This continuing education activity is supported by an educational grant from McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division.
Patients with type 2 diabetes taking alirocumab (Praluent), along with the maximum tolerable dose of statins, saw a 49% drop in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol during a recent study.
Despite a remarkable decline in deaths due to cardiovascular disease over several decades, coronary heart disease remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States.
Urinary tract infections in women comprise a significant number of retail clinic visits.
Clinical response and inhaler technique should be reassessed at follow-up visits before readjusting procedures.
There is no cure for IBS, and its management should be individualized based on patient preferences, potential triggers, predominant symptoms, and symptom pattern and severity.
Tendinopathy can be an Achilles heel for both patients and health care providers.
Acute bronchitis is one of the most common diagnoses in ambulatory care.
This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from Nature Made Nutritional Products.
The World Gastroenterology Organization describes the prevalence of celiac disease as a “statistical iceberg†in today’s health climate.
What are the best ways for frontline providers to prevent the flu, colds, coughs, and sniffles despite our spending hundreds of hours each winter treating those very conditions?
The provider treating a patient with both upper respiratory infection symptoms and hypertension must consider the side effects and potential drug interactions of the variety of symptomatic treatments available.
To increase patient safety when treating infections, clinicians should be aware of clinically significant antibiotic drug interactions.
An individual living with diabetes has a 25% chance of developing a diabetic ulceration on their feet over their lifetime.
With as many as 1 in 12 US residents having asthma, retail clinicians are primed to help this patient population manage their chronic condition.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants play an important role in curbing childhood obesity, which can lead to a variety of health and emotional problems both in adulthood and childhood.
On any given day, it is typical to see parents waiting at doctor’s offices, urgent care facilities, and retail health locations with children who are experiencing a cough, as it is one of the most common symptoms for which patients seek primary care.
Retail clinics are the perfect location for conducting Department of Transportation medical examinations for commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Since the beginnings of modern medicine, experts have recognized a connection between diabetes and mental illness.
Diabetic retinopathy causes more losses of vision worldwide than any other eye disease, affecting 33% of the 285 million individuals suffering from diabetes.
This is a review, of and update on, assessing, diagnosing, and treating chronic sinusitis.
Antibiotics are medications used to kill or stop the growth of bacteria that cause illnesses, some of which may be contagious or life-threatening.
Everyone's had one and will have another: a common cold. It's the most common acute illness in the United States.
Houston Public Media today reported on a “smart trap†by Microsoft that Harris County Mosquito Control has been testing since summer 2016.
Clinicians now have a larger window of opportunity to prevent type 2 diabetes in at-risk patients.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its subtypes, such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema, affect more than 5% of the population and is the third-ranked cause of death in the United States.
Health care professionals often care for patients with diabetes who cannot, or will not, meet therapeutic goals. These patients seem to be "stuck" with elevated glycated hemoglobin (A1C) levels and unmotivated to adopt lifestyle changes to treat the disease.
The US and the world must appreciate the role of the pharmaceutical industry—the investigators, health care workers, and business leaders—who are rescuing the world from COVID-19.
If you’ve ever had the privilege of working for a growing organization, you know how challenging it can be. Chris Zook and James Allen, authors of The Founder’s Mentality, call this the paradox of growth: it creates complexity, which is a silent killer of progress.