If you wake up in the middle of the night with a fever and vomiting, do you head to the emergency room or check in at your local urgent care center? Most people choose the ER because they don’t know much about walk-in clinics and what they do. Here are six facts that you might
Fairfield, Connecticut – A woman named Michelle Phelan went into the house of her neighbor and stole an urgent care medication that belonged to the neighbor’s child and exchanged it with a low-dose aspirin. The woman arrested was 41-year old Michelle Phelan residing in Mill Hill Road was charged of illegal possession of a controlled
Fremont, Michigan – A family said that Walgreens have been giving a teenager the wrong medicine for almost a month already because a prescription was filled incorrectly by the pharmacy. The error was only realized by the family of the teenager and the pharmacy when they went back to Walgreens in order to get a
Dover, Delaware – Health officials released a statement that Director of State for the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Kevin Ann Huckshorn already resigned on Friday. Huckshorn submitted her resignation last Friday with her letter dated October 31 saying that she has to leave her position at once in order to spend time
Worchester, Massachusetts – Public health experts have explored the use medical robots in a bid to stop the spread of the fatal Ebola virus. According to the scientists and engineers who came together at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, what’s great about medical robots is that they don’t get sick and they aren’t difficult to disinfect like
Washington DC – At the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in Washington, retired and associate director of the study of Traumatic stress Col. Steve Cozza talked about the mental health of army kids. According to the mental health and education experts, army kids have higher risks for mental disorders, but they are
Washington, D.C. – President Obama said requested Congress on Wednesday for $6.2 funding to fight the Ebola epidemic and to prepare urgent care near me and hospitals in the country against the possibility of spread in the U.S. According to the officials of President Obama’s Administration, $2 billon of the emergency fund would be allocated
Westchester, New York – A new law will already make it easier for kids with food allergies, asthma and diabetes studying in the state because they can now bring their life saving EpiPen medication while they are at school. Signed into law, the bill now allows for schools to have the life-saving medication administered to
Washington, D.C. – A report released by the Health and Human Services last Friday exposed that Medicare has been continuously paying for expensive medications as urgent care for patients who are already dead. The investigators have taken a look at the claims made from the year 2012 for medications that were used to treat HIV
Phoenix, Arizona – The Maricopa Medical Center has been chosen as the official hub for infectious disease training to treat illnesses that affect the county like the fatal Ebola. The designation will then allow Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) to treat confirmed communicable diseases like Ebola not only specifically in the county but its nearby
Fort Kent, Maine – The officials of Maine and Nurse Kaci Hickox have reached a settlement deal last Monday concerning her quarantine suit and now she’s permitted to freely travel in public. Hickox was the nurse who assisted in treating the Ebola victims in one of the urgent care clinics in West Africa. The settlement
Oregon, U.S. — The state of Oregon plans to closely monitor those who are at risk of having Ebola with the local health officials taking charge. The monitoring plan was published last Wednesday designating various categories according to risk–none, low, some and high. It is the local health departments that will take the lead in