
Impetigo
With the start of school comes more opportunity for young children to spread illnesses among each other. We’ve heard of strep throat and staph infections, but have you heard of impetigo? Impetigo is a common bacterial skin infection that can produce blisters or sores anywhere on the body, but usually on the face (around the […]

Gastroparesis Awareness Month
Gastroparesis, also called delayed gastric emptying, is a disorder that slows or stops the movement of food from your stomach to your small intestine, even though there is no blockage in the stomach or intestines. Normally, after you swallow food, the muscles in the wall of your stomach grind the food into smaller pieces and […]

Back to school travel safety
It’s hard to believe, but it’s already time to kick off another school year—and time to remind our children how to get to and from school safely. These suggestions, from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will get your kids off to a great start. Riding the school bus School buses are the safest way […]

Travel tips for diabetics
With a few weeks left in the summer and more people traveling this year than last year, we thought it would be a good time to remind those with diabetes of how to take care and precaution when away from home. Depending on where you are headed, there may be specific vaccines and immunizations that […]

The Art of Compounding
Before prescriptions became mass produced with advanced manufacturing of the 1950s and ‘60s, nearly all medications were compounded by pharmacists. Afterwards, the pharmacist’s role as a preparer of medications quickly changed to that of a dispenser of manufactured dosage forms, and most pharmacists no longer were trained to compound medications. However, the “one-size-fits-all” nature of […]