Tagged: disease

7:01pm

Sun April 28, 2013
Health

Prostate cancer: to treat or not to treat?

Credit Hematology/Oncology Associates of Central New York / hoacny.com

This week on Take Care, Dr. Anthony Scalzo talks about the diagnosis of the most common cancer for men -- prostate cancer -- and its treatments. Dr. Scalzo is a medical oncologist at Hematology/Oncology Associates of Central New York, and medical advisor for the support group Man to Man, which helps men cope with prostate cancer and is sponsored by the American Cancer Society.

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9:17am

Thu April 11, 2013
Health

Organization tries to encourage organ donation

Credit Ellen Abbott/WRVO

New York state has one of the lowest organ donation rates in the country, at 20 percent. Donor boosters are trying to get the word out that donating an organ is something most everyone can do to save a life.

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4:13pm

Tue March 19, 2013
Health

Deaths from Alzheimer's disease increasing in the region

More and more people across the country are dying from Alzheimer's disease -- and central New York is not immune to the trend.

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3:55pm

Thu December 13, 2012
Science

New stem cell facility to be available to scientists statewide

Credit Kate O'Connell/Innovation Trail

A new facility in upstate New York is being touted as the ‘bridge’ from research to stem cell therapies that could potentially cure conditions like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and spinal damage.

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