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The independent nurse practitioner with her or his own business is a rare breed. Though most of these professionals work ...

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” — Benjamin ...

Photo by David Plakke Let’s peek into the crystal balls of a few health experts out there and see what ...

When you were a kid, did anyone ever tell you, “Your epidermis is showing?” Maybe you looked down at yourself ...

Photo by WordRidden When skies are clear and it’s 80 degrees out, it’s easy to run around, eat salads, and ...

Photo by Dan Barton “I’m at the lunch table with somebody. I’m 16.” Ulster County Executive Mike Hein is sitting ...

Once the weather starts getting colder and activities move inside, coughs and sniffles typically begin spreading like wildfire. Kim Keefe, ...

No one can deny that tobacco use is one of our biggest public-health issues and that healthcare practitioners need to ...

Dr. Jodi Friedman. People no longer experience life as a succession of roles which shift like clockwork purely on the ...

They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as free care. Dozens ...

Seventeen health insurance companies have stepped up and offered New Yorkers four levels of plans (plus an ominous-sounding “catastrophic” category) ...

photo by elbragon Around the world and through the millennia we’ve been adorning our bodies with jewelry, sometimes integrating that ...

photo by Newtown graffiti When I’m wearing one of my other hats, as a nutrition educator for a local natural-foods ...

The cost of medical care to consumers is nothing short of outrageous. A Houston cancer center billed a patient $7 ...

Photo by Robert S. Donovan I arrived at my son’s midday soccer game on a hot sunny day. I had ...

Photo by Jhaymesisviphotography. It’s likely we all know at least one person who didn’t make it through high school. For ...

Making Ulster County the healthiest county in New York State has got to be County Executive Mike Hein’s most well-publicized ...

Illustration by Rick Holland For so many, losing a job can mean losing everything: family, finances, health, home and sanity. ...

With state and federal support in question and Ulster County facing an obesity epidemic, the county health department has its ...

Photo by Dion Ogust Many of us head to our favorite swimming holes, those clear stretches of creek water gliding ...