Shake Your Family Health Tree – Sharecare Twitter Chat By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Social Media Networking Event – @BarbaraFicarra Join me @BarbaraFicarra and @SharecareNow experts on 12/13 from 11am-1pm EST for a tweet-n-eat family health tree chat #SharecareLive Title: Tweet-n-eat: Shake Your Family Health Tree Date/Time: December 13, 2011, Tuesday from 11am-1pm EST Topics of Focus: Cystic Fibrosis, Tay-Sachs, Alcoholism, Breast/Colon Cancer, Sickle Cell Disease, Obesity, Heart Disease, Hemophilia, Huntington’s Disease and Hemachromatosis…
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