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SubscribeMedia Advisory: How Wide is a Metre? Share the Road Campaign to Launch in Komoka
The London Middlesex Road Safety Committee will launch its new Share the Road awareness campaign this Thursday outside the Komoka Wellness and Recreation Complex in Middlesex Centre. The campaign is aimed at both drivers and cyclists and highlights the need to provide a space of at least one metre between bicycles and motor vehicles using public roadways.
New Program Aims To Prevent Overdose Deaths in London
London, ON – According to the Chief Coroner of Ontario, 41 people in London and Middlesex County died of prescription opioid drug overdoses in 2012, more than triple the figure from 2011, and double the provincial rate. The human and health-related costs associated with overdose have reached a tipping point, requiring a response from community organizations committed to harm reduction and health promotion. Starting in June, London InterCommunity Health Centre, Regional HIV/AIDS Connection (RHAC), the Middlesex-London Health Unit and the London Area Network of Substance Users (LANSU) will roll out a program to distribute naloxone in the community. Naloxone is a fast-acting, safe and proven opioid overdose-reversing medication.
Skin Cancer Prevention Act Increases Protection For Youth
Starting today, it’s lights out for one of the biggest cancer risk factors for Ontario youth. Ontario’s Skin Cancer Prevention Act, the new provincial law that bans tanning bed operators from providing ultraviolet light treatments to anyone under the age of 18, came into effect today. The World Health Organization has classified tanning beds in its highest cancer risk category, which includes asbestos and tobacco. The Act also requires tanning bed operators to ask for identification from anyone who appears to under the age of 25.
[Upcoming] Nicotine Replacement Therapy Workshops
Do you want to quit smoking? The Middlesex-London Health Unit is hosting workshops in London to help you quit.
May is Speech and Hearing Awareness Month
Did you know? May is Speech and Hearing awareness month. It’s important to know if your baby can hear, and if your child is talking like other children the same age.
National Immunization Awareness Week: Vaccines are Your Best Defence
London, ON – National Immunization Awareness Week begins tomorrow and runs until Saturday, May 3rd. The week highlights vaccination programs as the best defence against infectious disease, preventing more deaths than any other health intervention.
Delegates Gather in London for National Conference on Healthy Schools
For the next two days, more than 400 educators, health professionals, parents, students and community members from across Canada will learn what it takes to make healthy schools and healthy communities. Entitled Coming Together: Supporting the Whole Child, the National Healthy Schools Conference is being held today and tomorrow at London’s Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre. The Conference will focus on the links between mental, physical and emotional health as well as physical literacy, and the role they all play in developing and sustaining healthy school environments.
Media Advisory: National Healthy Schools Conference Being Held in London This Week
The Ontario Healthy Schools Coalition is hosting Coming Together: Supporting the Whole Child, the 2014 National Healthy Schools Conference on Wednesday, April 9th and Thursday, April 10th at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre in downtown London. The Conference features leading speakers on current topics that play a key part in the physical, mental and emotional health of our schools and school communities, as well as more than 40 breakout sessions.
Challenges of Multi-Generational Workplaces Subject of Workshop
Finding strategies and approaches that unite and engage employees from multiple generations can present unique challenges for employers, managers and business leaders. That’s why the Southwest Region Public Heath Workplace Network and Western Region Workforce Planning Boards are holding a one-day workshop in Sarnia featuring Dr. Linda Duxbury, one of Canada's leading experts on workplace health.
Health Unit Salutes Dr. Bryna Warshawsky for Years of Service to Middlesex-London
The Middlesex-London Health Unit is saluting its long-serving Associate Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Bryna Warshawsky, as she departs the agency at the end of this week to assume a new role with Public Health Ontario. Warshawsky, who joined the Health Unit in 1994, will become a Public Health Physician at the provincial public health agency. In addition to her role as Associate Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Warshawsky is also the Health Unit’s Director of Oral Health, Communicable Disease and Sexual Health Services.