What’s on in August

Here are some health events in August you might want to check out:

United States

• 1 August
  National Minority Donor Awareness Day
  National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program
  Ambulatory Care Center
  www.nationalmottep.org
• 2^nd week August
  National Health Center Week
  National Association of Community Health Centers
  www.healthcenterweek.com/
• Cataract Awareness Month
  American Academy of Ophthalmology
  www.aao.org/aaoesite/eyemd/cataract.cfm
• Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
  Prevent Blindness America
  www.preventblindness.org
• National Children’s Vision And Learning Month
  College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD)
  www.covd.org
• National Immunization Awareness Month
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  www.cdc.gov/vaccines
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
  Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
  www.curesma.org
• Psoriasis Awareness Month
  National Psoriasis Foundation
  www.psoriasis.org
  Elsewhere
• 3 to 9 August
  National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Week (Australia)
  The Spastic Centre
  www.thespasticcentre.org.au/
• 24 to 30 August
  Gut Week (UK)
  The Gut Trust
  www.theguttrust.org/

Worldwide

• 1 to 7 August
  World Breastfeeding Week
  World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action
  La Leche League International
  www.llli.org
• MedicAlert Awareness Month
  Medic Alert
  www.medicalert.org

Web Health Chats at Cleveland Clinic

• 4 Aug
  Valve Disease
  James Thomas, MD
• 11 Aug
  Endovascular Grafting – Latest Advances in Aortic Aneurysm Surgery
  Matthew Eagleton, MD
• 19 Aug
  Pediatric Heart
  Constantine Mavroudis, MD
• 24 Aug
  Ask the GYN
  Linda Bradley, MD
• 26 Aug
  Childhood Cancer
  Margaret Thompson, MD, PhD
• 31 Aug
  Multiple Sclerosis Symptom Management

For details: www.clevelandclinic.org/health/chatreg/

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