Life on the cutting edge: Groundbreaking stem cell research into Lou Gehrig’s disease (BPT) – On July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig said goodbye to the crowd at Yankee Stadium: “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the…
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Spring is in the air, and the flu is in the Northeast: How to stay healthy
Spring is in the air, and the flu is in the Northeast: How to stay healthy (BPT) – Although the peak of cold, cough and flu season may have ended, this spring brings a second spike of flu activity to the Northeast region, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In fact,…
6 steps to control your blood pressure
6 steps to control your blood pressure (BPT) – A routine doctor’s appointment often involves a health professional checking your blood pressure. The screening is not painful or stressful and typically takes less than a minute to measure. However, the results of this simple test may identify a condition that, when managed, could help reduce…
Keeping Children Safe from Medicine Poisoning
Children’s health concern: Every minute poison control answers a call about young kids getting into medicine (BPT) – Most parents and grandparents know that keeping medicine out of children’s hands is important. But every minute a poison control center answers a call about a young child getting into medicine, and every 8 minutes a child…
O’Brien Pharmacy Launches Medicine-On-Time
We recently added a new offering for our pharmaceutical customers, Medicine-On-Time. Medicine-On-Time is a prescription management system that makes life easier for those taking multiple prescriptions. With Medicine-On-Time, multiple prescriptions for a single person are pre-sorted and loaded into individual packages labeled with that person’s name, the prescription information, and the date each package’s contents…