Get Healthy Tompkins E-Newsletter

The newly launched Get Healthy Tompkins website features a free online program that rewards individuals for setting and keeping small goals every three months to help them stay on track with healthier lifestyles. Read more . . .

Cayuga Medical Center's Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine announces a program that will feature three free lectures per year aimed at the care and prevention of seasonal sports related injuries for local athletes, coaches, parents, and health care professionals. Read more . . .

In April 2007, the New York Times ran an article entitled "Lessons of Heart Disease, Learned and Ignored." The article profiled a Boston cardiac patient who suffered a serious heart attack when a large blood clot in his left anterior descending artery blocked the flow of blood to most of his heart. His life was saved at Brigham and Women's Hospital by an emergency interventional procedure called angioplasty, which opened the blocked artery. Read more . . .

Island Health and Fitness, the area's premier health facility, is open to the public. There are several membership options available, along with senior and student rates. Members pay an initiation fee to join and a monthly fee to use the facilities. To learn more, call (607) 277-3861 or visit the Web site at www.islandhealthfitness.com. You are also invited to stop by the Island Health Center for a visit - at the corner of Buffalo Street and Route 89, on the Inlet.

If you are looking for help in making medically necessary lifestyle changes, talk to your doctor about the Cayuga Center for Healthy Living. The Cayuga Center for Healthy Living, under the direction of Geoffrey E. Moore, MD, FACSM, is located on the 5th floor of the Island Health Center, Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca. Read more . . .

 
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