Health

Let’s talk about sex. If those words grabbed your attention, it may have more to do with the reality that our nation doesn’t normalize the conversatio...

In the past several years, sugar has come under fire from the medical community. Studies have linked sugar consumption to weight gain and an increased...

Mass shootings have been an unfortunately common occurrence in the U.S. for some time now - media outlets report new tragedies on what seems like a we...

When you go to the dentist, the doctor isn’t just assessing your teeth. The health of your mouth can be an indicator of larger, more serious issues. I...

Hair loss (or alopecia) for a woman can be emotionally painful. While some men with no hair are considered handsome, this is not the case for women wh...

Bloating. Constipation. Diarrhea. Heartburn. Stomach cramps. Many men are quite familiar with the misery of digestive issues. “Men tend to have more G...

As the wintry atmosphere has settled outside and the heat gets cranked up indoors, the dry air can wreak havoc on the body — particularly your eyes. Y...

Health insurance plans provide a number of preventive services that many employees don’t know are available, and some simply don’t use. What if people...

Like many people, Michael Wojcik was on a daily medication he didn’t really want to take — and would often forget to take — because he felt fine. Wojc...

Lisa VerWeire didn’t plan to become a mother in her early 40s. It’s just the path life led her down. “Everyone hopes to wait until the perfect time, b...

Jonathan “Jon” Levitt spent the last years of his promising young life battling the grips of a merciless addiction to opioids. Jon was an attractive a...

A large part of aging gracefully calls for accepting and adapting to our maturing bodies. Let’s face it, the older we get, the more we find ourselves ...

As part of an effort to keep students front and center regarding plans for preparedness, staff at Seneca Valley School District recently participated ...

The winter air is quiet. Peaceful. Trees in the Finger Lakes are blanketed in white, fields of fresh clean snow glisten in the (sometimes rare) sunlig...

Flavorings used in e-cigarettes harm blood vessel cells in a way that could trigger future heart damage, according to a study published recently in th...

Whether you like to graze all day at the office or eat simply out of boredom, it can be tough to make healthy snack choices when you’re sitting at a d...

The freezer section is a grocery store favorite — from frozen dinners to frosty desserts, it’s brimming with quick, affordable and delicious items. Ho...

Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, to the casual observer, may seem different. But according to Dr. Bruce Naughton,Excellus BlueCross BlueShield vice p...

“My whole life, as soon as I began menstruating, my periods would cause me to double over in pain,” Megan Latulippe says. She has lived with a conditi...

It’s safe to say the kitchen is a popular room. It’s a hub of activity in most homes. For these reasons and others, a room of such importance requires...