Your (Dec. 26, Our Opinion) editorial recommending "quick treatment" for "our emergency room crisis" may run the risk of prescribing the wrong medicine. Three of the underlying causes you cited may be better, more quickly and more economically treated by other means. ...more

December 31, 2008

Get a flu shot for the price of two nonperishable food items — more if you're feeling generous — Dec. 15 through 20 at Bayfront Convenient Care Clinics in Pinellas County. The offer is open to ages 2 and older, and the food goes to the St. Petersburg Free Clinic. ...more

December 5, 2008

Hewey Walker felt lousy. The Dover man felt plenty sick — enough to miss a day at work. But not so awful that it was worth a full-fledged doctor's appointment. ...more

February 15, 2008

The influx of convenient care clinics continues in the Tampa Bay area. Walgreens will open nine Take Care Health Clinics in the Tampa market as part of a nationwide push to add 400 centers to its 6,000 locations in the next year. The local clinics should open by November, company spokeswoman Tiffani Bruce said. She declined to identify specific locations. ...more

October 3, 2007

TAMPA - The influx of convenient care clinics continues to rise in the Bay area. Walgreen Co. will open nine Take Care Health Clinics in the Tampa market as part of a nationwide push to add 400 of the centers to its 6,000 locations in the next year. The local clinics should open by November, said company spokeswoman Tiffani Bruce. She declined to identify specific locations. ...more

October 2, 2007