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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...

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...

Inspiration can be found in the least likely of places. When he was in fourth grade, Jordan Geist, now a senior at Knoch High School in the South Butl...

It was May 2003. Maggie Spuhler, now a grade school teacher at Wheatland-Chili Central School District, was in her freshman year at State University o...

Think back to your teens and 20s. Were you an athlete? Did you easily maintain muscle while eating whatever you wanted? Now snap back to the present. ...

We’ve all heard it: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But, what does that mean when it comes to your health care? You are probably fami...

For students, being involved in sports is certainly a healthy option, and one that can provide a multitude of social and physical benefits. However, w...

We often conflate lung cancer with cigarettes. Yet, a solid 20% of people who die from lung cancer never smoke a day in their lives. While it’s true t...

Hardly anyone picks up a cigarette for the first time and intends to smoke forever. In reality, most people think they can quit whenever they want to....

In 2011, the National Center for Education Statistics revealed that 54% of eighth-graders performed at the Basic level for the National Assessment of ...

Whether it’s on Facebook, TV or even the local newspaper, guys constantly are bombarded by advertisements about testosterone. These ads promise to cur...

On May 27, a student at Mars Area Primary Center came up to the school’s principal, Todd Lape, and proudly proclaimed, “I got my red shirt on today, M...

The idea of a loved one being ravaged by the horrors of opioid or heroin addiction is the stuff of nightmares. No state in the United States is spared...

Joe Dentzer’s smile spreads across his face when he talks about the upcoming vacation to Italy he and his wife are taking and the debt of gratitude he...

Sore muscles and aches come and go, but pain that sticks around—also known as chronic pain—can be life altering. The number of people suffering from c...

Botvin’s LifeSkills Training, an evidence-based substance abuse and violence prevention program, has become part of the health curriculum this semeste...