Foot screenings offered

Foot screenings offered
NILES - St. Joe's at the Mall, located next to Sears in the Eastwood Mall, is offering free foot screenings on Nov. 27 from 9 to 11 a.m.
Screening targets diabetics and those at risk for diabetes. Register by calling (330) 652-7542 or by stopping in.
Local doctor receives award for teaching
YOUNGSTOWN -- Dr. John Politis, former chairman and program director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Forum Health Western Reserve Care System, received the Master Teacher of Medicine award given annually by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Politis received the award, which recognizes those who have been active in teaching medical students, residents or peers for at least 10 years, prior to his death on Nov. 3.
Dr. Politis, who was a professor of internal medicine at Northeast Universities College of Medicine, had received 10 major teaching awards during the past 23 years, including the Master Teacher Award from the American College of Physicians earlier this year.
Dr. Politis received his medical degree from the University of Athens School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Western Reserve Care System and pulmonary fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine.
From 1979 to 2002, he was director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and medical director of respiratory therapy at the Western Reserve Care System.
Society honors consultant for public health work
Bonnie G. Hoppel, the Ohio Department of Health's Northeast District health education consultant for cardiovascular health in the Bureau of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction, received the 2006 Ohio Society for Public Health Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Education.
Hoppel, who has a master of arts degree in health studies and a bachelor of science degree in health and physical education, was an educator for nine years before going into public health education and service 17 years ago.
A certified health education specialist, Hoppel received the Ohio Public Health Association's Distinguished Health Educator's Service Award in 2004, when she was president of the Ohio Chapter for the Society for Public Health Education.
Hoppel, the wife of Columbiana County Commissioner Jim Hoppel, serves on the state planning Committee for Health Education in Ohio, and is a member of the Nutrition Dietetic Program Advisory Board of Directors for the University of Akron. She lives in East Liverpool.
Thanksgiving hours
AUSTINTOWN -- Forum Health's Austintown Immediate Care and Elm Road Immediate Care will be open for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries on Thanksgiving Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. No appointment is needed. Normal clinic hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Grief sessions
Catholic Charities Regional Agency of Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull Counties is offering two sessions on the topic of grief called "Holiday Workshop For Those Who Grieve." The sessions, conducted by Sister Pauline Dalpe, are on Nov. 28 from 4 to 5 p.m. at Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church school building, 175 Laird Ave. N.E., Warren, call (330) 393-4254; and on Nov. 30 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the agency building, 2401 Belmont Ave., Youngstown, call (330) 744-3320. The program is free and open to persons of all faiths.
A new danger
WASHINGTON POST
Botox therapy may be addictive, suggests research presented at a meeting of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons last week.
A psychologist at Britain's Derbyshire Royal Infirmary surveyed 81 Botoxees (88 percent female) and found: 40 percent had a compulsive desire to use it routinely; 50 percent resent people who criticize their use of it; and more than half said using Botox makes them actually feel younger.