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Pregabalin significantly improved pain management in individuals suffering from irritable bowel syndrome.

Researchers find that a significant proportion of nonemergency conditions can be managed at urgent care centers and retail clinics instead of the emergency room.

Some St. Jude Medical pacemakers have been failing in patients as early as 24 hours after a low battery alert.

Lawsuit cites alleged unlawful termination of employment.

Nurse practitioners express a desire to move from treating minor maladies to managing chronic disease.

A North Carolina physician assistant had a relationship with a 15-year-old boy that included sending explicit pictures and videos to the victim.

Tenet is expected to pay hundreds of millions to resolve criminal charges and civil claims related to alleged fraud.

Department of Health and Human Services seeks to expand the definition of patient abuse to include financial abuse.

Philip Esformes awaits bail on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and health care fraud.

Clinics on or near college campuses can expect students to stroll in with postweekend partying blues or exam stress. Retail health clinicians treat everything from nail fungus picked up in dorm showers to upper respiratory infections. They also counsel students whose first intimate sexual experiences have left them with genital ulcers or urinary tract infections.

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).

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

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

Medical procedures often generate sharps and other medical waste, so being prepared with a compliant process for disposing of those used needles, red-bag waste, and spill cleanup materials is important for your team, patients, and community.

The loss of employer-provided insurance during the transition to retirement can have a negative impact on older patients’ physical and mental health as they enter their golden years.

The Affordable Care Act successfully decreased the number of uninsured Americans, and many of these patients require a spectrum of care services.

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.

A bill under consideration by the Pennsylvania State Senate would allow nurse practitioners to practice independently.

By the end of the summer, Johnson Memorial Hospital (JMH) will open its very first retail clinic at a grocery store located in Stafford Springs, Connecticut.

Google’s improved health symptom search feature may help patients avoid the hysteria of Internet-based self-diagnosing.

Target-based retail clinics in Maryland have officially been converted to MinuteClinics, bringing the total number of states with MinuteClinics inside Target stores to 4.

The billionaire founder and CEO of an electronic health record (EHR) system used by 1700 retail clinics nabbed the third spot on Forbes’ 2016 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women.

A new digital tool allows patients to view wait times at most MinuteClinic locations and hold a place in line through their mobile device.

MinuteClinic is partnering with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Palo Alto Health Care System to expand access to high-quality and convenient health care services for veterans in Northern California.

Target-based retail clinics in Virginia, Illinois, and North Carolina have officially been converted to MinuteClinics.

Nurse practitioners (NPs) looking to relocate may want to consider working in a city that offers the highest pay.

Walgreens is handing off ownership and operations of 27 retail clinics across the St. Louis region to its health-system partner SSM Health.

Physician assistants and nurse practitioners in Florida will soon be permitted to prescribe controlled substances under legislation signed by Governor Rick Scott.

MinuteClinic patients in Ohio can now virtually visit Cleveland Clinic clinicians through American Well’s telehealth platform.