Healthy Choices Project

No amount or kind of health information can ever replace the advice of a healthcare provider. However, better healthcare may begin with access to better quality health information.

Nowadays the Internet offers us vast amounts of health information. The volume of information can be confusing as it is often difficult to decide what information is valid, up-to-date and trustworthy. Healthy Choices can help.

Healthy Choices is a program offered through Stamford Hospital and several Fairfield County public libraries to help guide your search for reliable, up-to-date, and understandable health information online. The participating libraries are: Darien Library, Ferguson Library (Stamford), Norwalk Public Library, and Wilton Library Association. See below for contact information.

Healthy Choices consists of the following:

Healthcare Information Presentations
Qualified healthcare professionals will offer presentations and lectures on a variety of topics, ranging from diabetes management and heart disease to osteoporosis and avian flu.

Hands-on Computer Training Classes
Specially trained librarians will offer hands-on computer classes using freely-available, high-quality health information resources and databases provided by the National Library of Medicine, including MEDLINEPlus and NIH Senior Health.

Upcoming events at the Darien Library (March-April 2008):

Healthcare Information Presentations

Menace in Your Medicine Cabinet:
Drug Misuse & Bad Outcomes from Good Medicines
Dominic Sammarco, R.PH. Stamford Hosp.
Date/Time: Mar. 3, 2008, 6:30 - 8:00pm

Heart Disease: Prevention & Treatment
Dr. Steven Horowitz, Stamford Hosp.
Date/Time: Mar. 5, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30pm

Gastroenterology: No Ifs, Ands or Buts
Dr. Richard Sheinbaum, Stamford Hosp.
Date/Time: Mar. 10, 2008, 6:30 - 8:00pm

Peripheral Artery Disease:
Everything You Want to Know
Dr. Ben Marsan, Stamford Hosp.
Date/Time: Mar. 26, 2008, 3:00 - 4:30pm

MRSA: Scope as a Public Health Issue
Dr. Michael Parry, Stamford Hosp.
Date/Time: Mar. 31, 2008, 1:30 - 3:00pm

Keeping Your Feet Healthy
Josephine Velazquez, D.P.M., Stamford Hosp.
Date/Time: Apr. 2, 2008, 2:30 - 4:00pm

Dietary Supplements:What’s It All About?
Dr. Joseph. S. Feuerstein, Stamford Hosp.
Date/Time: Apr. 11, 2008, 1:30 - 3:00pm

Hands-on Computer Training Classes

Date/Time: Mar. 14, 2008, 1:30 - 3:00pm
Date/Time: Apr. 3, 2008, 1:30 - 3:00pm
Date/Time: Apr. 25, 2008, 9:00 - 10:30am

To register for a presentation or workshop, please contact Judy Sgammato at the Darien Library (203) 655-1234 x136

Funding & Endorsement

Healthy Choices is part of the Connecticut Consumer Health Awareness and Resource Education Project and is sponsored by the National Networks of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) - New England Region, with support and endorsement of the Connecticut Library Consortium.