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Walgreens opens first of six walk-in health clinics
Bizjournals.com, NC -
The first group of what could be six walk-in medical clinics at Wichita Walgreens locations have opened, the company announced Tuesday. Take Care Health ...
Take Care Clinics Open at Three Walgreens in Wichita Earthtimes (press release)
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Increased Popularity of Medical Tourism Affects Health Care ...
Kaiser network.org, DC -
More US patients have begun to travel abroad or visit retail clinics for medical services, practices that could reduce expenses for consumers and health ...
Americans look abroad to save on health care
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Aug 3, 2008
Some small, independent groups such as SmartCare Health Clinics have shut down, but retail giant Wal-Mart recently signed deals with RediClinic and various ...
Take Care Health Systems Nurse Practitioner Appointed to the ...
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
Take Care Clinics are professional, walk-in health care clinics located at 191 Walgreens drugstores in 14 states, including 12 in the Greater Kansas City ...
Walgreens clinics are delayed The Wichita Eagle
Walgreens Launches Quarterly E-Newsletter Dedicated to People ... MarketWatch
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SF pushes legislation to promote good health
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Aug 4, 2008
San Francisco famously became the first city in the nation to attempt to provide universal health care to its residents and requires employers to provide ...
Health-Care Reform, Corporate-Style
BusinessWeek - Jul 29, 2008
"We're talking about a microcosm of health-care reform," says Hal Rosenbluth, president of Walgreen's health and wellness division. ...
Walgreens July Sales Increase 10.7 Percent
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - Aug 4, 2008
Its Take Care Health Systems subsidiary manages 191 convenient care clinics at Walgreens drugstores. Franchisees of Option Care, Inc., a wholly-owned ...WAG
City adds a doctor referral service
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 1, 2008
Two major drugstore chains, CVS and Walgreens, are seeking licenses from the state Department of Public Health to open clinics. Only Walgreens, though ...
Walgreens-OptionCare Announces Joint Venture with Idaho-Based MedNow
MarketWatch - Aug 1, 2008
In addition to home care services, Walgreens Health Services assists pharmacy patients and prescription drug and medical plans through Walgreens Health ...
Walgreens July Sales Increase 10.7 Percent
Business Wire (press release), CA - Aug 4, 2008
Its Take Care Health Systems subsidiary manages 191 convenient care clinics at Walgreens drugstores. Franchisees of Option Care, Inc., a wholly-owned ...WAG
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[BOOK] Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation -
DB Smith - 1999 - books.google.com
... In Walgreen's or Woolworth's we'd see something ... Post-Reconstruction Health Care The
plantation system of ... and migration to southern urban centers began to take ...

[BOOK] Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men
M Scarce - 1999 - books.google.com
... Gay and lesbian health clinics continue to devote the vast majority of their resources
to the needs of gay men, yet an important distinction needs to be made ...

[BOOK] The Mental Health Professional and the New Technologies: A Handbook for Practice Today -
MM Maheu - 2004 - books.google.com
... popu- lations. Chapter 8 examines technologies that help one manage a practice
or operate a mental health clinic. It describes how ...

Transnational Health Resources, Practices, and Perspectives: Brazilian Immigrant Women's Narratives -
DAKH Messias - Journal of Immigrant Health, 2002 - Springer
... my body?like the problem with the [ovarian] cyst, and other little health problems
start ... But when I first got here, I?d go straight to Walgreen?s, and I ...

Community-Based Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening Through the United States Mail, San Francisco. -
PJ BLOOMFIELD, C KENT, D CAMPBELL, L HANBROOK, JD … - Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2002 - stdjournal.com
... By avoiding the stigma of clinic attendance and ... July 1999) and with the USPS/Centers
for Disease ... letter explaining the project, basic health information about ...

A Katrina Experience: Lessons Learned -
M Currier, DS King, MR Wofford, BJ Daniel, R … - The American Journal of Medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
... Emergency Management agencies. Health department. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Director of clinic physical facility. ... Local medical clinics. ...

[PDF] Negative pregnancy tests in urban adolescents: an important and often missed opportunity for … -
AM Daley, LS Sadler, JM Leventhal, PF Cromwell, HD … - Pediatr Nurs, 2005 - pediatricnursing.net
... Yale New Haven Hospital Adolescent Clinic and Hill ... References Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (2000). ... Journal of Adolescent Health, 33, 79-83. ...

FORECASTING THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE IN OECD NATIONS AND CHINA -
RW Fogel - Contemporary Economic Policy, 2003 - Blackwell Synergy
... Fogel: NBER and Director and Charles R. Walgreen Dis- tinguished ... in the country,
not just in the local clinics). Health care is not a homogeneous good, all of ...

