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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...
National Parasites Outbreak: Cyclosporiasis
National Parasites Outbreak: Cyclosporiasis The Stomach Bug the Standard Test Misses By Cayla McGrath Three weeks of watery, cramping diarrhea. A few days that feel terrible, then a few days that feel almost like recovery — then back again. The standard stool test...
What Crowd Medicine Actually Looks Like — And What to Have Before You’re In It
What Crowd Medicine Actually Looks Like — And What to Have Before You're In It By Aaron Asay, PA-C, DMSc I've worked mass casualty events. I've been the person making triage decisions under conditions that don't look like a hospital, don't feel like a clinic, and...
For Clinicians
For Clinicians | The September Asthma Epidemic
For Clinicians | The September Asthma Epidemic Why the Controller Refill Matters More Than the Rescue Inhaler By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Right now your patients are buying...
For Clinicians | MenACWY vs MenB
For Clinicians | MenACWY vs MenB A Back-to-School Meningococcal Vaccine Refresher By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Fall is coming, and with that are newly minted college students...
For Clinicians | Strep Throat vs. Sore Throat
For Clinicians | Strep Throat vs. Sore Throat Do You Need Antibiotics? By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C Most sore throats don't need an antibiotic. Most of us already know that....
For Clinicians | Head Lice Myths
For Clinicians | Head Lice Myths Permethrin Resistance, and What Actually Works Now By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C A few years ago when I was working as a pharmacist a patient...
For Clinicians | Doxycycline Uses
For Clinicians | Doxycycline Uses Lyme Prophylaxis, Malaria Prevention, Acne, and the Doxy-PEP Debate By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Kristen Carpenter, PA-C We're continuing our series on the...
For Clinicians | The Family Emergency Plan Checklist
For Clinicians | The Family Emergency Plan Checklist The Medical Layer Most Plans Miss By Dr. Jamie Wilkey, PharmD — Director of Clinical Strategy, JaseMedically reviewed and edited by Aaron Asay, PA-C, DMSc, FIBODM, FAWM When disaster strikes, medical personnel in a...