Friday, January 9, 2009
A good sort of giveaway
Not to be outdone by Wegman's and Giant, Walgreen's is wrapping up its year-long "Take Care Health Tour", for which it dispatched a fleet of med-equipped RVs to provide free health screenings around the nation. When the tour is all finished by this spring, it will have provided on-the-spot blood pressure, BMI, total cholesterol, glucose levels, bone density and waist circumference screenings in 300 cities.
Hard to argue with that, though one hopes there's been some effort to target less priveleged areas, and to direct folks to local clinics where they can get low-cost follow-up. Either way, this is one "giveaway" I can get behind. But maybe I'm missing something-- is there a downside, here? Feel free to weigh in..
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posted by Jessica Berthold at
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