Blair Senior Services and Tyrone Hospital co-sponsored a community education program entitled \u201cPreventative Health: Steps You can take to Maintain Health and Prevent Illness\u201d.
\nThe program was presented by Victor Santillan, M.D., General Medicine practitioner and Board Certified General Surgeon. Dr. Santillan has a practice in Tyrone and is an active member of the Tyrone Hospital medical staff.
\nPeople who attended the program learned about steps they can take to maintain and improve their health and heard a broad overview of areas of prevention to address a person\u2019s general well being. They also learned how taking preventative health steps can reduce their risk of developing illnesses.
\nSome of the topics that were addressed in Dr. Santillan\u2019s overview included: nutrition, lifestyle changes, appropriate use of low dose aspirin, vaccines, poly pharmacy, use of seat belts, stress management, diagnosis and prevention of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and prevention of various types of abuse including physical, psychological, sexual, and financial.
\n\u201cWhen it comes to preventative health, it is never too late to start,\u201d said Dr. Santillan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Blair Senior Services and Tyrone Hospital co-sponsored a community education program entitled \u201cPreventative Health: Steps You can take to Maintain Health and Prevent Illness\u201d. The program was presented by Victor Santillan, M.D., General Medicine practitioner and Board Certified General Surgeon. Dr. Santillan has a practice in Tyrone and is an active member of the Tyrone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}