Lake Norman Regional Medical Center (LNRMC) will offer free prostate cancer screenings in September as part of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

The screenings, conducted by urologists from Lake Norman Urology and Carolina Urology Care, will take place on Sept. 11 at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and on Sept. 25 at the Davidson College Student Health Center. Both events will be held from 9 to 11 a.m.
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By CATHRYN WESTRA
DavidsonNews.net

Updated Tuesday, Aug. 10
The southern U.S. is a “geographical hot spot” for HIV infection and North Carolina ranked 5th in the country in 2007 for the number of women with the disease. Perhaps it is no surprise then that there are many people in the region working toward eradicating the AIDS pandemic. Toward that end, two Davidson residents were at the XVIII International AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, last week: Paige Baker, the executive editor for AIDS.gov, and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner. In interviews this week they reflected on the proceedings, which they said offered hopeful developments and announcements in the field.

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Davidson Lands Conservancy will host its annual road race, the Run for Green, on Saturday, Sept. 18, featuring 5K, 10K and half-marathon races. The routes will all begin at the Davidson Village Green, and travel partly along the town’s public greenways.
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Silly Bandz, those colorful and whimsical elastic bracelets that all the kids seem to be wearing, are the year’s big fad. One friend of ours event recently reported seeing a man with a full-arm tattoo – covered in Silly Bandz. And this spring we wrote about how some schools have banned the bands as a distraction. Now some are suggesting the wrist-choking bands could be a health risk for kids. Read the full story

The weather forecasts for summer’s hot, steamy days usually come with an air-quality rating – “code yellow, code orange, etc.” But what does that really mean?

The federal Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other authorities have developed AIRNow, a website where you can get the latest air quality information and learn more about the system. Read the full story

SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Current cigarette use among high school students nationwide began to decline in the late 1990s, but the rate of decline slowed during 2003–2009, according to CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The report published Thursday, July 8, shows that since 2003, the rate of decline in current cigarette use slowed or leveled off for all of the racial/ethnic (white, Hispanic, and black) and gender subgroups except black female students, for which rates of current cigarette use showed no slowing or leveling off after 1999. Read the full story

How nutritious are vitamin-enhanced bottled waters? Are they worth the extra money? Those questions were on the mind of Washington Post “Eat, Drink & Be Healthy” columnist Jennifer LaRue Huget this week.

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SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
One in 5 U.S. high school students say they have taken a prescription drug without a doctor’s prescription, according to the 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) released earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the full story

Hospital blood drive Fri. Lake Norman Regional Medical Center will host a blood drive with the American Red Cross on Friday, June 25, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The blood drive is open to the public, and no appointment is necessary. Bring photo ID to Community Rooms A & B in the main building of Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, off Exit 33, Mooresville. While the area has been spared by natural disasters this year, the blood supply for the region is still below the levels needed for the area’s population count. So, donors are in great need. Info: 704-660-4859.

SOURCE: Community Blood Center of the Carolinas

CHARLOTTE – The Community Blood Center of the Carolinas (CBCC) says there’s a shortage of O negative blood in the community and is urging O negative donors to donate blood as soon as possible.

“The need for O negative blood in our region’s hospitals right now is critical,” said Martin Grable, president and CEO of Community Blood Center of the Carolinas. “Summer is a particularly difficult time for all blood centers, supply drops and demand often goes up. While we need donors of all blood types, O negative blood is the universal blood type and the most commonly used. We are asking O negative donors to come together to save lives in our 16 area hospitals by donating blood as soon as possible.” Read the full story

SOURCE: Lake Norman Regional Medical Center
Learn the life-saving skills of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)  at the Heart Association Heartsaver CPR course offered at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center on Tuesday, June 15, from 6 to 10 p.m.  Read the full story