Health & Fitness

Enterovirus D68

Dr. J. Michael Klatte, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at Baystate Medical Center, discusses Enterovirus D68, which is causing respiratory health concerns for parents and children here in Massachusetts and across the country. Baystate Health Website Follow...

Mike Quincy: Pan Mass Challenge

Familiar to Connecting Point viewers as our resident car expert, Consumer Reports Auto Content Specialist Mike Quincy is an avid bicyclist as well. As he has for many years, Mike will be participating in the annual Pan Mass Challenge in August, a bike ride which...

Eating Disorders

Up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder in the U.S. Jim Greenblatt, Chief Medical Officer of Walden Behavioral Care and author of a new book, “Answers to Appetite Control,” talks about the struggles with eating and also different...

Web Exclusive: The Annoying Mole

Deb Girard, Executive Director of the Melanoma Foundation of New England, and Tania Chrzanowski, melanoma survivor and educator at South Hadley High, talk about a new public awareness campaign called “The Annoying Mole” about checking not ignoring any...

Mt. Everest Avalanche

Mike Matty—who successfully summited Mt. Everest—discusses the recent avalanche that killed many of the Sherpas who assist Everest climbers and the impact that event has had ending this year’s planned ascents of the world’s highest...

Mental Health Awareness Month

Bernice Drumheller, President of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Western Massachusetts, discusses the work the organization does to help individuals and their families dealing with mental illness. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. National...

Bike Week

Soon it’ll be Bike Week in MA…and no, not motorcycles! Josiah Neiderbach, planner at Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and Jim Sotiropoulos, director of the Pioneer Valley Riverfront Club in Springfield talk about Baystate Bike Week which is May 10th –...

GMO Food Labeling

A GMO (genetically modified organism) food labeling bill was first filed by state representative Ellen Story from Amherst eight years ago is finally out of committee and will soon potentially go to the floor for a vote. Stephanie Kraft, a “Valley Advocate” reporter,...

Autism Speaks

Your baby is not showing the normal signs of development and just have that nagging feeling that something isn’t right. The doctor confirms the worst—your child has autism. Monica Donnelly is from and lives in West Springfield & is 2014 co-chair of the...