Acupuncture offered

Acupuncture offered

BOARDMAN

Ohio Naturopathic Wellness Center, 755 Boardman-Canfield Road, Suite D3, Southbridge West Complex, if offering an acupuncture “happy hour” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday led by Valentina Khoury Dubasik, ND, LOM.. For information and reservations, call 330-729-1350 or go to OhioND.com. The cost is $20 per person.

Look Good ... Feel Better

SALEM

Women undergoing cancer treatment can learn techniques for looking and feeling their best during an upcoming session of the American Cancer Society’s “Look Good … Feel Better” program from 10 a.m. to noon April 19 at Salem Regional Medical Center, 1995 E. State St., in classrooms 3 and 4 on the hospital’s second floor.

During the workshop, trained volunteer cosmetologists help women cope with appearance-related side effects of treatment by offering assistance with makeup application, skin care, and hair and wig techniques. Light refreshments are provided. Participants should bring a t-shirt of any color that can be cut for a special project.

Pre-registration is required to receive a personalized makeup kit to use during the workshop. Call American Cancer Society at 800-227-2345 by April 5.

New cancer center

CLEVELAND

The new Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center houses all outpatient cancer treatment services in one location with the center’s team of medical and radiation oncologists, surgeons, nurses, genetic counselors, social workers and others all working together to improve patient outcomes.

The $276 million, 377,000- square-foot, seven-story cancer building, located on the north side of Carnegie Avenue between East 102nd and 105th streets, is designed with patient experience and empathy in mind, drawing on feedback from a panel of former cancer patients. Outpatient cancer services are also in the new building.

Store it Safe program

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (Ohio AAP), has teamed up with firearm owners, pediatricians and others to create the Partnership for Safety of Children Around Firearms, and a pilot program called Store it Safe, to encourage safe storage of firearms and educate families about safety issues.

The Partnership, founded on the belief that gun ownership is a personal choice. It will not engage in debating firearm owner rights. Members include the Buckeye Firearms Association, Black Wing Shooting Center and Kiwanis Club of Columbus, said Melissa Wervey Arnold, head of Ohio AAP.

The goals of the partnership are to prevent firearm-related, unintentional deaths and suicides among children and teens; change the approach in talking about firearm safety; Store it Safe; and teach children safety around firearms. The Kiwanis Club of Columbus has provided $10,000 to purchase gun lock boxes that will be handed out at 2 and 3-year-old well-visit check-ups in several Nationwide Children’s Hospital pediatric offices in central Ohio.

Free colorectal kits

YOUNGSTOWN/WARREN

ValleyCare Health System of Ohio is offering free colorectal cancer screening kits during March.

The kits are available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at Youngstown’s Northside Medical Center’s main lobby at the registration desk, 500 Gypsy Lane; and at Warren’s Trumbull Memorial Hospital’s Medical Professional Building across from the main hospital in the radiation oncology office, 1353 E. Market St., on the ground floor. The Medical Professional Building can be accessed by entering the driveway from Laird Ave. N.E. For information, call 330-884-1064.