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BLOOD DRIVES LUZERNE COUNTY: The Wyoming Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross hosts community blood drives throughout the month. Donors who are 17 years of age or older, weigh at least 1 10 pounds and are in relatively good health or 16 years old and have a parental permission form completed, may give blood every 56 days. To learn more about how to donate blood or platelets or to schedule a blood donation, call 1-800-REDCROSS (7332767). In addition to those listed below, blood drives are conducted at the American Red Cross Regional Blood Center, 29 New Commerce Blvd., Hanover Industrial Estates, Ashley, Mondays and Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m.; and Sundays from 7:30 a.m.-noon. Appointments are suggested but walkins are accepted. Platelet appointments can be made by calling 823-7164, ext. 2235. Blood drives also take place from 9 a.m.-noon on the first and third Monday of each month at the Hazleton Chapter of the American Red Cross, 165 Susquehanna Blvd., Hazleton. For a complete donation schedule, visit: REDCROSSBLOOD.ORG or call 1-800-REDCROSS (7332767). Area blood donation sites include: Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., WilkesBarre Blood Donation Center, 29 New Commerce Blvd., Ashley Wednesday, 1 1:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Best Western Genetti Inn & Suites, State Highway 309, Hazleton, and 1 1 a.m.-7 p.m., Waterfront Banquet Facility, 670
N. River St., Plains Township (both Pocono Raceway satellite blood drive locations). Thursday, 1-7 p.m., Pocono Raceway Seventh Annual Blood Drive Event, Pocono Raceway at the track located in Long Pond. Additional drive locations are available Wednesday and Thursday. Presenting donors will receive a free grandstand admission ticket to the Aug. 4 race events. Other prizes will be awarded. Reserve a spot by calling the Red Cross at the number above or online at redcrossblood.org/nepa/poconoraceway; 1-6 p.m., Nescopeck VFW, (Pocono Raceway satellite blood drive location). Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Wilkes-Barre Blood Donation Center, 29 New Commerce Blvd., Ashley; 1 1 a.m.-4 p.m., US Foods, 13 Rutledge Drive, Pittston Saturday, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m., WilkesBarre Blood Donation Center, 29 New Commerce Blvd., Ashley; 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 109th Field Artillery, 280 Market St., Wilkes-Barre. (“Good Turn for America” sponsored by the Boy Scouts) Sunday, 7:30 a.m.–noon, WilkesBarre Blood Donation Center, 29 New Commerce Blvd., Ashley Monday, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., WilkesBarre Blood Donation Center, 29 New Commerce Blvd., Ashley; 8:45 a.m.-2 p.m., Hazleton Chapter House, 165 Susquehanna Blvd., West Hazleton July 17, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., WilkesBarre Blood Donation Center, 29 New Commerce Blvd., Ashley; 12:30-6 p.m., VFW Post 4909, 403 Main St., Dupont; noon- 6 p.m., Thomas P. Saxton Medical Pavilion, 468 Northampton St., Edwardsville; noon-5:30 p.m., Highland Manor, 750 Schooley Ave., Exeter
Editor’s note: The complete health calendar can be viewed at www.timesleader.com by clicking the Health link under the Features tab. To have your health-oriented event listed, send information to Health, Times Leader, 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA18711-0250; by fax: 829-5537; or email health@timesleader.com
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HEALTH PEOPLE Edward J. O’Brien, professor of psychology and counseling at Marywood University, received the 2012 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Science and Profession of O’Brien Psychology at the convention of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association in Harrisburg. This annual award is given to a Pennsylvania psychologist for outstanding professional achievement in areas related to psychology, including teaching, research, clinical work and publications. O’Brien of Kingston was unanimously selected by the award committee made up of seven past presidents of the Pennsylvania Psychological Associ-
FREE CLINICS BACK MOUNTAIN FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: 6:30 p.m. Fridays, 65 Davis St., Shavertown. Volunteers, services and supplies needed. For more information, call 696-1 144. BMW FREE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: 6-8 p.m., second Thursday, New Covenant Christian Fellowship Church, rear entrance, 780 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Free basic care for people without health insurance and the underserved. Call 822-9605. CARE AND CONCERN FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Registration 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, former Seton Catholic High School, 37 William St., Pittston. Basic health care and informa-
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ation. His research investigates selfesteem, stress and coping and his projects include explorations in the underdiagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in children and adolescents. He has authored 14 publications during his career and these publications have been cited more than 500 times in scientific literature. He has also presented at national conferences and has been involved in seven grant projects that procured more than $2.3 million for programs at Marywood.
Health System’s Division of Cardiology. The award is given annually to an instructor who the students feel has served as an outstanding mentor, role model and teacher. Dr. Kathleen Moyer, recently joined Geisinger South WilkesBarre, a campus of Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, as a pediatric urgent care specialist. She will see patients in the pediatric urgent care Moyer center at GSWB on Church Street. Moyer recently completed a pediatric residency at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, and prior to that completed a pediatrics internship at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. She graduated from Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia.
Dr. Terry Bauch, a cardiologist at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center’s Richard and Marion Pearsall Heart Hospital, recently received the Bauch Teacher of the Year award from Geisinger
tion provided. Call 954-0645.
Friday, 190 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Wilkes-Barre. Primary and preventive health care for the working uninsured and underinsured in Luzerne County with incomes less than two times below federal poverty guidelines. For appointments, call 970-2864.
THE HOPE CENTER: Free basic medical care and preventive health care information for the uninsured or underinsured, legal advice and pastoral counseling, 6-8 p.m. Mondays; free hearing tests and hearing aid assistance, 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays; free chiropractic evaluations and vision care, including free replacement glasses, for the uninsured or underinsured, 6-8 p.m. Thursdays; Back Mountain Harvest Assembly, 340 Carverton Road, Trucksville. Free dental hygiene services and teeth cleanings are available 6-8 p.m. on Mondays by appointment. Call 696-5233 or email hopecenterwv@gmail.com.
WILKES-BARRE FREE CLINIC: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 35 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre. Appointments are necessary. Call 793-4361. A dental clinic is also available from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday by appointment. Call 235-5642. Physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, RNs, LPNs and social workers are needed as well as receptionists and interpreters. To volunteer assistance leave a message for Pat at 793-4361.
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through
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Awareness Month. It’s holding donor drives to collect cheek swabs (go to bethematch.org/ join to see where), and has launched a website, swabplusdna.org, to educate people about the donation process and dispel fears that might keep people from signing up. Though the traditional bonemarrow extraction process, which involves inserting a needle into the pelvic bone under an- To increase esthesia, is what people as- the pool of sociate with black donors, donating, in Be The Match fact three- has declared fourths of donations are July Africanthrough a less- American invasive proce- Bone Marrow dure in which Awareness peripheral blood stem Month. cells are removed from donor blood, which is then returned to the donor through the other arm. After either procedure, marrow and stem cells regenerate within the donor. People also can help by donating their babies’ cord blood, collected from the umbilical cord and placenta immediately after birth. Doctors request cord blood in 21 percent of transplant cases. Just1in 40 people who register ever gets called to undergo more tests; 1 in 540 goes on to donate. Given that blacks are far more likely than other ethnicities to have sickle-cell anemia, which a marrow transplant can cure, the need is pressing, Baird said.
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