Monday, October 3, 2011
Livingston hosts a second flu clinic at the Senior/Community Center on Oct. 5.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- L. Klonsky
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Monday, October 3, 2011
The second of Livingston’s two flu clinics will take place on Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Town nurses will be inoculating residents, in one shot, against three of the predicted influenza strains. For those thinking of foregoing the shot, here’s a sobering thought: the CDC estimates that between 3,000 and 49,000 deaths are caused or contributed to by the flu every year. The Nursing Department first offers the shot to first responders (police, firefighters, first-aid workers), town employees, people who are homebound, and public school teachers before offering it to the general public. Janet Traettino, nursing supervisor, told Patch that at the recent flu clinic in late September, about 450 people were inoculated. The flu shots are …
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Nursing Department is holding 2 clinics this fall. It's your turn Sept. 21 if your last name begins A-M.
You can laugh at all those people getting flu shots and label them as “overcautious” – that is, until you’re actually stricken with the virus. It’s not fun and, worse, the flu can be deadly. The CDC estimates that between 3,000 and 49,000 deaths are caused or contributed to by the flu every year. Fortunately, Livingston’s Nursing Department is available to help. On Sept. 21 and Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. town nurses will be inoculating residents, in one shot, against three of the predicted influenza strains: A/California/7/2009 (an H1N1-type), A/Perth/16/2009 (an H3N2-type), and B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus. Janet Traettino, nursing supervisor, explained that last year the town gave out 1,500 vaccines with the amount of people …
Friday, September 16, 2011
Livingston's Health Fair will offer free screenings on Saturday.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- L. Klonsky
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Catching a health problem early can make treatment easier, improve the prognosis, and lower health costs. That’s why the Livingston Health Department is proud to present its 17th Annual Health Fair this Saturday, Sept. 17, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the lower level of the Senior/Community Center. “Screenings are important for early detection,” says Dolores (“Dee”) Keller, Public Health Nurse and Health Educator who has been with the Livingston Nursing Division for its entire 18 years. The Health Department, which Nursing is part of, stresses how important blood screenings can be for early detection and intervention as they relate to diabetes, cardiac and respiratory illness and other diseases. Indeed, some blood work is being offered …
desiderata cacoethes
10:53 pm on Monday, October 3, 2011
thanks for this service... My elderly neighbors - a wonderful kind couple - have some interesting theories about the flu shot. Every fall they are urged by their doctors to get the flu/pneumonia shot and every year they refuse and every winter one or both of them falls ill with the flu... There's just no persuading them to get inoculated. Just don't want anything to happen to them when it couldve… more ›