Free blood screenings


December 15, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

Free blood screenings

LORDSTOWN

Mercy Health Youngstown, formerly Humility of Mary Health Partners, is offering free blood pressure, blood sugar and blood cholesterol screenings (finger stick) from 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Lordstown SCOPE center, 1766 Salts Spring Road.

Those wishing to take part should not eat or drink anything other than plain water for eight hours before the screening. Screenings are provided through Mercy Health’s Neighborhood Health Watch program and are first come, first served.

For information, call 330-824-2173.

Neighborhood Health Watch provides free health screenings at the Lordstown SCOPE center once a month. For dates and times, call 330-480-2011.

Additional free screenings

NILES

Mercy Health Youngstown, formerly Humility of Mary Health Partners, is offering free blood pressure, blood sugar and blood cholesterol screenings (finger stick) from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday at the Niles SCOPE center, 14 E. State St.

Those wishing to take part should not eat or drink anything other than plain water for eight hours before the screening. Screenings are provided through Mercy Health’s Neighborhood Health Watch program and are first come, first served.

For information, call 330-544-3676. Neighborhood Health Watch provides free health screenings at the Niles SCOPE center once a month. For dates and times, call 330-480-2011.

Holiday stress help

BOARDMAN

Tips for dealing with holiday stress are offered by Meridian HealthCare’s “Now You Know” program at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Boardman Branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, 7680 Glenwood Ave.

The program, sponsored by Meridian and the library, features Julie Lenyk, director of Meridian HealthCare’s adult residential services, who will discuss dealing with stress through mindfulness.

Lenyk will help identify the causes of stress and discuss how to reduce it, how mindfulness plays into the equation, and simple exercises to do at home or work. There will be a question-and-answer session after the program.

Blood screenings

CORTLAND

Mercy Health Youngstown, formerly Humility of Mary Health Partners, offers free blood pressure, blood sugar and blood cholesterol screenings (finger stick) Dec. 22 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Cortland SCOPE center, 125 N. Bank St.

Those wishing to take part should not eat or drink anything other than plain water for eight hours before the screening. Screenings, provided on a first-come, first-served basis, are provided through Mercy Health’s Neighborhood Health Watch program. For information, call 330-637-3010.

Neighborhood Health Watch provides free health screenings at the Cortland SCOPE center once a month. For dates and times, call 330-480-2011.

Passed nicotine act

WASHINGTON, D.C.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, announced that the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act, which he co-sponsors, has passed in the U.S. Senate. If passed by the House, the bill would help protect children from accidental poisonings and death from liquid nicotine.

The legislation will require child safety packaging for all liquid nicotine containers to protect children from accidental poisoning and even death due to liquid-nicotine poisoning, said Brown.