Ashley Blachford is a Project Manager at JUCM: Journal of Urgent Care Medicine. She focuses on various aspects of medicine and healthcare, including healthcare administration, patient care, public health, and consumer health, while also exploring topics related to alternative medicine and medical specialties. Ashley's insights and expertise have been featured in JUCM: Journal of Urgent Care Medicine.
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Ashley Blachford's coverage predominantly revolves around healthcare and pharmaceuticals, with a specific emphasis on urgent care, medical treatments, patient communication, and medical research. She often cites data in her articles.
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By: Ashley Blachford
Urgent Message: Identifying fall height and mechanism, while also relying on caregiver narratives, can help urgent care clinicians rule out severe pathologies and diagnose a toddler's fracture in ambulatory pediatric patients after a fall.
By: Ashley Blachford
Published on Citation: Buchanan SB, Cherven B, Dye B, Oratz T, Gettis M. Pediatric Vaccine Hesitancy in Families Seeking Care in Urgent Care Centers.
A 79-year-old female presents to urgent care complaining of sharp, severe lower back pain for the past two months. The pain began when she was bending over to pick something up from the floor and has not improved. The pain occasionally radiates to her flank area but not down her legs and she denies any bowel or bladder pattern changes. She tried acetaminophen, cold and warm compresses and rest without any relief. The pain worsens when she sits for long periods of time with slight improvement with rest. Her main complaint is persistent difficulty with bending, lifting, reaching, walking downstairs, and cooking. Physical examination reveals normal vital signs and bony tenderness to her lumbar spine spinous processes, most notably to L1 – L2. Neurologic exam shows normal sensation and 4/5 strength to all extremities.
By: Ashley Blachford
Published on A 64-year-old woman with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis, and obesity
Published on An 8-year-old male is brought to urgent care by his mother reporting a widespread, itchy facial rash.
By: Ashley Blachford
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved 4 updated 2026–2027 COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming respiratory virus season. All of the new formulations have been updated for XFG variant, according to
By: Ashley Blachford
Published on Advanced practice providers (APPs) have become increasingly important in healthcare's overall workforce strategy, especially in urgent care.
By: Ashley Blachford
Published on Some respiratory viral infections can be followed by weeks of persistent respiratory, cardiovascular, and functional
By: Ashley Blachford
Inhalants and their health effects deserve more study, according to a new analysis. Leveraging federal health data, researchers found that among 33,771 U.S. adolescents aged 12–17 years, 2.2% of them reported using inhalants such as aerosol sprays and nitrous oxide in the past year, as published in
By: Ashley Blachford
Published on Several states are experiencing a combination of unique human-and-wildlife encounters and highly publicized events involving potential rabies exposures from those animals.
