October- and Breast Cancer Awareness Month- may be in the rear-view mirror, but we wanted to share with you one more story of a breast cancer survivor who is loving her life…
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Sleep Apnea Isn’t Just For Grown-Ups
Sleep apnea is something that affects a lot of adults. But kids can- and do- suffer from it. One family…
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Epilepsy Surgery
Used to be, Joan Belcher of Meshoppen had to be with someone at all times. She couldn’t drive, couldn’t do…
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Brain Tumor
Pretty much every day, you can find Kim Byriel and his wife Julia walking around their neighborhood in Mountain Top….
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Screening for Depression
SCRANTON — Think you or somebody you love is suffering from a mood disorder? Marywood University held a depression screening…
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Geisinger and Bucknell Team Up For New Surgical App
It seems there’s an app for everything these days, including for patients who have had- or who are considering- bariatric…
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Learning to Walk Again
HANOVER TOWNSHIP — For Lisa Sudo to walk, she first needs to be strapped in. She gets instructions, some help…
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Tree Stand Hunting Safety
It’s time for those yearly reminders about hunting safety, and this time, the message comes from someone who has seen…
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Heart Condition
Alan Neidig and his sisters are trying to heal from the tragedy that shook their family from Williamsport this week….
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Health Fair
It’s cook-out food for lunch here at the Boys and Girls Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania, in Scranton. Burgers and dogs….
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Paleo Diet
The images might be humorous, but thousands of dieters nationwide aren’t joking when they claim that eating like a caveman…
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Whooping Cough
No doubt that is a horrible sound. The sound of whooping cough, or pertussis, a highly-contagious illness that may act…
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Walking to End Alzheimers
Last year, the Northeast Pennsylvania chapter of the Alzheimer’s association raised more than 100,000 dollars to help fund research to…
