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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health is becoming a much more frequent topic of conversation in the media and likely with people in our own lives.
Everybody deserves a second chance. But in our region, more than 5,000 children and adults are waiting for a life-saving transplant. Their future depends on compassionate people who register as an organ and tissue donor.
As a parent, you may think you know every trick a teenager has up his or her sleeve. After all, parents were once teens. However, law enforcement authorities say many parents can overlook the signs of drug and/or alcohol abuse hidden in plain sight in their own homes.
A Lower Saucon Township family is celebrating official recognition of Feb. 24 as SCN2A Awareness Day in Pennsylvania and is hopeful the designation will bring more awareness to the SCN2A gene and the role scientists believe it plays in the development of autism and other neurodevelopmental and epilepsy disorders.
The volunteers who contribute their time and talent to helping keep Lower Saucon Township safe welcomed members of the community to an open house Tuesday, where they promoted fire safety and encouraged others to join Lower Saucon Fire Rescue.
A mammogram can be the difference between someone losing their life and detecting early signs of breast cancer in order to prevent it from spreading. However, there is inequal access to the screenings; something a local nonprofit organization is attempting to correct with a public health awareness campaign.
The Crime Victims Council of the Lehigh Valley (CVC) is an important nonprofit organization focused on providing essential services and support for local victims of crime.
To commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, St. Luke’s Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery is hosting its third annual BRA Day, “The Girls” Night Out.
f you see emergency vehicles and what appears to be a wreck outside Saucon Valley High School Tuesday afternoon, administrators don’t want you to be alarmed. The vehicles and first responders will be there for a good reason.
St. Luke’s University Health Network is once again sponsoring a dance–called Polka for Parkinson’s–as a way to bring people like Aquino together with their families and friends for an afternoon of fun, camaraderie, education and healing.