{"id":13276,"date":"2011-11-02T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13276"},"modified":"2011-11-02T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:47:22","slug":"flu-shots-ask-an-expert-highlights-of-brock-health-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/11\/flu-shots-ask-an-expert-highlights-of-brock-health-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu shots, &#8220;ask an expert&#8221; highlights of Brock Health Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13278\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13278\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13278 \" title=\"Dr. Darrell Grant, shown here with fourth-year Biological Sciences student Cynthia Harb, will be among the doctors on hand for the upcoming Health Fair.\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/healthfair2011-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Darrell Grant, shown here with fourth-year Biological Sciences student Cynthia Harb, will be among the doctors on hand for the upcoming Health Fair.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Darrell Grant, shown here with fourth-year Biological Sciences student Cynthia Harb, will be among the doctors on hand for the upcoming Health Fair.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Get a flu shot. Pose health questions to an expert. Get a free massage, or assess your overall fitness level.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s just a little of what you can do at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/health-fair\" target=\"_blank\">Health Fair<\/a> at Brock University on Monday, Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/student-health-services\" target=\"_blank\">Student Health Services<\/a> event will encourage people to \u201cAsk an Expert,\u201d said director Melodie Shick-Porter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have doctors, nurses, counselors, chiropractors,\u201d Shick-Porter said. \u201cWe\u2019ll have information on issues like diabetes, cancer and athletic therapy. We want to encourage staff, faculty, students and the community to ask experts, evaluate their own health and get the latest information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flu clinic is co-ordinated by Student Health Services, <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/hr-ehs\" target=\"_blank\">Human Resources and Environment, Health and Safety<\/a> and Niagara Region Public Health. The clinic, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is free and open to the public, as is the health fair in general.<\/p>\n<p>Five massage therapy students and a professor will be on hand from Trillium College, as well as Brock\u2019s on-campus massage therapist. They will offer free 10-minute massages.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics include stress management, anxiety, depression, addiction and more. There will be nearly 100 interactive displays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll feature current information on all the dimensions of health,\u201d Shick-Porter said.<\/p>\n<p>Brock faculty, staff and students have the option to <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/health-services\/flu-clinic\" target=\"_blank\">pre-register an appointment<\/a> for a flu shot. No registration is required for the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The health fair is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Ian Beddis Gymnasium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health care professionals will be on hand to answer questions at the Health Fair and flu clinic on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[49,3328,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13279,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}