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Lung cancer to be discussed at Health Night on the Town

Posted at 1:38 am August 20, 2015
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Carlo Martinez

Carlo Martinez

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There is no sure way to know if you’re going to get lung cancer, but certain risk factors can make you more likely to get lung cancer than another person. Smoking causes 80 percent of lung cancer deaths; however, other factors can increase your risk and even non-smokers can get the disease.

Learn more about lung cancer during Methodist Medical Center’s Health Night on the Town lecture on Tuesday, August 25, at 7 p.m. in the Ridge Conference Room of the hospital, which is at 990 Oak Ridge Turnpike.

Carlo Martinez, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon on the medical staff of Methodist, will present “Lung Cancer: Risk Factors and Prevention.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Health, Meetings and Events Tagged With: cardiothoracic surgeon, Carlo Martinez, Health Night on the Town, lecture, lung cancer, Methodist Medical Center

Green author, activist to speak Aug. 18 in Oak Ridge

Posted at 2:06 am June 28, 2013
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Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben, “the planet’s best green journalist,” according to Time magazine and author of a dozen books about the environment, will speak on fossil fuels and climate change in August in Oak Ridge.

The lecture will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, at the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center.

McKibben is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 190 countries since 2009 and sponsored a 21-city “Do The Math” tour last fall. The “Do The Math” movie has been shown in numerous cities this past spring and several times at First Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge, including by a new Secret City Sustainability group of college students. The movie is available online at 350.org. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Churches, Community, Government, Top Stories Tagged With: 350.org, activist, author, Bill McKibben, carbon dioxide, climate change, Do the Math, Eaarth, ecumenical service, environment, First Presbyterian Chuch of Oak Ridge, fossil fuels, green journalist, Jackson B. Davidson Memorial Lecture on Science and Religion, lecture, Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center, potluck, Sharon Youngs, The End of Nature, writer

‘Girls of Atomic City’ author will be at March 19 lecture, book signing

Posted at 9:10 am March 11, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Denise Kiernan

Denise Kiernan

A March 19 community lecture will feature an author who has written about Oak Ridge women and the second world war.

Denise Kiernan is author of “The Girls of the Atomic City—the Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II.”

She will be the featured speaker during the Tuesday, March 19, lecture, which starts at 6 p.m. at the American Museum of Science and Energy. It’s part of the 16th Annual Dick Smyser Community Lecture Series.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: 16th Annual Dick Smyser Community Lecture Series, American Museum of Science and Energy, AMSE, atomic bomb, author, book, Denise Kiernan, FORNL, Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, lecture, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association, Site X, The Girls of the Atomic City-the Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, women, World War II

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