Retail Clinics

WOONSOCKET, R.I. As CVS Caremark's MinuteClinic passes the milestone of its first decade of delivering convenient access to quality care, and with the nation facing a historic expansion of the market for primary health care, MinuteClinic locations are poised to help primary care physicians handle the influx of 32 million citizens who will gain access to health insurance beginning in 2014, said Troyen Brennan, CVS Caremark chief medical officer, speaking at a Health Affairs Reinventing Primary Care conference on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

BETHESDA, Md. Latinos have higher rates of developing visual impairment, blindness, diabetic eye disease and cataracts than non-Hispanic whites, researchers that were part of the "Los Angeles Latino Eye Study" have found. According to a press release issued by the National Eye Institute on Saturday, these are the first estimates of visual impairment and eye disease development in Latinos.

NEW ORLEANS Researchers at the Mayo Clinic may have found a link between colorectal cancer and diabetes in older women.

The findings, which are being presented at the American Gastroenterological Association's annual meeting, Digestive Disease Week 2010, examined data from 37,695 participants of the Iowa Women’s Health Study, which enrolled women ages 55 to 69 years in 1986 and remains ongoing. Of these women, 2,361 reported a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes and 1,200 developed colorectal cancer.

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. McNeil Consumer Healthcare on Friday voluntarily recalled all lots that have not yet expired of certain over-the-counter children’s and infants’ liquid products in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration.

McNeil Consumer initiated the recall because some of these products may not meet required quality standards, though no adverse medical events have been reported, the company stated. “However, as a precautionary measure, parents and caregivers should not administer these products to their children.”

NEW YORK Patients with a kidney disease caused by diabetes that receive high-dose vitamin B therapy are more likely to have decreased kidney function and an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study found.

NEW YORK LiceGuard has developed an innovative, nontoxic method to detect and destroy lice.

LiceGuard's Robi Comb is a quick, electronic comb that detects and kills head lice, which then are combed out of hair. LiceGuard's Robi Comb and other all-natural products are supported by Healthy Child -- a nonprofit organization focused on reducing and eliminating chemical exposures from home products, furnishings and food.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. MinuteClinic and Catholic Healthcare West, the eighth-largest hospital provider in the nation, have entered into a clinical collaboration to enhance the healthcare services they provide in communities throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. A recent study by CVS Caremark and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield looked at e-prescribing data and found that not only are a significant number of patients with chronic illnesses not filling their prescriptions, but the issue of nonadherence also is larger than previously thought.