The State of E-Commerce in Health: An Examination, Diagnosis, and Prognosis -
P Whitten, C Steinfield - The Internet And Health Care: Theory, Research, And Practice, 2006 - books.google.com
... walgreens . ... In a 2000 survey of college health clinics in which 88 health centers
responded, 63.6% used some form of computer-mediated means to communicate ...

The Rise of In-Store Clinics--Threat or Opportunity? -
R Bohmer - New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 - content.nejm.org
... The Little Clinic Louisville, Kentucky 14 Locations in ... to address other concom- itant
health issues may ... is fragmented, with different clinics or clinicians pro ...

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Walgreen to open more in-store health clinics

Walgreen Co., the largest U.S. drugstore company in terms of revenue, on Monday said it plans to open more health clinics within its drugstores, marking the latest move by a pharmacy chain to offer health services that go beyond filling prescriptions.

Earlier this month, CVS Corp., the largest chain in terms of the most stores, said it plans to buy MinuteClinic, the biggest operator of retail-based health clinics in the United States, a move that will help it expand offerings for customers at its drugstores. Walgreen, based in Deerfield, Illinois, opened 10 Health Corner Clinics in the Kansas City market last week and plans to open nine more in the St. Louis area later this summer. On Monday, it also said it plans to open at least a dozen of the clinics in each of the Atlanta, Chicago and Las Vegas markets later this year, starting with Chicago this fall.

The clinics offer diagnosis and treatment of routine medical conditions, as well as screenings for conditions such as diabetes and vaccinations for flu, hepatitis B, meningitis and tetanus/diphtheria.

There are currently 83 MinuteClinic locations in 10 U.S. states. Sixty-six of those are located in CVS stores.

Walgreen is partnering with InterFit Health (RediClinic) in Atlanta, Take Care Health in Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis, and Pinnacle EasyCare in Las Vegas.

The clinics offer services for insured patients, usually at the same price as an office visit co-pay, and offer uninsured patients services below the cost of a typical emergency room or out-of-pocket physician's office visit.

Health insurance tied to lower chlamydia risk

Young U.S. adults with health insurance are less likely than their uninsured counterparts to have the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, a national study shows.

Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STD in the U.S., with teenagers and young adults at greatest risk. The infection frequently causes no symptoms, but in women it can lead to long-term complications like pelvic inflammation and infertility. Because of this, experts recommend that all sexually active women younger than 25 get yearly screening for chlamydia.

Young people with health insurance, say the authors of the new study, may be more likely to get regular screening and treatment with antibiotics, which would also keep them from spreading the infection. They may also simply be more aware of chlamydia and how to lower their risk.

Of the more than 9,300 18- to 27-year-olds in the current study, those who consistently had health insurance during the past year had a lower prevalence of chlamydia. Among men, 6.5 percent of those who lacked insurance for the whole year had chlamydia, versus just over 3 percent of men who were continuously insured. The corresponding numbers for women were 7.5 percent and just under 5 percent, according to the researchers, led by Dr. William M. Geisler of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In general, black, Hispanic and Native American participants were less likely to be continuously insured, and they also had higher chlamydia rates than Asian Americans and whites, the team reports in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases. But even with race factored in, men without health insurance still had a higher risk of chlamydia infection. Among women, the link between insurance and higher chlamydia risk was weakened when racial disparities were considered. For both men and women, chlamydia rates were lower among those who usually went to a primary care doctor for care, rather than a hospital emergency room, clinic or other site -- a decision that's often driven by whether a person has health insurance. According to Geisler's team, the findings suggest that greater health coverage among young U.S. adults would help lower their chlamydia rates, through better access to screening, treatment and counseling on risk reduction.

Of the young adults in their study, 20 percent went without health insurance for the entire year, while another 20 percent lacked coverage for some portion of the year.

Smokeless tobacco use increases cataract risk

Using snuff or chewing tobacco is associated with an increased likelihood of developing cataracts, Indian researchers report

Dr. Prema Raju of the Vision Research Foundation, Sankar Netralaya, Chennai and colleagues evaluated tobacco use among 3924 adults from rural areas. In all, 1705 used tobacco in various forms.Nine hundred subjects, mainly women, used smokeless tobacco -- either as snuff or for chewing -- while 731 smoked tobacco predominantly in rolled cigarette-style bidis. The remainder used both forms.

Overall, tobacco users had 72 percent higher prevalence of cataracts, the team reports in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. However, the prevalence of cataracts was more than twice as great among those using the smokeless forms as compared to smokers

Also, cataracts affected nine times more heavy users of smokeless as compared to heavy smokers, the researchers report.

Dr. Raju mentioned to Reuters Health that smokeless tobacco users have three-times higher levels of cadmium in their blood than non-users. Cadmium present in tobacco inactivates superoxide dismutase, an antioxidant, resulting in oxidant damage to the lens of the eye.
 
 
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