The CARE House of the Pee Dee has accreditation status this month through the National Children’s Alliance, making it the only fully accredited child advocacy agency in the Pee Dee.

Federally-funded H1N1, or swine flu, vaccines are being shipped to state health departments, and South Carolina’s regional offices recently received them.

A chicken bog benefit for Ronnie Poston sponsored by the Cooks for Christ will be Thursday at the West Florence Fire Station on Pineneedles Road.

Breast cancer does not discriminate. Women and men, young and old, people of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds develop breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society’s Breast Cancer Facts and Figures for 2007-08, one in eight women will get breast cancer this year.

The first shipments of H1N1 nasal spray vaccines have reached the Grand Strand.

The Alzheimer’s Association is inviting Grand Strand area residents to join the fight against Alzheimer’s by participating in the annual Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk on Nov. 14 at Broadway at the Beach, Heroes Harbor.

It’s to raise awareness for students’ health and body image.  Events took place at the Lib Jackson Student Center Deck from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

They’re dishing out fresh flounder, fish fries, coleslaw, and hush puppies at the train depot all day.

If three members of Florence City Council have their way, the smoking lamp will be extinguished in certain areas of the city. Council members Octavia Williams-Blake and Buddy Brand are sponsoring a bill to regulate smoking. A co-sponsor is Mayor Stephen J. Wukela.

The Live Oak Medical Center and iH3 Wellness Center will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6 p.m. Oct. 27, the Greater Lake City Chamber of Commerce has announced.

Grand Strand Regional Medical Center officials announced Monday that the hospital will seek Level II trauma designation from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The hospital currently has a Level III designation.

Beginning Monday, Oct. 26, patient visitors at Georgetown Hospital System facilities are required to be 19 years or older.

The Myrtle Beach TEA Party or ‘Taxed Enough Already’ invited the public to talk about what bothers them about the proposed bill at the Myrtle Beach Train Depot.

The McLeod Diabetes Center is offering a pre-diabetes and diabetes prevention class. It will be from 4:15 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in McLeod Medical Park East, Suite 250 , 901 E. Cheves St., Florence.

Breast cancer — often regarded as a female illness — can strike women and men alike, and is equally deadly for either gender.