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Alice's Restaurant walk helps fight disease

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Monday, May 20th, 2013, 9:27am
The former Alice's Restaurant, Stockbridge, Mass. - Dtobias

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) - About 130 people have retraced Arlo Guthrie's journey immortalized in the song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" to raise money and awareness for Huntington's disease.

The six-mile "Guthrie Historic Garbage Trail Walk" now in its 13th year, runs from the former Alice's Restaurant in Stockbridge to the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.

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Farm Rich products recalled Over E. coli fears

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Friday, March 29th, 2013, 1:04pm

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Rich Products Corporation of Buffalo has announced a voluntary recall of its Farm Rich Mini Quesadillas and other Farm Rich products due to possible contamination with E. coli bacteria.

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Flu is widespread in New York and Capital Region

Submitted by WNYT Staff
Friday, January 4th, 2013, 2:39pm

ALBANY - The flu is making the rounds in the Capital Region.

"I think we're starting to see it picking up," said Jovanna Stepan, a physicians assistant at Albany Medical Center. "It seems to have started a little bit later than what I've seen in the past."

At Albany Med, 105 patients who came in to the emergency department or hospital clinics have tested positive since Dec. 1. Sixty-five were so sick they were admitted to the hospital.

Compare that to 24 people testing positive in all of last year's flu season with 21 admissions.

"And I think that people have forgotten how severe an illness that influenza really is. Young people die every year from influenza," said Dr. Richard Blinkhorn Jr., an infectious disease specialist.

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Living with Parkinson's lecture

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012, 1:27pm

PITTSFIELD -  On Thursday, October 11, Teva Neuroscience and the American Parkinson Disease Association will have an education program for patients and family members.

Living Well With Parkinson’s will be presented by Dr. Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora. Dr. Zamora is a neurologist and Movement Disorders Specialist at Albany Medical Center.

The event will be at Mazzeo’s Ristorante at 11:30a.m.

For more information, Please Call, 800-651-8466.

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Local teen relapses with rare form of Leukemia

Submitted by Anna Didio on Tuesday, September 18th, 3:51 pm
Local teen relapses with rare form of Leukemia

 

COLUMBIA COUNTY – A high school sophomore from Columbia County is fighting for her life after relapsing with a rare form of leukemia that is only seen in 40 cases in the US and Europe combined.

Brianna and her mother are now living in Manhattan during treatment because the doctors do not feel it safe for Brianna to travel, while her step-father is home.

There is not much information or "cure" rates as this is something relatively new to doctors.

The family has created a facebook support page and family friends are holding a fundraiser to help alleviate the family’s financial burdens. 

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Public Health clinincs held

Submitted by Andrew Murphy, Web Producer
Thursday, August 30th, 2012, 1:08pm

NORTH ADAMS - The Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice of Northern Berkshire will offer several public health clinics in the region in September.  The clinics include blood pressure and blood sugar screening, medication reviews, heights and weights, and health teaching.

Public health clinics are offered Tuesday, Sept. 11 and Thursday, Sept. 13 and again Tuesday, Sept. 25 and Thursday, Sept. 27 at the VNA & Hospice’s new headquarters, 99 Hospital Avenue on the campus of North Adams Regional Hospital in North Adams, from 3-4 p.m.

In Adams, clinics will be held at Barrett House, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 10-11 a.m.; Valley Street Apartments, Thursday, Sept. 13, 10-11 a.m.; at Millhouse Apartments, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 10-11 a.m.; and at the Adams Council on Aging, Thursday, Sept. 27, 10-11 a.m.

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CDPHP Document Fair to aid public with advance directives

Submitted by Emma Levine, WNYT Web Producer
Friday, August 10th, 2012, 2:39pm
CDPHP Document Fair to aid public with advance directives

The CDPHP Document Fair will be held on Thursday, Aug. 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Beltrone Living Center. The center is located at 6 Winners Circle in Albany.

CDPHP and the Colonie Senior Service Centers, Inc. have teamed up to provide the public with the free document fair to help guide through the process of completing advance directives.

According to CDPHP, these legal documents serve as written instructions regarding preferred medical care in case a person is unable to communicate their wishes.

Area attorneys will be at the event to walk people through the process.

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