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Health Notes

By MICHELLE JONES
Published April 9, 2007

A poker run sponsored by Florida Cancer Institute, New Port Richey and Bookkeeping Plus, is set for April 21. Registration is at 9 a.m. at the Harley-Davidson Golf Coast, 5817 State Road 54 in New Port Richey. All proceeds will benefit the upcoming American Cancer Society Relay for Life. Cost is $10 per person. The last bike will leave at 11 a.m. and there will be four stops ending at the Seaside Inn, New Port Richey. The last bike will be in at 3 p.m. Call Peggy at (727) 808-4859 or Holly at (727) 277-9712.

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Heart surgeon Ravi Sharma M.D. will be the featured speaker for an upcoming lecture on The Surgical Approach and Management of Atrial Fibrillation at 9 a.m. Saturday at Fox Hollow Country Club, 10050 Robert Trent Parkway. The lecture is free, and light refreshments will be served. Reservations are required by calling (727) 869-5498 or toll-free 1-888- 741-5119.

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A blood drive is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at Regional Medical Center, Bayonet Point. The bus will be outside the Shoreline Cafeteria, 14000 Fivay Road, Hudson. Call (727) 861-5141.

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Pasco-Hernando Community College will host its annual High School Health Careers Conference for local high school students from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. The conference offers an overview of health professions to high school student interested in a health care career. PHCC departments will present information sessions on nursing, radiology, dental hygiene, dental assisting, EMT and paramedic and human services at the New Port Richey campus, 10230 Ridge Road. Call (727) 816-3289.

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Hernando-Pasco Hospice has transition groups open to anyone who is grieving. Eight-week support groups are led by counselors for any adult who is trying to better cope with the loss of a loved one. Pre-registration is requested by calling toll-free 1-800-486-8784. Classes are on Monday, Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursdays. Call for times and locations.

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Regional Medical Center, Bayonet Point, 14000 Fivay Road, Hudson offers several support groups including breast cancer, prostate, internal cardiac defibrillator, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, Crohn's disease and colitis, Tourette's syndrome, diabetes and weight loss. Call toll-free 1-800-940-1969 for dates and times for the cancer support group, (727) 868-3208 for the prostate, (727) 869-5498 for the defibrillator group, (727) 847-8866 for the fibromyalgia, (352) 684-0427 for the Crohn's group, (727) 207-5968 for the osteoporosis and diabetes group, (727) 418-0240 for the Tourette's group. The weight loss surgery group meets at 6 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month in the hospital's Conference Center.

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The Pasco County Chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness offers support group meetings twice a month for family and friends of those with mental illness. This includes depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, bi-polar, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's. A group meets from 3:30 to 5 p.m. April 16 at Regency Park Community Center, 10240 Regency Park Blvd. in Port Richey. Night groups meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday and April 23 in the Resource Room at Community Hospital, 5637 Marine Parkway, New Port Richey.

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