By UTMB Communications Department
With the peak of flu season upon us, UTMB is asking that people who exhibit flu symptoms refrain from visiting friends and relatives at John Sealy and Angleton-Danbury hospitals. Symptoms of the flu include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, vomiting and diarrhea. If you have any of these, please postpone your visit until you have been symptom-free for at least 24 hours without use of a fever-reducing medicine such as Tylenol. Visitors to UTMB clinics who exhibit signs of the flu are asked to put on a face-mask and perform hand hygiene (mask and gel provided at clinic) immediately upon entering the clinic to prevent spread of the flu.
Healthy Habits,Healthy Life
Today’s Lunch Bunch program focuses on how to keep New Year’s resolutions that involve adopting healthy new eating habits and exercise regimens. Family nurse practitioner Tonya Callender and health and wellness specialist Trista Arnold will lead the discussion. The program includes a light lunch and is free and open to the public. It meets from noon to 1 p.m. at the UTMB Specialty Care Center at Victory Lakes, 2240 Gulf Freeway South. For more information, call 832-505-1600.
Free Rape Aggression Defense classes
The UTMB Police Department and the Osler Lifelong Learning Institute will offer a Rape Aggression Defense Systems Basic Physical Defense series of classes free of charge to any woman in the community older than 12. The 12-hour course will be conducted by UTMB police officers from 1 to 5 p.m. today, Wednesday and Thursday at the Galveston Island Community Center at 4700 Broadway.
To register, call 409-763-5604.