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Doctors Express News

  • Immigration Physicals Expedited at Doctors Express Danbury

    For those entering the country, and vacationing abroad, Doctors Express is now able to offer simplicity to the often complex process of the health care component of international travel, and the immigration and citizenship process. Because Dr. Thomas Brown, Medical Director of both Doctors Express Urgent Care Danbury and Doctors Express Urgent Care West Hartford […]

  • Urgent Care vs Emergency Room Survey

    We want to hear from you! We’d love if you can take a few minutes to complete this short urgent care survey. We’d like to gain insight on your thoughts on Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centers to help us serve you better.

  • Find Out If You Have Strep Throat: A Doctors Express Danbury Medical Minute

    At Doctors Express Urgent Care in Danbury we have a lot of people walking in with sore throats, especially in the winter months. Throat infections are common, but there is often confusion over whether you suffer from a strep infection, or a viral infection. How to know if you have strep throat? Strep throat is […]

  • Beat the Blues with These Mood Boosting Foods

    Do you experience a sudden change in mood, concentration, or energy during the winter? Have you been feeling more lethargic, cranky, or depressed than usual? Though it’s completely normal to have a bad or off day – especially when in stressful situations – if your feelings of depression persist well into winter you may be […]

  • Know the Symptoms of Hypothermia

    Let’s stay safe in this frigid winter weather. Watch our Doctors Express Medical Minute to find out how to know the symptoms of hypothermia and steps to take to treat it if you or a loved one has hypothermia. What is hypothermia? When exposed to cold temperatures, your body begins to lose heat faster than […]

  • Common Winter Health Complaints

    February can be a bleak month, filled with gray, dreary days and chilly, blustery nights. While the chill in the air can’t be blamed for bugs going around the office or school, the cold itself can irritate the body, causing minor ailments.   Each winter season, doctors here at AFC/Doctors Express find more and more […]

  • California Measles Outbreak Leads to Vaccine talk

    Another measles outbreak, this time hitting California’s Disneyland, has hit the U.S. and measles are spreading like wildfire. Our own Dr. Thomas Brown offers helpful information on how and why measles, which we in Connecticut thought we’d eliminated by a highly successful campaign of MMR vaccinations, continues to re-emerge in the U.S. even as MMR […]

  • Frostbite: Symptoms and Prevention

    Winter is the time for fun and games in the cold - from skiing to sledding to building snowmen. It’s important, however, to keep yourself and your family safe by knowing the danger of prolonged exposure to cold, windy weather.   One of the greatest risks of exposure to below-freezing winds and winter air is […]

  • Women’s Checkup Checklist

    January is a great month to focus on women’s health. It’s a new year, and time for a new start, health-wise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on cervical cancer prevention and raises awareness about the benefits of folic acid to kick off 2015. At AFC/Doctors Express, we thought we’d piggyback on those […]

  • Do I Have Bronchitis or Pneumonia

    Both bronchitis and pneumonia are very common in the winter months, and at our Danbury urgent care center, people walking in with bronchitis-like symptoms are often confused, for a good reason, as to whether they are suffering from acute bronchitis, or from pneumonia. Acute bronchitis and pneumonia share many of the same symptoms, and some […]

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