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 ...

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...

With prescription pain medicine and heroin addiction rising​ across the nation, and with overdose as the leading cause of death among youth, experts b...

COUDERSPORT — Two of Cole Memorial Medical Group’s Board-Certified pediatricians were honored for their work to improve rural health in the region. Dr...

Cole Memorial Hospital in Coudersport will partner with several organizations to bring high-tech breastfeeding support services to rural patients. The...

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...