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SIMCOE, ON, JUNE 2, 2009 – On Monday June 8th, Dr. Rick Adachi, a leading international expert on osteoporosis will be speaking at a free public forum at Ruthven Park National Historic Site in Cayuga. Dr Adachi is the Director of the Canadian MultiCentre Osteoporosis study and also a professor in the Department of Medicine […]

CALEDONIA, ON – From May 25th to June 1st, 2009, the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s youth group, Fresh Heir will be assembling a display in the chain link fences located on Haddington Street and Caithness Street. The purpose of this event will be to educate the community about the dangers of flavoured tobacco products, with the […]

For over one hundred years, nurses have practiced in public health. The first public health nurses were in England. The United States and Canada started using nurses in public health in the early 1900’s. Public health nurses practice in a “setting without walls” as the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario puts it. They are anywhere […]

SIMCOE, ON, MAY 1, 2009 – Migrant workers from Mexico are being well screened for the flu before entering Canada, assures the Haldimand Norfolk Health Unit. “Some residents in Haldimand and Norfolk are expressing concern that the farm workers coming to our area from Mexico may be a risk of bringing the new strain of […]

SIMCOE, ON, MAY 1, 2009 – The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s youth group, Fresh Heir, is inviting Norfolk County high school students to a free music concert May 7 to expose the tobacco industry’s marketing practices towards youth. The concert, entitled “Face the Music,” runs from 7 to 11 p.m. at Simcoe Composite School and features […]