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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...

“I have to get in shape, I have to start exercising,” says Jeanine Whitney, secretary at Colonial School District, recalling what she told herself bac...

Should a sprained ankle or chest pains send a person to the emergency room, or is an urgent care center more appropriate? The choice is difficult, to ...

It’s that time of year again, where football is at the center of many a weekend party. Foods like chips, dip, sliders, taquitos and mozzarella sticks ...

In the grips of a bitter wintry depression and feeling the tug of old demons in the form of drugs and alcohol Yana Khashper and her boyfriend Sean Smi...

If you want to learn how to swing from your knees or walk a tightwire, then you should try out aerial, or circus, fitness. Circus has seen a resurgenc...

It only takes a split second. A patch of black ice or snow lies in wait to trip you up. You’re not paying attention to where you are walking, or you’r...

Here's what usually happens when we get sick. We go to the doctor, get a prescription and, before too long, we're in recovery – managing ourcondition ...