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What’s your favorite summer activity?
With choices like Fitness in the Parks, Classes at Canalside and more, there is no better time to exercise, so get out and move!
It’s a great time to visit the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens open daily from 10am-5pm.
Don’t forget caregivers this season. About 43.5 million adults in the U.S. provide unpaid care to an adult or a child annually. About 34.2 million Americans provide unpaid care to people ages 50 or older yearly.
About 29.1 million Americans have diabetes. About 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes, and 86 million Americans age 20 and older have prediabetes. (Diabetes.org)
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Two Elderwood employees were honored by Premier, a national health care improvement leader, for their excellence in the nutritional and culinary disciplines. Amy Julicher, Elderwood director of nutritional services and Daryl Cronk, Elderwood regional...
Schoellkopf Health Center, located on the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center campus, has been awarded a Fiv...
Latus Medical Care, a new innovative primary care practice that will exclusively serve BlueCross BlueShield me...
Kalos Health will commemorate its fifth anniversary of managing health care for Western New Yorkers with a re...
America’s Essential Hospitals, a leading association and champion for hospitals and health systems, has recognized Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) Corporation for its Population Health-based Quality Improvement Initiative. This award recognizes act...
While adult smoking rates are at all-time lows, the fight isn’t over to promote tobacco-free living in N...
Hospice Buffalo and Absolut Care are partnering to care for and improve the quality of life for patients who h...
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center announced today that Mark J. Wright will join the medical center’s admin...
By Andrea Langston, MS, CNS, CDN In the 1980s fat became the villain of American diets. Scientific studies dating back to the 1940s showed a correlation between high fat diets and high cholesterol levels, suggesting that low fat diets may prevent hea...
by Annette Pinder I enjoy eating eggs. I think they are a great choice for breakfast or just about any time. S...
Eating Tips: The Big Game BlueCross BlueShield Encourages Western New Yorkers to Stick to a Healthy Game Plan ...
Try the Trendiest Flavors Tonight New seasonings make it easy (Family Features) Exotic flavors common in the M...
BlueCross BlueShield Offers Largest Variety of Free Fitness Yet Fitness at Canalside, Presented by BlueCross BlueShield Expands to 33 Classes Buffalo, N.Y. – BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York is expanding Fitness at Canalside this summer to of...
By Shannon Traphagen Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, is marked by leaders, citizens, organizations, and eve...
What Your Heart Rate is Telling You Celebrate Heart Health Month with Orangetheory Fitness Heart-rate monitori...
By Annette Pinder This summer I watched a group of people per...
Winter may be a time for cozy sweaters and tall boots, but it also can be a season for static-charged hair and dry skin. Upon the arrival of cold weather, women and men may have to make some changes to their beauty or grooming routines to survive the...
By Annette Pinder When I met Sherry Hale a couple of years ago, she was wearing a white esthetics jacket. The ...
Coolscuplting® is getting local and national attention By Annette Pinder Face it – everyone wants to look grea...
Kybella™ may just be the new botox! The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first drug th...
by cooking ala mel (www.cookingalamel.com) For berries: 3 cups blackberries, rinsed 2 Tbsp honey 1/8 tsp liquid stevia (or 2 more Tbsp honey) 1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped (or 1 Tbsp vanilla extract) 2 tsp cornstarch For the crisp topping: 3/4 cup al...
(Family Features) The needs of grocery shoppers are seemingly always evolving, and now more than ever, they wa...
Try the Trendiest Flavors Tonight New seasonings make it easy (Family Features) Exotic flavors common in the M...
Smarter Snacking with Nutrition in Mind (Family Features) Planning health-conscious New Year’s resolutio...
Kids Will Design New Playground Coming to MLK Jr. Park in September Kids from Buffalo will put crayons to paper and draw their dream playground, which will ultimately become a reality with support from the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, BlueCross Bl...
By Becky O’Connor If you’re trying to boost your mood, improve your memory, or make new friends, consider plan...
By Shannon Traphagen Families looking to stay busy or get away on the weekends this summer often look for acti...
