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LiveSmart: College Students and Binge Drinking – A Deadly Mix
Drinking to excess at college is often played for laughs on television and in the movies, but the reality is binge drinking has serious consequences.
Articles by Robert Webster Jr.
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LiveSmart: Care Providers Partnering to Combat Opioid Addiction
The opioid addiction crisis is a public health emergency in New York state. In the battle to combat the epidemic, St. Peter’s Health Partners’ newest initiative is Project ECHO.
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LiveSmart: Love Shouldn’t Hurt on Valentine’s Day or Any Day
If you or a loved one is in an unhealthy or abusive relationship, there is help.
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LiveSmart: Celebrate a Healthy Relationship with Food this Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is about relationships – this year, take a moment to consider your relationship with food and your body.
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LiveSmart: MitraClip – A Powerful Treatment for Leaky Hearts
For patients who are not candidates for open-heart surgery to repair a leaky mitral valve, MitraClip therapy is a new option.
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LiveSmart: WATCHMAN Offers Heart Patients a New Look at Life
The WATCHMAN is an implant, roughly the size of a quarter, which offers patients at risk for a stroke a new outlook at life.
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LiveSmart: HPV Vaccine – Is the Message Making it to Families?
The facts are clear – the HPV vaccine is cancer prevention and it can’t wait. Having a conversation with your child’s pediatrician is critical.
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LiveSmart: Male Over 40? Be Aware of the HPV and Cancer Connection
Middle aged men are being diagnosed with head and neck cancer at a historically high rate, and studies point to the major culprit being HPV.
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LiveSmart: Cervical Cancer Diagnosis – What Comes Next?
A cervical cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming and is one followed by numerous questions, not the least of which is “what comes next?”
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LiveSmart: Screenings, Vaccination Critical in Preventing Cervical Cancer
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month – Here are the steps you can take to prevent cervical cancer in yourself, as well as those you love.