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Devin Lorigan knows that there is plenty of evidence that physical exercise can have a direct positive impact on academic learning, but to see it firs...

Pat Rattigan did not want to stop playing flag football. He didn’t want to avoid wrestling with his children, or avoid playing pickup basketball games...

Do you want to go on a treasure hunt? Check out geocaching, a form of high-tech treasure hunting. It works like this: Using an app linked to your devi...

Lori Rieger’s family has a long history of breast cancer. Her mother, Lois Seelman, was diagnosed when she was 47. And Seelman was only 9 when her mot...

At one time, Jeff Taylor, 59, would have made the cover of a health magazine. Taylor ran the New York City Marathon. He climbed a trail on the Grand C...

Tracy Harp, a caseworker employed by the Ontario County Department of Social Services, has battled weight gain her entire adult life with little succe...

Gun ownership is among the biggest topics of this election season, heating up emotions and arguments on all sides of the issue. But no matter where yo...

They may not be flying, but they do have brooms. The students at Indiana Area Junior High School have brought a little bit of the wizarding world to t...

You’ve hit an especially demanding stretch of work. With your oldest child applying to colleges, financial concerns are keeping you up at night. You g...

Traditional lectures are still one of the most common ways teachers relay information to students in the classroom. For hard-of-hearing and deaf stude...

It seems the day of the good old-fashioned pen or pencil and paper is going to the wayside as schools debate eliminating cursive writing from curricul...

You’ve said sayonara to summer. And it’s about to get cold and damp outside. So what? That doesn’t mean you can’t get out and engage in some physical ...

The first thing many people notice about Lindsay Tersmette, social worker with the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, is the way that sh...

For someone dedicated to the wellness of others, it was a bit unsettling for Stephanie Balin to see her own health backsliding. Balin is an exercise s...

The J.P. Chase Corporate Challenge has become synonymous with camaraderie, excitement, energy and health. For many Finger Lakes Area School Health Con...

Over the last 30 years, the rate of obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents, making it a serious concern for parents a...

You already know how difficult and exhausting it is to squeeze workout time into an already jam-packed schedule filled with work, family responsibilit...

If an attacker has you in a chokehold, how do you get away? If an attacker lunges straight at you, how do you stop them? Ask some of the women at Livo...

September is National Preparedness Month, and in recognition, Community Health spoke to Westinghouse safety experts for tips on how to be more prepare...

Oh, great. A light bulb burnt out. No big deal. You grab a replacement from your junk drawer, change it and everything is square. But what do you do w...