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Head and Neck Cancer: Learn the Risk Factors and Warning Signs
April is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month and an ideal time for every adult to check with their medical and dental provider about risk factors and warning signs.
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LiveSmart: Minimally Invasive POEM Procedure – Restoring Patients’ Ability to Swallow
POEM is an incisionless, endoscopic procedure that offers patients the ability to swallow again without the risks and recovery from a major surgery.
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LiveSmart: Warmer Weather Means an Explosion of Ticks, Disease
The return of warmer weather also means, unfortunately, a return of everyone’s least-favorite, blood-sucking parasite – ticks.
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LiveSmart: Time to Quit Smoking? Kick the Habit for Good!
Statistics show you’re more likely to quit smoking if you have a plan. Your primary care physician can help you kick the habit!
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Bishop Edward Scharfenberger Presides at Mass and Enthronement of The Saint John’s Bible at St. Peter’s Hospital
St. Peter’s was honored to have the Most Rev. Edward Scharfenberger, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, presiding at a Mass recently where visiting Heritage Editions of the St. John’s Bible were enthroned at St. Peter’s Hospital.
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LiveSmart: Seeking a Career with Limitless Possibilities? Consider Nursing!
St. Peter’s is holding open interviews for nurses on Wednesdays in March.
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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: Listen to Mom – Wash Your Hands!
Hand-to-mouth contact is the primary way many infectious diseases are spread, so proper and frequent hand washing is critical, especially during cold and flu season.
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LiveSmart: Can’t Catch Your Breath? It Could be IPF
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is irreversible scarring of the lung that makes it difficult for sufferers to breathe. Although there is no cure, there are treatments that can help slow the disease’s progress.