Walgreens’ Take Care Health clinics have added nebulizer treatments to the list of services they provide. The clinics, which are run out of Wallgreens, currently offer a lot of routine services at a very reasonable price, including treatment for minor injuries or illnesses, adult vaccinations, physical exams, and a range of diagnostic tests including those [...]
Every day millions of patients make weighty decisions about their health, usually they rely heavily, if not entirely, on their doctor’s opinions. But do the doctor’s give out enough information so the patients can form useful opinions themselves? And do doctors listen to the patients about their preferences? Recent research suggests many don’t, as this [...]
An article in The New York Times today charges that that a “rogue cancer unit” at the veterans hospital in Philadelphia seriously botched 92 out of 116 procedures to treat prostate cancer. Dr. Gary D. Kao performed almost all of the botched procedures, which took place between 2002 and mid-2008, when the “problems” began to [...]
Steve Jobs has had a liver transplant, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. That report speculated that Jobs may have gotten the transplant because cancer had spread from his pancreas to his liver. He had surgery to treat a neuroendocrine islet cell tumor in 2004. If such tumors spread to the liver [...]
Should the U.S. government create a new public health plan that competes with independent insurance companies? That’s probably the most hotly debated issue in the current health care reform negotiations on Capital Hill, and last week both President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said “yes.” According to a Wall Street Journal [...]
MediClim sends patients with certain chronic diseases alerts about impending weather that may worsen their ills.
People who are uninsured and lose their job after March 31, 2009 are being offered free care from Walgreens and its partner Take Care Health Systems. The offer covers qualifying family members too, including a spouse, same-sex domestic partner or minor child, as long as he or she does not have health insurance benefits. Care is available at more than 340 Take Care Clinics across the nation.
Health care costs keep going up. More Americans with insurance will be expected to pay a bigger share of their healthcare costs this year and going forward. The number of uninsured has also been rising over the years, but recent blog posts by health care industry insiders suggest this problem is much worse than the official numbers suggest. Patients need to take steps such as budgeting for anticipated costs and talking about prices with doctors and hospitals.
