific medications.

Retail health care clinicians can be proud that their work is reducing the load at emergency rooms.

Patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia often have difficulty communicating.

As a preventive measure against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Rio 2016 Olympics organizers have given athletes 450,000 condoms, or an average of 42 per competitor.

Most patient care needs in the evening or night are neither complex nor urgent.

Amid the many issues retail health providers must juggle, it’s easy to forget to focus on a critical task: safety.

Algorithms are effective ways to follow and communicate instructions in both health care and cooking. These strategies—used by clinicians the same way cooks use recipes—are step-by-step instructions that walk you through the evidence-based way to solve a problem or perform a task.

Patients with varying degrees of self-care abilities seek attention in retail health clinics for many different wound types, such as acute abrasions, lacerations, contusion, punctures, avulsions, burns, or ulcers.

Jogger’s heel, tennis heel, and policeman’s heel are common names for a common problem. All of them are actually plantar fasciitis, and approximately 1 million Americans visit health care providers every year because they have inexplicable—and often excruciating—pain in their feet.