Central Racine CountyHealth Department

IMMUNIZATIONS & TB SKIN TESTS: The health department offers childhood and adult vaccinations and TB skin tests.

Childrens vaccines include DTaP, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Hib, HPV, MMR, meningococcal, pneumococcal, polio, rotavirus, seasonal influenza, Tdap and varicella. Administration fees are $10 for one immunization; $15 for two; $20 for three or more; Badgercare recipients are fee exempt. Childhood vaccines are available at the following walk-in clinics for those that meet state eligibility requirements:

First Thursday of the month, 4-5 p.m.

Second Monday of the month,4-5:30 p.m.

Third Thursday of the month, 10-11 a.m.

Fourth Thursday of the month,4-5:30 p.m.

Adult vaccines include hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Td, Tdap and seasonal influenza. Costs vary by vaccine. TB skin tests are also available for $15. Call for eligibility requirements or to schedule an appointment.

All clinics and appointments are held at the Central Racine County Health Department, 10005 Northwestern Ave. (second floor of the U.S. Bank building). For more information on clinics, eligibility requirements or to schedule an appointment, call (262) 898-4460 or go to http://www.crchd.com.

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CLINIC

Free Medical Clinic, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Bridge Ministries, 200 East 24th Street and Tabor Road, downtown Bryan. Everyone is welcome. Free to all.

Brazos County Health Department Immunization Clinic, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. 201 N. Texas Ave., Bryan. All ages. Immunizations are $5 for children and $25 for adults. Immunizations are only available to those without private insurance and for children with CHIP or Medicaid. http://www.brazoshealth.org. 361-4440.

MOVE

Wednesday

Fit & Strong Class, 9:30 to 11 a.m. The Grimes St. Joseph Health Center, Education Center. Low-impact aerobics, strength exercises, flexibility and balance training. Group discussions on exercise safety, arthritis management and more. lmeece@st-joseph.org or 936-870-4575.

Gracie JiuJitsu, 6:50 a.m. University of Sidekicks, 12845 F.M. 2154, Suite 120. Mondays and Wednesdays. $92 per month. Uniform required. Self-defense class, recommended for women. 661-1560.

Seniors Golf Tournament, 7:30 a.m. Bryan Golf Course, 206 W. Villa Maria Road in Bryan. $5 entry.

Gentle & Restorative Yoga, 5:45 to 7 p.m. Brazos Healing Center, 1804 Brothers Blvd, Suite D. Brazos HealingCenter.com or 402-3595.

Thursday

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SINGAPORE--(Marketwire - Mar 26, 2013) - ConnectedHealth, a provider of health monitoring connectivity solutions, and Fitbug, which offers consumer health monitoring services and devices, today announced a partnership to provide combined consumer and health care provider fitness and health monitoring solutions.

Effective fitness and health monitoring requires that consumer data be made available to health care providers remotely -- which also gives consumers visibility into their progress and measurements.ConnectedHealth provides health care organizations with remote health monitoring solutions via the ConnectedHealth eHealth platform and care provider applications.Fitbug's products offer users personalized health programs by tracking their progress in terms of weight, activity and blood pressure.Together, the combined capabilities of the two companies enable personalized health care and fitness monitoring with health care provider access and oversight.

ConnectedHealth's eHealth platform 3.0 (EH3.0) is a secure personal health record Software-as-a-Service platform that facilitates end-to-end connectivity between medical devices and electronic medical records.The EH3.0 platform supports connectivity with ConnectedHealth's proprietary and Continua-based gateway devices and applications, and FitBug's personal health management systems.

Consumers measure their personal fitness and health with Fitbug weight scales, activity monitors and blood pressure monitors.Health care providers access the eHealth platform to improve their patient management regime by monitoring a patient's health condition.The benefits include:

"Bringing together consumer and health care provider fitness and health care measurements gives real advantages," said Paul Landau, CEO of Fitbug."Together, ConnectedHealth and Fitbug provide consumers with real time information on their health and fitness, while reducing health care costs and improving patient outcomes."

By providing a system to enable patients to self-manage their health, insurance companies stand to benefit through reduced admissions and medical claims.Additionally, interfaces are available to integrate with incentive/rewards programs, tying compliance (through regular readings) into these programs for better overall results.

About FitbugFitbug is a leading provider of online health and well-being services to help individuals to improve their lifestyles by making realistic changes to their daily routine.Key market sectors include health insurance and rewards providers, workplace health programmes, fitness operators and consumers. Increasingly, Fitbug's platform acts as the driving force behind third party services such as white label sites, activity driven games and challenge microsites and rewards programmes.The Company's main focus is now on building strategic partnerships with organisations, with the United States as a key market, which can integrate Fitbug into their own service/product offerings or resell to their customer base.The Fitbug business was founded by Paul Landau, CEO of Fitbug Limited.Fergus Kee, Executive Chairman of the Company is the former Managing Director of Bupa's UK and North American Division.For more information visit http://www.fitbug.com.

About ConnectedHealth Pte. Ltd.ConnectedHealth is a wireless health innovator committed to developing health monitoring connectivity solutions that drive down health care costs by improving patient compliance.ConnectedHealth's eHealth Platform product is the first to provide an end to end connected solution for remote health management.

ConnectedHealth sells its eHealth Platform to health care providers who seek to reduce the cost of patient care by keeping patients that can be cared for remotely out of hospitals.

