Health

For Your Health: Teen Pregnancy

Teens need to know that sex can lead to consequences. Which is why Nicole Kirby, a teen mother herself, is working so hard to  get the word out that being a teen mother isn’t easy. Nicole’s... Read more »

For Your Health: Creating A Healthy Workplace

A healthy employee is often the most productive and the encouragement we all need to make healthy choices can start right in the workplace. Steps to a Healthier New York can help your workplace make that... Read more »

For Your Health: Autism

Autism, a developmental disability which affects a person’s ability to communicate and interact with others, is diagnosed in one out of every 150 American children. Mikey White is one of those children. At... Read more »

For Your Health: A Boy Makes A Wish For His Brother’s Happiness

9-year-old Tyler Bidwell has a form of anemia that weakens his immune system. His brother, Zack, is developmentally disabled. When the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted Zack’s wish, it was a trip to... Read more »

For Your Health: Hospital Unveils New Web Site

Officials at River Hospital in Alexandria Bay say they have a new and improved way of reaching out to patients. The hospital has a new Web site. You can now find the results of the River Community Health... Read more »

For Your Health: Follow Up on Kidney Transplant Recipient

Fred Zimmerman stops by the kidney dialysis center in Watertown every once in a while. Only now, instead of receiving a treatment, he is delivering treats to those who helped him. Fred underwent a kidney... Read more »

For Your Health: Doubling The Tobacco Tax?

It’s deadly, but that hasn’t stopped 18 percent of people in New York from doing it. Apparently the health warnings haven’t been enough. That’s why anti-smoking groups are pushing... Read more »

For Your Health: Diabetes Prevention

Senator Charles Schumer unveiled a $500 million legislation plan to combat type one and type two diabetes and encourage healthy living. The plan will focus on creating healthier meals for children in schools... Read more »

For Your Health: Would You Know How To Handle Someone’s Seizure?

December 10 was a day like any other for the Conservation and Forestry class at the Glenfield BOCES, with one exception. When conservation instructor Kevin O’Neill (pictured) had a seizure while... Read more »

For Your Health: Glaucoma Testing

People using Medicaid can now get their eyes tested for Glaucoma in Watertown.As we report in this week’s For Your Health, the new testing is available because of a $70,000 grant from the Northern... Read more »

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