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Keeping Healthy: Making Mammographies Accessible to All
"Breast Cancer is the second most common cancer in women, only behind skin cancer, and it's the second leading cause of cancer death in women right behind...
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Keeping Healthy: Mental Health Awareness Month
The issue of mental illness has been in the spotlight recently more than ever - between some of the horrific events our country has endured and budget...
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Keeping Healthy: How Insurance Companies Decide What to Cover
"You see in ad on TV or your read something in the Wall Street Journal about this great new discovery, and if you're affected by whatever that...
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Keeping Healthy: Buying Generics Can Save Major Health Care Dollars
Generics are the exact same drug that's in the brand and they're at a much lower cost.
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Keeping Healthy: Staying Strong and Steady
"Falls are very serious and they're very common and what people really need to know is that a fall has many factors, a lot of them are...
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Keeping Healthy: The Mediterranean Diet
"The Mediterranean Diet is not just a diet, but a lifestyle."
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Keeping Healthy: Little Falls Hospital's Wellness Program
From a very young age, we're taught when you fall, you get back up. But that's not always so easy. That's why Little Falls Hospital has the...
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Keeping Healthy: Celebrating American Red Cross Month
Part of the American Red Cross' mission is to provide compassionate care to those in need. While most of us think of the organization...
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Keeping Healthy: Helping Kids Stay Healthy
Children hold a lot of wonderful qualities - their curiosity, innocence, playfulness- and they can be pretty cute. But they also tend to pass...
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Keeping Healthy: The Truth Behind Fad Diets
Low fat, low carb, low sugar, gluten free, 20 pounds in 20 days- when it comes to dieting, the options are endless.
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Keeping Healthy: Organ Donation
"There are a 100,000 plus people in the U.S. waiting for organs today, 8,000 of those are in New York State alone, every 14 minutes somebody is...
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Keeping Healthy: "Makeover My Heart"
Heart Disease is the leading cause of death for women. But, it doesn't have to be. In fact, Heart Disease can mostly be prevented.
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Keeping Healthy: Winter Safety for Seniors
"Senior citizens take a lot longer for them to get from point a to point b so they're exposed to the cold much more frequently," says nurse...
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Keeping Healthy: Overcrowding in the ER
"Recently there's been a lot of hospital closings, hospitals don't have as many inpatient [facilities];" says Dr. Mark Winther of Little Falls Hospital... ...
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Keeping Healthy: Avoiding the ER
Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, along with Oneida and Herkimer County Medical Societies launched a campaign last year to curb potentially avoidable emergency room...
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Keeping Healthy: Picking the right gym
Now that we've reached 20-13 it's time to start on New Year's Resolutions. Maybe it's putting in extra effort at work - or doing...
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Keeping Healthy: Is it too late to get the Flu shot?
Typically the flu doesn't peak until February - but this year it's hit high levels already, especially in central New York. Dr. Mark Winther of Little Falls...
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Keeping Healthy: Staying Slim During the Holidays
We're smack dab in the middle of the biggest eating season. It's hard to say no to all that delicious food - but there are ways to...
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Keeping Healthy: Little Falls Hospital's Swing Bed Program
Selma Valis is originally from Lithuania. She moved to Herkimer after her husband passed away. She was faring well on her own until she had a serious...
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Keeping Healthy: The Gift of Health
We have reached that time of year - where you have to think of a creative, unique gift for everyone in your life. It should be fun...
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