health
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 - 5:52 pm
In the last few weeks, the owners and staff of the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz have weathered the outbreak of a nasty gastrointestinal virus, a week-long closure, the stem-to-stern disinfection of the entire resort by a 200-person cleaning crew,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 - 10:17 am
My wife's logic and humor #MoChunk pic.twitter.com/m4zFqNZk8T
— Aaron Grill (@agrill) February 1, 2014
Above: Mohonk's norovirus outbreak hits Twitter.
The Mohonk Mountain House closed its doors for a week on Friday, Feb. 7, after many guests and staff... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 - 10:46 pm
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) announced Thursday that a young child with measles had been admitted to Albany Medical Center, and that patients who were in certain parts of the hospital on Friday, Jan. 31 or Saturday, Feb. 1 may have been... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2013 - 2:36 pm
Above: The black-legged or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Photo by Scott Bauer of the USDA; published under Creative Commons license. Source: InsectImages.org.
In the Hudson Valley and across the nation, tick-borne disease is on the rise. The deer ticks... Read more
By woodstocklibrary on Saturday, Mar. 30, 2013 - 4:14 pm
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 25, 2013 - 1:01 pm
Above: Delaware County's newest healthcare facility, a 2,800-square-foot health clinic in Andes. Photo courtesy of Bassett Healthcare Network.
The doctor is officially in. Today, Bassett Healthcare announced the opening of its new health clinic on South... Read more
By mike.musante on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 - 9:59 am
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Sep. 23, 2012 - 11:37 pm
A Hudson Valley-wide measles alert was announced over the weekend after a child at the private Mountain Laurel Waldorf School in New Paltz was confirmed to have a case of the measles, the Times Herald-Record reports.
A press release issued by the New York... Read more
By Myra Foland Peaceful Valley Reiki on Friday, Jul. 6, 2012 - 9:20 am