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To be included or submit items to be published in the weekly Senior News list, email information to tmunnell@tribtoday.com or dbigelow@tribtoday.com. The deadline is noon Wednesday for inclusion in that week’s list. GIRARD MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTER: The Girard Multi-Generational Center, 443 Trumbull Ave., Girard, OH 44420, is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Center services and programs are funded by the Girard City Senior Levy and in part by the Trumbull County Senior Levy and Direction Home of Eastern Ohio. LIBERTY SENIOR WATCH PROGRAM: Established in 2008, the ...

Meds for depression remain controversial

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Nearly 50 million Americans take antidepressant medications. These include sertraline (Zoloft), escitalopram (Lexapro), bupropion (Wellbutrin), trazodone (Desyrel), fluoxetine (Prozac) and duloxetine (Cymbalta). Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would like to see many physicians “deprescribe” such drugs. That goal has created consternation among both psychiatrists and patients. The effectiveness of these drugs has been controversial for decades. Twenty years ago, psychiatrists conducted a groundbreaking study they called STAR*D (New England Journal of ...

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH: Deciding on need for MMR vaccine

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DEAR DR. ROACH: Recently, you wrote that people who were born before 1957 are likely to have had measles and don’t need to get the measles vaccine. I was born in 1954 and had measles in 1959 (with photographs to prove it). Last year, I had an MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) titer test, which showed that I had sufficient antibodies for mumps and rubella but insufficient antibodies for measles. I’m concerned because I can’t receive the live measles vaccine unless I suspend my biologic medication for rheumatoid arthritis. This would suppress my immune system for at least two months ...

HINTS FROM HELOISE: Let kids help with meal prep

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DEAR HELOISE: The best activity for kids before a holiday meal is having them help in preparing it. This is how they’ll learn how to prep for a big celebration, which is the only way to learn how to do anything. Of course, the work must be geared to each kid’s level of ability, and some guidance is required. This will also teach them responsibility and give them pride. —Louis R., in Reseda, California Louis, this is a solution that brings varied results. It’ll all depend on whether the host likes to have everything ready for company before they arrive and whether the ...

Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment

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Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: 53rd Hoyt Regional Juried Art Exhibition and Mini Masterpiece Exhibition, both through July 23. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. hoytartcenter.org and ...

TAG displays Novelli memorial exhibition

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Trumbull Art Gallery displayed Amy Novelli’s work several times, starting with a student show when she was at Warren G. Harding High School in 1981. The creations of Novelli, who died last December in New Orleans at age 61, will be featured in “From the Berlin Wall to the Bayou: A ...