Health

Smartphones are hot items on many children’s Christmas lists this year. While it seems like a harmless purchase, parents should consider every aspect ...

WASHINGTON – Americans will no longer be required to get a medical examination before obtaining a hearing aid, the Federal Drug Administration announc...

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I have a good friend with a short attention span. When he sees a hobby he thinks he might enjoy, he’ll jump into it with both feet. When he decided to...

According to the American Red Cross, every two seconds someone in the United States is in need of blood. That is why blood drives — like the one recen...

At 340 pounds, Tykeshia L. Robinson, a financial analyst with Westinghouse’s Columbia, S.C., site knew she had to make a change in her lifestyle becau...

For the past 10 years, Jim Jenko has dedicated a significant amount of his time walking sections of the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia. It wa...

We’re all familiar with the holiday cycle: We give in to sweet treats and hearty, almost over-indulgent, meals. Then, at the end of December when the ...

Smartphones are hot items on many children’s Christmas lists this year. While it seems like a harmless purchase, parents should consider every aspect ...

As more baby boomers enter retirement age, the number of older adults in the U.S. is surging — and so are the chances for some of those seniors to suf...

Becky Roffe has been giving back to her community for a long time. “When my sisters and I were in primary grades, we started volunteering our four-par...

Sunday, Oct. 9, bloomed into a beautiful autumn day. And that was good news for the Autism Speaks Walk held at Monroe Community College. More than 1,5...

Although we’re already several months into the 2016-17 school year, Wellness Coordinators across the Finger Lakes Area School Health Program districts...

Hip surgery. A packed schedule. Neither of these are enough to stop Deb Wordingham, computer lab assistant at Naples Elementary School, and Lisa Geary...

Get your screening. Get your reward. That’s part of the premise for the UR Medicine Employee Wellness pilot program designed to improve health and wel...

Over the summer, superintendents Dan Murray of York Central School District and Michael Hayden of Clyde-Savannah Central School District, decided it w...

Most people look at Jan. 1 as the beginning of a new year. Not Ashleigh Gerstner, Special Education teacher at North Rose-Wolcott Central School Distr...

The list of the 100 best employers is filled with companies that treat their employees with great respect. They have personnel policies that are famil...

Therapy can be a treatment for building physical strength, managing and learning to cope with emotional or mental health, or for holistic healing. How...

Every day, as they walk into the building, staff and students at New Castle Area School District’s George Washington Intermediate School can’t help bu...