Spring gardening and yard work can quickly leave our hands, wrists and forearms feeling weak, numb or just plain painful. Repetitive activities such as digging in the soil; trimming bushes, trees, and hedges; and pulling weeds can lead to or aggravate some common hand ailments. [...]
Please join us for a FREE patient education seminar -- When is Heartburn More than Just Heartburn? -- on Monday, April 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the Mercy Auditorium, St. Peter’s Hospital Campus, 310 S. Manning Blvd., Albany. Registration is required; call (877) 525-2227. [...]
The anti-vaccine movement was in the news recently, as the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City announced the documentary Vaxxed was being removed from screening during the [...]
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which makes it an ideal time to discuss the importance of screening and early detection in the treatment of colorectal cancer. [...]
Where can kids walk through a giant ear, see how smoking damages lungs, and learn how what they eat and how they move impacts their health? Where else but at the area’s largest and most popular kid’s health education exhibit – Journey Through The Body, April 8 & 9 at Crossgates Mall. [...]