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The Hermann Area District Hospital Health Fair held on Saturday March 24th 2012 was a great success!  It started at 7:30 a.m. and ended at 11:30 a.m. The Health Fair has been an annual event for three years now.  It is a free event set up to help people in bettering their health and learning more about what the hospital offers. They had 35 people attend the event this year, and hope to have an even higher attendance next year!

The staff at Hermann Area District Hospital and the Hermann Fitness Source is dedicated to helping our community improve their health and wellness.

Mercy Bariatric Center is hosting a free weight loss
seminar at 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, at Mercy Hospital Washington, 901 E. Fifth St. in Washington. The seminar will be held in the Tucker Conference Room on the second floor.

A long list of innovative approaches in caring for patients and "thinking outside the box"has landed Mercy on Becker’s Hospital Review of “61 Integrated Health Systems to Know.”

These include :

*links more than 200,000 patients to MyMercy – a free online service where patients
can track health history, see lab results, schedule appointments, contact their doctors and renew prescriptions from a personal computer or smartphone.

Eligible blood donors can give whole blood once every 56 days.  Now, the American Red Cross, the Hermann Area District Hospital, and St. George Parish are making that easier to remember by hosting blood drives in the Hermann area every 56 days.

Are you ready to get fit this year?  What better way to begin than to compete for $2000 worth of cash and prizes in the 9th Annual Middletown Baptist Church Biggest Loser Competition!  There are a lot of new aspects to the competition this year that the Biggest Loser Committee is very excited about.  This will be the first year that there will be a male and a female biggest loser named at the finale.

Johnson & Johnson has issued another recall of Motrin pain relievers, at least the sixth in two years.

It's part of a string of more than two dozen recalls of consumer health products, prescription drugs and medical devices over 2 1 / 2 years.

This time, it's because the pills may not dissolve and begin working as soon as intended as they approach their three-year expiration date. That could delay relief of pain.

The company says it's only recalling packages from retailers, not consumers, because there's no safety concern.

Wal-Mart has pulled Enfamil baby formula from their shelves following the death of a 10-week old Missouri newborn who died from a rare infection.

Wal-Mart and health officials are still awaiting test results, but the infant consumed the Enfamil and later died.

Wal-Mart voluntarily removed the newborn formula from more than 3,000 stores nationwide as a precautionary measure, though the government had not ordered a recall.

by Sheila Mahler
Full Contact Fitness, Troy

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