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Bringing health equity to mammography and health screenings in Arkansas

Bryant-Smith said her center’s MammoVan mobile mammography unit regularly travels throughout Arkansas providing digital screening mammograms and breast care education in rural communities. This helps address access to care in areas there there otherwise are no clinics and would require women to travel large distances to be screened. Outfitted with digital mammography equipment, the three-room mobile unit is staffed by a certified mammography technologist and a technical assistant. The Mammovan program has been operating for more than 10 years. The program works closely to coordinate with local […]

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First District bringing back tobacco cessation courses in Minot

MINOT, N.D. – First District Health Unit will host its first tobacco cessation class since February of last year. The first class will be held on Aug. 12, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the First District South Building in Minot. After that, it will be at the same location on the second Thursday of every month. The class teaches people what resources to use in order to stop smoking and vaping. Leaders of the class say they are happy it’s back. “It feels so good […]

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