Healthy Living

Salt Savvy: What is in Your Food? Salt Savvy: What is in Your Food? Patient Care

Salt Savvy: What is in Your Food?

  • By Lori Barrette
  • Jun. 7, 2016
If you’re quick to add a dash of salt to your plate, you could be increasing your risk of heart disease. UR Medicine Cardiologist Dr. John Bisognano says new FDA-proposed guidelines may help people ...
Test Stress: Helping Students Manage Anxiety Test Stress: Helping Students Manage Anxiety Patient Care

Test Stress: Helping Students Manage Anxiety

  • By Lori Barrette
  • Jun. 2, 2016
As the school year winds down, kids’ anxiety over exams can ramp up. While a little test stress can be motivating, too much can derail some of the best students. UR Medicine expert Dr. Laura Cardella ...
World No Tobacco Day: Time to Quit World No Tobacco Day: Time to Quit Patient Care

World No Tobacco Day: Time to Quit

  • By Lori Barrette
  • May. 31, 2016
If World No Tobacco Day has you thinking about kicking your smoking habit, dental expert Dr. Sangeeta Gajendra offers some facts to help convince you that the time to quit is now.
It Takes Strength to Stay Active It Takes Strength to Stay Active Patient Care

It Takes Strength to Stay Active

  • By Lori Barrette
  • May. 23, 2016
It takes more than aerobic fitness to be healthy and active in your 50s and beyond. You also need to be strong. UR Medicine physical therapist Elizabeth Wetmore offers advice to combat sarcopenia, a ...
Successful Aging: Add Life to Your Years Successful Aging: Add Life to Your Years Patient Care

Successful Aging: Add Life to Your Years

  • By Lori Barrette
  • May. 20, 2016
While you may expect to live longer than your parents or grandparents did, do you know what you can do to live happier and healthier? UR Medicine healthy aging expert Dr. William Hall says that ...
What's the Reason for Your Sneezin'? What's the Reason for Your Sneezin'? Patient Care

What's the Reason for Your Sneezin'?

  • By Lori Barrette
  • May. 5, 2016
If you’re sniffling and sneezing your way through spring, you may wonder if you have a cold or seasonal allergy. UR Medicine Urgent Care’s Dr. Michael Kamali offers facts to help you find the reason ...
8 Steps to Spring into Shape 8 Steps to Spring into Shape Patient Care

8 Steps to Spring into Shape

  • By Lori Barrette
  • Apr. 25, 2016
If warm, sunny days are inspiring you to spring into action, follow this advice from UR Medicine sports medicine specialist Dr. Katie Rizzone for safely rousing your joints, tendons, ligaments and ...
5 Tips for Managing Diabetes 5 Tips for Managing Diabetes Patient Care

5 Tips for Managing Diabetes

  • By Lori Barrette
  • Apr. 6, 2016
Diabetes may be common but that doesn’t make living with it easy. While there is no cure for diabetes, people who have it must learn to manage it in order to stay healthy. UR Medicine endocrinologist ...