FREE HEALTH SCREENINGS TO BE OFFERED.Byline: Daily News CANYON COUNTRY -- Free health screenings will be offered Friday at a health fair presented by Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital at the Santa Clarita Activities Center. The fair will run from noon to 2 p.m. and offer screenings including height and weight measurement, blood-pressure monitoring, cholesterol measurement, body-fat analysis/body-mass index, pulse testing and carbon-monoxide measurement for smokers. The activities center is at 20880 Centre Pointe Parkway. Doctors will be available for participants to talk with about their own heart health, and dietitians will offer eating tips. Information on smoking cessation smoking cessation Public health Temporary or permanent halting of habitual cigarette smoking; withdrawal therapies–eg, hypnosis, psychotherapy, group counseling, exposing smokers to Pts with terminal lung CA and nicotine chewing gum are often ineffective. , sleep disorders Sleep Disorders Definition Sleep disorders are a group of syndromes characterized by disturbance in the patient's amount of sleep, quality or timing of sleep, or in behaviors or physiological conditions associated with sleep. , sudden cardiac arrest cardiac arrest n. Abbr. CA A sudden cessation of cardiac function, resulting in loss of effective circulation. Cardiac arrest A condition in which the heart stops functioning. and cardiac catheterization Cardiac Catheterization Definition Cardiac catheterization (also called heart catheterization) is a diagnostic procedure which does a comprehensive examination of how the heart and its blood vessels function. also will be available. |
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