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Heat Exhaustion Symptoms: When to Go to Urgent Care Heat exhaustion sends thousands of people to clinics and ERs every summer — and most of them ignored the early warning signs for hours before they got there. With temperatures spiking across Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana this week, knowing the symptoms of heat exhaustion — and knowing when it's time to get checked out — can keep a ...

For most of human history, headache treatments ranged from strange to downright terrifying — drilling holes in skulls, strapping clay crocodiles to foreheads, and draining blood by the pint. Today, headache relief looks a lot different (and a lot less painful). Here's how far we've come, and what actually works when your head is pounding. How Did Ancient Civilizations Treat Headaches? Headach...

Hair Follicle Drug Testing for Employers: What It Is and How It Works If your drug testing program only uses urine screens, there's a detection window you may not be accounting for. Hair follicle drug testing extends that window significantly — and HealthCARE Express offers it as a walk-in occupational medicine service at locations across Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. No appointmen...

Does My Kid Need a Sports Physical? What Parents Need to Know Before School Starts School starts soon — and if your child wants to play a sport, most schools won't let them on the field without a completed physical on file first. It's one of those things that's easy to forget until it's urgent. HealthCARE Express offers sports physicals and back-to-school physicals every day of the week, no ap...

You Can Get a Pregnancy Test at HealthCARE Express — Here's Why It's Better A faint line on a home test is one of the most stressful things to look at. Is it positive? Is it a fluke? Do you take another one? Most women don’t realize there’s a faster, more reliable option right around the corner. HealthCARE Express offers pregnancy testing — including blood tests — at our clinics across Texas,...

What Employers Need to Know About Workers' Comp When an employee gets hurt on the job, what happens in the next 24 hours matters more than most employers realize. A missed step in the workers' comp process — a delayed report, a documentation gap, a slow evaluation — can turn a manageable situation into a prolonged, expensive one. Here's what you need to know to handle it right from the start. ...

What to Bring to Your Urgent Care Visit Walking into an urgent care clinic already means you're dealing with something — whether it's a nagging sore throat, a sprained ankle, or a kid with a fever that won't quit. The last thing you need is to slow things down because you forgot something at home. Bringing the right items with you makes check-in faster, helps our providers give you better care...

50 Years of Medicine: Celebrating Dr. Paul Meredith Fifty years ago this month, Dr. Paul Meredith received his medical license and stepped into a career that would touch thousands of lives. Today, he does that work right here at HealthCARE Express — and this May marks not only his 50th anniversary in medicine, but his 12th year as part of the HCE team. A Half Century of Healing — What That Ac...

Summer Heat Update: What We’re Seeing at HCE Right Now Heat-related illness is already climbing at HealthCARE Express clinics across the region, and summer is barely underway. Over the past two weeks, our providers in Texarkana, Shreveport, and across the Oklahoma City metro have seen a steady rise in patients coming in dehydrated, overheated, and — in too many cases — waiting longer than they...

UTI Symptoms: When to Go to Urgent Care If you’ve had a UTI before, you know the feeling — the burning, the constant urge to go, the pressure that won’t let up. Most urinary tract infections don’t clear up on their own, and the longer you wait, the worse they tend to get. If you’re noticing the symptoms, it’s worth getting treated today. Common Signs You Have a UTI UTIs are bacterial infecti...