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Health Calendar

11.8, 11.15 and 11.29

Free Blood Pressure Screenings

Where: H2U MountainView Office, 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 114

When: 10-11 a.m.

Details: 233-5474

11.8

Daddy Marines

Where: MountainView Hospital Lobby Classroom, 3100 N. Tenaya Way

When: 6:30-8 p.m.

Details: 233-5474

11.8, 11.15 and 11.22

Prepared Childbirth Class (three sessions)

Southern Hills Hospital, Medical Office Building, Room 222, 9280 W. Sunset Road

When: 6-9 p.m.

Details: 880-2700

11.9

Avoid the Holiday Blues

Where: Southern Hills Hospital Education Room, 9300 W. Sunset Road

When: 10-11 a.m.

Details: 880-2700

Lunch & Learn "Total Joint Replacement and YOU"

Where: H2U MountainView Office, 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 114

When: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Details: 233-5474

Getting to Know You

Open to seniors who may be new to town

Where: The SMA Lifestyles Center East, 5820 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100

When: 1 p.m.

Details: 797-2350

Veteran Benefits and YOU

Where: H2U MountainView Office, 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 114

When: 1:30-3 p.m.

Details: 233-5474

Epilepsy Support Group

Where: Sunrise Hospital Auditorium, 3186 S. Maryland Parkway

When: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Details: 731-8115

women's heart disease: a heart to heart talk

Where: Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center

Auditorium, 3186 S. Maryland Parkway

When: 5:30 p.m.

Details: 233-5300 (registration required)

11.9 and 11.16

FREE Medicare Counseling with SHIP Counselor

Where: H2U MountainView Office, 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 114

When: 9:15-11:15 a.m.

Details: 233-5474

11.10

Brown Bag Q&A with pharmacist

Where: The SMA Lifestyles Center East, 5820 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100

When: 9 a.m.-noon

Details: 797-2350

Lunch & Learn "Spine Health and YOU"

Where: H2U MountainView Office, 3150 N. Tenaya Way, Suite 114

When: noon-1:30 p.m.

Details: 233-5474

Tobacco Cessation Program

Where: The SMA Lifestyles Center East, 5820 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 100

When: 3 p.m.

Details: 797-2350

11.11

Adult Outpatient Diabetes Class: Medications

Where: Southern Hills Hospital, 300 W. Sunset Road

When: 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Details: 880-2700

Adult Outpatient Diabetes Class: Medications

Where: MountainView Hospital, 3100 N. Tenaya Way

When: 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Details: 233-5454

Adult Outpatient Diabetes Class: Medications

Where: 3101 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 100

When: 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Details: 233-5454

11.12

Delta Theta Boule ninth annual Boule Eyeglass Program

Free examinations and eyeglasses to needy students between the ages of 5 and 18

Where: Nevada Institute of Ophthalmology, 2800 N. Tenaya Way

When: 8 a.m.-noon

Details: 647-4798 or dmod@att.net

Prepared Childbirth Class

Where: Breast Center at Sunrise, 3006 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 250

When: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Details: 233-5437

Bariatric Seminar

Where: MountainView Hospital, 3100 N. Tenaya Way

When: 10-11:30 a.m.

Details: 233-5474

Breast is Best (Breastfeeding) Class

Where: MountainView Hospital Lobby Classroom, 3100 N. Tenaya Way

When: 2-4 p.m.

Details: 233-5474

11.12 and 11.13

bike ms: vegas challenge

Where: Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 W. Bonneville Ave.

When: 7:30 a.m. Saturday (100-, 65- and 30-mile routes; 7:30 a.m. Sunday (65- and 30-mile routes)

Details: 736-1478 or www.nationalmssociety.org

The Health Calendar runs Mondays. Information on health or fitness events can be mailed to Health Calendar, Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125 or emailed as a text file to healthbriefs@reviewjournal.com.

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