Free health screening to be held in Atwater

ATWATER — The Health Mart Healthy Living tour said it will offer free health screenings Tuesday at Bertelli's Health Mart Pharmacy in Atwater.

The screenings, from 3 to 6 p.m., include blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose and Hemoglobin A1c tests. The pharmacy is at 1473 Broadway in Atwater.

Co-sponsored by Bayer Diabetes Care and Novo Nordisk, the Health Mart Healthy Living tour aims to raise awareness of what it called in a news release a "growing diabetes epidemic — the disease affects about 25.8 million Americans."

The Health Mart franchise is owned by McKesson Corp. For more information, go to www.healthmart.com.

— Sun-Star staff