For more information, please visit http://www.connhealth.com or follow ConnectedHealth on Facebook or Twitter.

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Top health and fitness apps around the globe in the iTunes charts this week include an exercise-powered virtual reality game, a yoga app from Electronic Arts, and an app for tracking your baby's development. Here are details on a selection of top iTunes paid and free health and fitness apps by country for the week, recorded on March 27.

US: Yogify Electronic Arts' yoga app features 35 hours of yoga across 50 progressively challenging classes. Gain mastery of more than 275 poses, and customize your music while you practice. Free, but to access more than a few classes you'll need to pay $1.99. https://itunes.apple.com/my/app/yogify/id580676053?mt=8

Spain: Baby Doc Expecting parents can track their growing baby and manage doctors' visits. Once the baby is born, you can also check his or her development as percentiles and track immunizations. 0.89 https://itunes.apple.com/my/app/yogify/id580676053?mt=8

UK: Sworkit This app offers randomized circuit training workouts to keep you fit. Choose workout length and target different areas. No weights or extra equipment needed. $0.99 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sworkit-pro/id539623568?mt=8

Pakistan: Islamic Teachings Health Tips and Remedies This Urdu-only app features a compilation of spiritual and physical healing techniques, tips and remedies from the life of Muhammad. Free. https://itunes.apple.com/pk/app/islamic-teachings-health-tips/id591643393?mt=8

South Africa: Gamefit Bike Race This exercise-powered virtual reality game gets you pedaling on an indoor cycling machine to burn calories and win the game. Pro version features six cycling locations. Free. https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/gamefit-bike-race-exercise/id613890764?mt=8

Philippines: Workout Trainer This fitness app features multimedia workouts coached by expert personal trainers. Features workouts for weight loss, yoga, weightlifting, running, and more. Free. https://itunes.apple.com/ph/app/workout-trainer/id395686735?mt=8

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SAN DIEGO, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --IDEA Health & Fitness Association, the world's largest organization of health and fitness professionals, recently launched FitFeed, where visitors will find the top 30 trending headlines in health and fitness from 250,000 fitness professionals.

FitFeed collates the most popular content being shared via Twitter, Facebook and IDEA Client Share by 250,000 fitness professionals. The results are displayed by popularity in real time and any item from the Internet that enough fitness professionals are sharing through their social networks will be included. Content comes from big sites like http://www.fitnessmagazine.com or http://www.NewYorkTimes.com, to articles from small fitness blogs and anything in between.

Users can also view trending hashtags on Twitter, comment back and forth on FitFeed content, share FitFeed content via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus and IDEA Client Share, and see how many times a piece of content has been shared, who has shared it, the social network it was shared on and what time and day it was shared.

"FitFeed is unique because it's the first and only place where you can see what experts in fitness are sharing with their colleagues and clients in real time," says IDEA Executive Director Kathie Davis. "Fitness professionals and enthusiasts will benefit tremendously, not just from the wisdom of crowds, but from the wisdom of a crowd of experts."

FitFeed is a free resource and can be found by visiting http://www.ideafit.com/fitfeed.

About IDEA Health & Fitness Association

IDEA Health & Fitness Association is the world's leading organization of fitness and wellness professionals. We deliver world-class content and continuing education to fitness professionals through three channels: our seven publications, including the award-winning IDEA Fitness Journal; our world-class fitness conferences; and hundreds of streaming videos and DVD courses available on our website http://www.ideafit.com. Additionally, with IDEA FitnessConnect, we have created the largest national industry-wide directory linking over 250,000 fitness professionals to more than 16 million consumers. Through IDEA professionals in over 80 countries, we Inspire the World to Fitness.

Contact: Kelly Nakai IDEA Health and Fitness Association 858.535.8979, ext. 212 Email

This press release was issued through eReleases Press Release Distribution. For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com.

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Integrity Health Coaching Solutions expands to provide health coaching services to fitness centers, corporate wellness and weight loss specialty clubs. They recently launched a new and improved website to advertise all their health coaching products and services.

Manchester, New Hampshire (PRWEB) March 28, 2013

The site encompasses everything under the main title, "Integrity Health Coaching Solutions". The sub categories focus on their 24 hour women only coaching centers, their proprietary EZ Coach Fitness Prescription System that serves the fitness and corporate wellness markets, and a section dedicated to franchise sales.

Integrity Health Coaching is creating networks of like-minded professionals who see the value in their health coaching technologies and are interested in adopting a systematized approach to guiding individuals to optimal health. On the website people who are utilizing the services will be able to log in and find a vast library of health education and instructional videos.

There is also a portion of the site dedicated to helping women. The page is called Our Amazing Women. This section will feature a page where anyone will be able to submit a story about an amazing woman in their life and have it posted for all to see. Businesses will be able to become an affiliate of the Our Amazing Women site and get their business listed for free just by providing a discounted product or service to any woman who mentions they saw in on the site.

Integrity believes their technology is the most effective solution for better health. Whether it is building strength, weight loss, stress reduction or just overall health improvement, Integrity has your solution. Rocco Boulay, Integrity CEO states; "There is so much opportunity to help people get healthy and I'm so grateful to be a part. We are already finding partners who are excited to be involved in this exciting venture."

If you would like more information regarding membership to any of their women only facilities in Bedford, Londonderry or Amherst New Hampshire or if you are interested in franchising or becoming a partner please visit our website.

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