WNYT NewsChannel 13: Health Beat: Breast Cancer

The Times Union published a new story as part of its continuing coverage on the growing opioid epidemic in the Capital Region. Dr. Melissa Weimer, Chief of Behavioral Health and Addiction Medicine at St. Peter’s Hospital, was interviewed as part of the story: The newest medical approach may be at St. Peter’s Health Partners, where drug users addicted to heroin, fentanyl and other opioids can now walk into outpatient locations in Albany, Troy and Cohoes or emergency departments at Samaritan, Albany Memorial and St. Peter’s hospitals and promptly be evaluated to get buprenorphine to help them through withdrawal, or more intense detox services if needed. The program has served more than 300 people since it opened last September. “When the person feels, I am able to change in this moment, we are ready to treat them in this moment,” said Dr. Melissa Weimer, medical director of the SPHP Addiction Recovery Center. “We’re trying to make it so there’s no closed door.” To view the article, which also includes a video of Dr. Weimer discussing the […]

St. Peter’s Health Partners will hold a free community presentation on how the treatment for breast cancer affects the heart. At the presentation, Jeffrey R. Uzzilia, MD, FACC, FASE, medical director of echocardiography at St. Peter’s Hospital, and a physician with Capital Cardiology Associates, discusses the latest strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiac complications of breast cancer treatment. Free and open to the public, the presentation will take place: Tuesday, November 12 6 to 7:30 p.m. Mercy Auditorium – St. Peter’s Hospital campus 310 S. Manning Blvd. (Across the street from the hospital) Space is limited and registration is required. Please call 1-800-HEART-76 (1-800-432-7876) to reserve a seat.

Meet Carli O’Hara, a 6th grader at Cohoes Middle School, and a member of the 2018 class of “13 Kids Who Care.”