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Keeping Healthy: 64-Slice CT Scanner
If you've ever gotten a cat scan, then you know it's not always the most pleasant experience. But as technology advances - so do the comfort...
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Keeping Healthy: Preventing Falls
"One out of three people over 65 fall, and it's the single largest cause of injury that brings people to the ER."
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Keeping Healthy: Advanced Directives
Advanced Directives are something anyone over 18 should have, but according to social worker Heather Dora - many don't.
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Keeping Healthy: Medicare Annual Enrollment Period and Advantage Plans
For those about to turn to 65 or already enrolled in Medicare, the Annual Enrollment Period is always something that needs to be acknowledged...
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Keeping Healthy: Lunch and Learn
"We're trying to keep everyone healthy, health and wellness, I mean we are a hospital, and we want to treat them but we want to understand how...
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Keeping Healthy: Getting the Flu Shot
We have approached that time of year once again. A crisp chill has returned to the air - soon the gloves and mittens will be coming out,...
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Keeping Healthy: Little Falls Primary Care
"We have more space, more exam rooms, we can see patients more efficiently, we can have their lab work done more efficiently. Little Falls Primary Care opened its doors...
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Keeping Healthy: Health Care Reform 101
Passed by Congress in March of 2010, the Affordable Care Act seeks to expand coverage, provide consumer protections, and create marketplaces, or exchanges, to allow...
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Keeping Healthy: Wound Care
Among everything hospitals and physicians treat - wounds might be one of the most vast categories in the medical field. And if you think just putting some Neosporin...
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Keeping Healthy: Generics vs. Name Brand Prescription Drugs
"Unquestionably generics are safe, effective, and affordable. They have to pass FDA scrutiny for safety and effectiveness, and the increasing use of generics is a good example, of...
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Keeping Healthy: Living life to the fullest at Adult Day Health Care
"They do a world of good, it's very encouraging as you get older and you get less mobile, very encouraging." Geraldine Arsenault, or Gerry, has been coming to Adult...
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Keeping Healthy: Mobile Farmer's Market
One Central New York Farmer is looking to change the way residents get fresh food. "We started here at Excellus, we were selling produce to the employees, some...
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Keeping Healthy: MASH Camp II
They may be teenagers but that doesn't mean they're not driven. While many search their whole lives to find that perfect career, he campers at MASH Camp at...
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Keeping Healthy: Medicare 101
Whether you're already enrolled or on the cusp of your 65th birthday- the Medicare discussion is inevitable. But you do have some choices in how it...
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Keeping Healthy: Why Our State Needs MASH CAMP
It's called MASH Camp - and while it does have to do with the medical field - there's no relation to the medical TV drama. The drama...
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Keeping Healthy: Summer Eating
Strawberries, tomatoes, bananas - the list goes on - are more abundant as the temps heat up. Health and Wellness Consultant Pat Salzer says the availability of...
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Keeping Healthy: Dangers of Underage Drinking
"You probably can pull up any high school picture or yearbook and there's going to be one page dedicated to someone that got killed hitting a tree,...
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Keeping Healthy: Summer Grilling
It's that distinct sizzle and smell that signals summertime. Memorial Day to Labor Day is otherwise known as grilling season. But before you get out your tongs and...
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Keeping Healthy: Preventing Lyme Disease
Ticks are nasty little things - we've all found them before, either on our pets - or on us. And especially this season - we all...
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Keeping Healthy: Hands-Only CPR
"Your best chance of surviving death is for the person standing next to you knows CPR." Dr. Frank Dubeck of Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield says statistics show...
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