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As the COVID-19 distribution continues, entities like pharmacies and clinics are working to keep up with demand. In Grand Prairie on Wednesday, people waited inside their cars outside Purple Hearts Primary Care Services on W. Pioneer Parkway for their shots. Family nurse practitioner Raven Modisette was among those helping with vaccine inoculations Wednesday. "We're out here in the cold and rain. We're doing our due diligence to help vaccinate 70-80% of America, so we can have herd immunity," Modisette said. "Right now, we're in a pandemic so we're asking people to drive up and be patient. We're categorizing and vaccinating with urgency." Dr. Sada Shah waited inside her car with her husband for more than four hours Wednesday. "Now, we're going to be fine. We won't be as scared when we get the second shot," Shah said. "Maybe we can get back to normal after a few months of being vaccinated." In Fo...

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Aurora Health Center in Pleasant Prairie. The company is expanding its footprint in Waukesha County with plans to construct a new clinic off Sunset Drive near the Shoppes at Fox River. Last updated on April 22nd, 2022 at 02:24 pm Advocate Aurora Health announced Thursday that it has acquired the former Master Z's building at Spring City and West Sunset Drives in Waukesha with plans to raze the building and construct a 15,245-square-foot clinic at the site. If approved by the city, the clinic would be just steps away from a 10,000-square-foot ProHealth Care clinic nearing completion at 1011 Spring City Drive, and just over a mile from a micro-hospital that Ascension recently opened at St. Paul Avenue and West Sunset Drive as part of the redevelopment of the former Fox Run shopping center. With an address of 1005 Spring City Drive, the Aurora clinic would offer urgent care, outpatient procedures, primary care, and obstetric and gynecological (OB/GYN) care, as well as p...

A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images Novavax on Wednesday said its vaccine targeting both Covid-19 and the flu triggered an immune response similar to its stand-alone shots against each virus, in an early indication that a combination vaccine targeting both viruses could prove effective though further study is necessary. Chief Medical Officer Filip Dubovsky, during a call with reporters, said the company's early phase clinical trial found that up to 25 micrograms of the Covid formulation combined with up to 35 micrograms of the flu formulation triggered a promising level of protective antibodies. "What we demonstrated in this study is we were able to get the immune responses really comparable to what the individual vaccines did prior to combination," Dubovsky said. Participants in the phase o...

Dr. Juliet Breeze was watching her four kids splash in the pool in their southwest Houston home, when she saw her son pop up from underwater and start screaming, clutching his ear. Breeze, a primary care doctor, recalls thinking, "Oh, gosh, he blew his ear drum." It was Saturday and the pediatrician's office was closed, so she took him to a freestanding emergency room in a strip mall. She figured it couldn't be that expensive. Then, a few weeks, she was billed about $1,000 for a five-minute visit that would have cost $60 at her pediatrician's office. "I felt like there was something wrong happening. I realized patients like me, a mom of four, need to access medical care for non-life threatening things after work hours," Breeze said. "But there wasn't a good, trusted place for me to receive that care." That experience inspired Breeze to create such a place and launch a network of ...

Local Blogs By Diana Diamond E-mail Diana Diamond About this blog: So much is right — and wrong — about what is happening in Palo Alto. In this blog I want to discuss all that with you. I know many residents care about this town, and I want to explore our collective interests to help ...  (More) View all posts from Diana Diamond Uploaded: Apr 19, 2022 I don't know whether I should laugh out loud as I think about the iabsurdly long waits we now encounter in getting a doctor's appointment -- or bury my head in my hands and simply sob away. "We are now accepting appointments for October. Do you prefer morning or afternoon after the 14th?" This is a frequent refrain I hear when trying to get an appointment. "But this is April 19th! That's six months away!" "I know," the voice replies. "Our first opening is Oct. 14 at 4:45 p.m. Will that work? If not, we have one the 21st at 8 a.m. Or you cou...

​ Takeaway: Employers should use caution when requesting an employee's medical records and make certain that the requests are job-related and consistent with business necessity.  ​An employer's requests for medical records were job-related and consistent with business necessity under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided. The plaintiff worked for Norfolk Southern Railway Company as a locomotive engineer for 18 years. Locomotive engineers are subject to Federal Railroad Administration regulations regarding drug and alcohol use. In 2012, the plaintiff tested positive for amphetamines after a train he was operating derailed. He continued working but was subject to follow-up drug testing for five years. In 2016, he tested positive for amphetamines and codeine. He explained he was taking Adderall for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Tylenol No. 3 for a back condition, both by prescription. Norfolk Southe...