health

These days, it seems there’s no shortage of quick-fixes and cure-alls for anything from weight loss to cancer prevention. Supplements and shakes promi...

I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of hiking long distances. Stories of people who have trekked the Pan-American Highway or the Appalachian Tra...

Before you scrap those potato peels, try soaking them in water, tossing them in olive oil, adding a pinch of sea salt and baking them in the oven for ...

SMETHPORT — Sean Kean Manor will be holding a health fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 19. There will be screenings of blood pressure, blood glucose, p...

Amanda Dillon began smoking when she was 14 years old. Now 34, she found the inspiration to give it up after the death of her father, who had for year...

For many people, the harsh smell of chemicals found in many commercial cleaning products can be off-putting. For Devin Burns, the chemicals from which...

On July 23, 2015 Marlisa Post received a new set of lungs and a new lease on life. On that day, the 46-year-old Rochester woman underwent a double-lun...

When Goodwill International was founded by the Rev. Edgar Helms in 1902, there was an idea of focusing on what’s called the “three Ps” – people, prosp...

I am delighted to write the welcome letter for this edition of Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Community Health magazine. Many of the topics are importan...

Parents have grown increasingly leery of foods that contain peanut-based ingredients. Concerns are valid, though, as a growing number of U.S. children...

Perhaps it’s a collective sense of nostalgia for the days when high quality was standard. Or maybe it’s our love for exciting new flavors. Whatever th...

Scroll through your phone and there’s a good chance you have a few apps for tracking the details of your life: What you ate, how far you ran, how well...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Student Health Office will hold its annual Health and Wellness Fair Thursday. The fair will be held from 11 a...

A home-cooked meal is something we inherently crave, love and sometimes simply need. It can bring us back to a different time and place, when scratch ...

With a baby on the way in August 2016, Ashley Predebon had a long and expensive shopping list: diapers, clothes, bottles, crib, stroller. One thing sh...

The Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium has been on a journey to discover reliable, third-party-verified, quality data to assure our ...

At a luncheon for superintendents and business managers on February 24, ACSHIC trustees announced health plan cost increases of 1.9 percent for the fi...

Spring! The annual spring issue of the ACSHIC health magazine has always reflected all this season brings: hope, birth and a sense of the future seaso...

The growing problem of opioid abuse hit home for Mariah Syktich when her older brother, Josh Wells, died from a heroin overdose last year. Despite her...

When Bob Shoup was a young man, his health took a surprising turn for the worse. But he kept up a positive attitude on what became a long and tumultuo...