The Highmark Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2016-2017 Creating a Healthy School Environment Grant and Awards Program, which will make available a total of $375,000 for schools grades K-12 in Pennsylvania ($300,000) and West Virginia ($75,000). The goal of the program is to create healthier school environments that experience positive, sustainable and lasting change through comprehensive strategies.
Read more...The Center for Fitness and Health recently introduced RC21X, an advanced brain health game and performance monitoring tool that enables a person to check on the performance of his or her brain and compare the results to what is identified as normal for that individual.
The self-administered game takes about 12 minutes to complete on any computer that has an Internet connection. RC21X features 15 modules that target different areas of brain performance.
Read more...It is common knowledge that early cancer detection saves lives. Monongahela Valley Hospital now has a new tool that aids physicians in the early detection of lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. It kills more Americans each year than breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 224,000 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer each year. The good news is that with early detection, the survival rate increases from 15 percent (stage IV) to as high as 92 percent (stage I).
Read more...Monongahela Valley Hospital (MVH) cancer patients can truly “ring” in the New Year thanks to Mrs. Chester, a two-time breast cancer survivor, former MVH cancer patient and current MVH employee.
Read more...Locust Grove Senior Living, 4043 Irene Street, West Mifflin, will be hosting a blood drive. The blood drive will take place on Thursday, February 25, 2016 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. onsite. Donors should go to the Personal Care Living Room on the 2nd floor.
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