Pharmacist Blog: Vitamin “D-Lemma”
Welcome to another installment of our “Vita-gram!” This month, I wanted to write a little about Vitamin D, what it’s good for, and how to sift through the OTC options…
Welcome to another installment of our “Vita-gram!” This month, I wanted to write a little about Vitamin D, what it’s good for, and how to sift through the OTC options…
Spring is finally here even though it felt like Spring for more than a few days last month! In the last Issue of the Ozzie Gram, I wrote about our…
Have you ever walked through the aisles of a drugstore and wondered why there were so many types of magnesium? The vast selection and product labeling can be overwhelming, leaving…
One of the most important things my dad taught me about running the family business was to connect with peers in the independent pharmacy industry. That way you can learn…
Recently, my son was on antibiotics, yet again, for a pretty severe ear infection. On Day 7 of his amoxicillin therapy, he woke up with a rash all over his…
When working on our plans for 2024, I wondered what my great-great-grandpa Louis Oswald was up to back in 1924. While my Grandmother, Grandpa Oswald’s Granddaughter, wasn’t born until 1933,…
Since early November, my kids have had ear infections, RSV, the flu, and upper respiratory tract infections (the image for this blog is them Christmas tree shopping with me… while…
It feels like an eternity ago that I was at my younger son’s two-and-a-half-year pediatrician visit. I was informed about the recent uptick in Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infections. In…
I imagine most of you have seen the news on the walkouts at the chain drugstores at the end of October. Some were calling it ‘Pharmageddon’ – chain pharmacists were…
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Melissa McLean, and I am the new pharmacy manager here at Oswald’s Pharmacy. I grew up in the southwest suburbs and…
With one month of the 2023-24 school year behind our belt, we should be bracing for cooler temperatures, right? It sure doesn’t feel that way as I write this! Let’s…
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you went there or struggled to recall someone’s name? Memory lapses like these can be frustrating, and as we age,…