Health

For many people, the harsh smell of chemicals found in many commercial cleaning products can be off-putting. For Devin Burns, the chemicals from which...

There’s no doubt about the power of volunteering. Those who do volunteer say they get something special from it. And those who benefit from their effo...

James Hallahan, an adaptive technology instructor for ABVI's mission services, and his father, Bill Hallahan, have picked up hobbies that keep them ac...

When Goodwill International was founded by the Rev. Edgar Helms in 1902, there was an idea of focusing on what’s called the “three Ps” – people, prosp...

I am delighted to write the welcome letter for this edition of Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Community Health magazine. Many of the topics are importan...

Parents have grown increasingly leery of foods that contain peanut-based ingredients. Concerns are valid, though, as a growing number of U.S. children...

Perhaps it’s a collective sense of nostalgia for the days when high quality was standard. Or maybe it’s our love for exciting new flavors. Whatever th...

Scroll through your phone and there’s a good chance you have a few apps for tracking the details of your life: What you ate, how far you ran, how well...

A home-cooked meal is something we inherently crave, love and sometimes simply need. It can bring us back to a different time and place, when scratch ...

With a baby on the way in August 2016, Ashley Predebon had a long and expensive shopping list: diapers, clothes, bottles, crib, stroller. One thing sh...

The Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium has been on a journey to discover reliable, third-party-verified, quality data to assure our ...

At a luncheon for superintendents and business managers on February 24, ACSHIC trustees announced health plan cost increases of 1.9 percent for the fi...

Spring! The annual spring issue of the ACSHIC health magazine has always reflected all this season brings: hope, birth and a sense of the future seaso...

It’s no secret that our infrastructure in the United States is in need of repair. The most widely accepted rating is a D-minus, and that’s both good n...

When employees of school districts in Armstrong-Indiana encounter problems of any sort, they have a place to turn. The Employee Assistance Program was...

The growing problem of opioid abuse hit home for Mariah Syktich when her older brother, Josh Wells, died from a heroin overdose last year. Despite her...

When Bob Shoup was a young man, his health took a surprising turn for the worse. But he kept up a positive attitude on what became a long and tumultuo...

When Cindy Scott was told she was “too healthy” to receive a kidney transplant, she was resigned to wait until her health takes a turn for the worse. ...