Healthy Events
Community-Wide
• Nursing
• Personal Care
• Support Services
• Interpreters
Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)
Home Health Aide (HHA)
Registered Nurses (RN)
Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN)
Foreign Language
Hearing Impaired
Companion/Sitter
Homemaker
Abcare's HomeHealth
Exchange
1-800-70-NURSE
1-810-423-9600
Dr. Jeffrey B. Klein
Director of Advanced Podiatry Clinics
Is Pleased To Announce the Addition Of
Dr. Marie Delewsky
To His Practice Of Podiatric Medicine.
Call For An Appointment.
WATERFORD
/CPC
ADVANCED
PODIATRY
CLINICS
3711 Elizabeth Lake Road
15622 W.10 Mile Road
810-681-6180
810-569-4477
(Near Cass Lake Road)
Just 10 Minutes from West Bloomfield
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AIDS
The Oakland Livingston
Human Service Agency's AIDS
Home Support Program is
seeking donations to support
in-home care provided to peo-
ple with AIDS.
The money will provide the
sick with vital services, in-
cluding cooking, light house-
cleaning, errands and
transportation to doctor's ap-
pointments. Call (810) 858-
2338.
Children
Youngsters, ages 4 to 6, and
their parents will have the
chance to learn about diet, ex-
ercise and safety at a free pro-
gram offered at Crittenton
Hospital, 1:30 to 3 p.m. on
Tuesday, May 24. Register by
calling (810) 652-5345.
Free immunizations for chil-
dren ages 2 months to 16. Sat-
urday, May 21, 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. at Beaumont's Ferndale
Clinic Division. Bring child's
current immunization records.
Call 1-800-633-7377.
Free Screenings
The Michigan Dermatological
Society, in cooperation with the
American Cancer Society, will
conduct free skin cancer
screenings on May 18 through-
out metro Detroit.
Screenings consist of a visu-
al examination of a suspicious
area by a medical doctor spe-
cializing in dermatology who
is volunteering his or her time
to the project. Call 1-800-ACS-
2345.
A West Bloomfield screen-
ing will take place 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. at the Jewish Communi-
ty Center. Call (810) 661-1000.
Volunteers Sought
William Beaumont Hospital
and the Oakland University
Eye Research Institute are col-
laborating in a national re-
search study on the
development and progression
of cataracts and AMD in the el-
derly. Beaumont is seeking vol-
unteers, ages 55 to 78, to
participate.
. Participants will receive two
comprehensive eye examina-
tions annually until the year
2000. To be accepted in the
study, one must first complete
a preliminary eye examination.
Call (810) 551-4601.
Breast Cancer
Free breast cancer discussion
group, sponsored by McAuley
Cancer Care Center, meets on
the third Thursday of every
month, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the
McAuley Cancer Care Center.
Call (313) 712-3512. ❑
Magazine Examines
Breast Cancer Question
Several epidemiological studies
state that Jewish women have
a significantly higher risk of
breast cancer, but no one has an-
alyzed what this statistic really
means. Are Jewish women real-
ly at greater risk than other
women because of genetic factors,
or are there other variables at
work, including environmental
ones?
The spring issue of the New
York-based Lilith magazine asks
these questions. Lilith was found-
ed in 1976 to achieve recognition
for Jewish women and to provide
a forum for the issues that con-
cern them.
According to Susan Weidman
Schneider, the magazine's editor-
in-chief, "Lilith looks at the breast
cancer risk factors and compares
them with the data from a major
demographic study of North
American Jews. Until now, the
Jewish demographics and the
epidemiological studies have not
been examined side by side. It
turns out that Jewish women are
50 percent more likely to remain
single through their child-bear-
ing years than are other white,
American women. Most never-
married Jewish women do not
have children. Never having giv-
en birth correlates with a higher
incidence of breast cancer. Jew-
ish women's life choices and their
health consequences may be a
bellwether for those of highly-ed-
ucated American career women."
In an article titled "Breast
Cancer: How Risky Is It To Be
Jewish?" Lilith notes that "Jew-
ish women are the best educated
women in America today. Our ca-