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H1N1 Shots Available at PPWW
H1N1 Vaccine Now Available at Many Western Washington Planned Parenthood Health Centers
If you’re wondering where you can get the H1N1 (or Swine Flu) vaccine today, look no further than a Planned Parenthood health center in western Washington, and it will only cost you $15.
The vaccine is available on a first-come-first-served basis for people eleven years old and older. No appointment is necessary.
PPGNW health centers will carry both the nasal spray version of the vaccine as well as the one administered by injection (shots). The CDC has also emphasized that pregnant women are at particular risk with H1N1. Only the injection form of the vaccine has been approved for pregnant women.
To find a PPGNW health center nearest you, call (800) 230-PLAN (7526), or go to http://www.ppgnw.org/locations
Breast Cancer Awareness Month May Be Over… But what a great reminder!
Ethical Challenges in a Time of Miracles- A Brown Bag
Brown Bag Lecture Series is Moving Up a Week!
Join me next Wednesday November 18th in MCC Room 303 for an engaging discussion of Medical Ethics with our very own H&S Instructor Dick Levin
ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN A TIME OF MIRACLES
A Brownbag talk stressing the need for the heart to be as engaged as the mind when confronting some of the technological advances in the field of public health
OR, put it in a simpler way…
Just because we CAN do something, does that mean we SHOULD do it?
Feel free to bring your lunch to this casual noontime talk.
Free Cornish Shopping Bags for all participants!
November is Quit Month-Consider it!
Did you know that nicotine is actually more addictive than heroin?
Surgeon General Coop (1988)1
Or that smoking just four cigarettes can give a person a 90% chance of becoming addicted and have them smoking for 40 years?
British Journal of Addiction (February 1990)2
Or that smoking kills more Americans each year than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.
American Cancer Society3
The more you learn about tobacco, the better choices you can make. This section is designed to give you the facts and figures you’ll need to become more informed and better armed to take up the fight against tobacco. Because after all, when it comes to tobacco, ignorance is not bliss, it’s a killer!
Did you know?
That second hand smoke causes between 35,000 and 40,000 deaths annually?
Did you know that second hand smoke contains over 60 known cancer causing ingredients?
Ready to quit yet? It’s time to get ready for the Great American Smokeout November 20th.
Check out the American Cancer Society’s page for lots of great resources to help you kick the habit.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/subsite/greatamericans/Smokeout.asp