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First Aid Kit Essentials: What Every Home and Family Needs
First Aid Kit Essentials: What Every Home and Family Needs The First Aid Guidelines Changed in 2024. Your Kit Probably Didn't. By Aaron Asay, PA-C, DMSc This is not a shopping trip. It's a fifteen-minute audit of what's already in the box under your sink — and for...
Epinephrine & Inhaler Refill (Back to School)
Epinephrine & Inhaler Refill (Back to School) The September Asthma Surge Is Real. Here's Why You Need to Act in July. By Cayla McGrath This is one of the few pieces we write that has an actual deadline. Every September, pediatric asthma hospitalizations spike. The...
Your Kid Has a Sore Throat. No Cough, Running a Fever. Is This Strep?
Strep Throat vs. Sore Throat Your Kid Has a Sore Throat. No Cough, Running a Fever. Is This Strep? By Cayla McGrath A sore throat on a Monday morning. No cough, body feels warm, maybe the throat looks a little red. The questions that immediately follow: Is this strep?...
Everything You Were Told About Head Lice Is Wrong. Here’s What Actually Works
Head Lice Everything You Were Told About Head Lice Is Wrong. Here's What Actually Work By Cayla McGrath If you've ever gotten a lice notification from your child's school, you already know the sequence that follows: the check, the panic, the trip to the drugstore, the...
What Is Doxycycline Used For?
What Is Doxycycline Used For? One Antibiotic, Five Different Problems. Here's the Pharmacology Behind It. By Cayla McGrath If you've ever been prescribed doxycycline for a tick bite, then later for acne, then spotted it again on a list of malaria prevention options...
Food Poisoning vs. Stomach Infection
Food Poisoning vs. Stomach Infection Three Different Stomach Bugs. Three Different Answers to 'Do I Need Antibiotics? By Cayla McGrath 'Food poisoning,' 'stomach flu,' and 'stomach infection' get treated as essentially the same thing — and the prescription question...
For Clinicians
For Clinicians | Purulent vs. Nonpurulent Cellulitis
For Clinicians | Purulent vs. Nonpurulent Cellulitis What an Antibiotic Can't Do for a Wound By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Most of what goes wrong with a wound isn't fixed by...
For Clinicians | What Diseases Spread After a Hurricane, Flood or Fire
For Clinicians | What Diseases Spread After a Hurricane, Flood or Fire Ranked by the Surveillance Data By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, Jase Natural disasters that displace a lot of people (hurricane, flood or wildfire) can lead to...
For Clinicians | Medication Exposed to Flood Water
For Clinicians | Medication Exposed to Flood Water The FDA Rule and Its One Exception By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Today we are covering three things: what FDA actually...
For Clinicians | 2024 First Aid Guidelines
For Clinicians | 2024 First Aid Guidelines What Changed, and What Your Patients' Kits Still Get Wrong By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Your patient bought their first aid kit off...
For Clinicians | Emergency Preparedness in Older Adults
For Clinicians | Emergency Preparedness in Older Adults The Three Parts That Are Yours By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Most of your patients over 55 are doing well. Pickleball...
For Clinicians | Emergency Prescription Refills and 90-Day Fills
For Clinicians | Antibiotic Eye Drops for Pink Eye What to Do When a Patient's Pharmacy Is Closed By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C "I’m from out of town and I just took my last...