Health & Fitness

Asthma Awareness

May is Asthma Awareness Month and pediatrician Matthew Sadoff, MD from Baystate Children’s Hospital and Community Health worker Rosa Pedraza at Baystate’s High Street Health Center in Springfield will discuss asthma and related concerns and conditions....

Bay State Bike Week

Josiah Neiderbach, Regional Coordinator for Pioneer Valley Bike Commute Week, and bicyclist Don Podolski, proprietor of New Horizons Bike Shop in Westfield, discuss the May 12-20 observance of Bay State Bike Week, as well as efforts to increases bike use to increase...

Nurse/ Midwives in Massachusetts

Nurse-midwife Annie Heath from Cooley Dickinson Center for Midwifery Care of Northampton and patients Molly and Alex (and baby William) discuss changes in Massachusetts law allowing nurse-midwives to do more for patients and the experience of working with a...

Westen Mass Knights Sled Hockey Team

Meet the Western Mass Knights, the adult sled hockey team based at Westfield’s Amelia Park Ice Arena.  For the last two years, the Knights have competed in the New England Sled Hockey Team and taken on challengers in charity games.  Producer Ray Laferriere and...

Skin Cancer Awareness

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month and skin cancer survivor Meghan Rothschild discusses her own experience as well as what we all can and should do to protect ourselves from skin cancers. Skin Care Awareness...

On Belay?! Belay On!

Carrie Saldo adds indoor rock climbing to her fitness routine. As a complete newcomer to the sport she explores who can do it – just about anyone – and just how effective, and thrilling, a work-out it can be! Indoor rock climbing provides an environment where...

MA State Board of Registration in Medicine

Philip Beattie, Manager of Investigations for the Massachusetts State Board of Registration in Medicine, lets people know about the resources the state of Massachusetts has available to the public to let them check on and learn more about their physician. He will talk...

Boston Marathon

Boston Marathon director Dave McGillivray, will speak with Carrie Saldo by phone about the 2012 race.  Runners Bill Wheeler, Cross Country coach at Belchertown High School, Robert Landry will discuss what it’s like to prepare for and run the Boston Marathon....

Children with Alopecia Day

Seven year old Owen O’Brien has Alopecia Universalis, a condition where hair grows nowhere on his body. Owen and  his parents, Nancy Grimes O’Brien and Timothy O’Brien, appear with  Dave Roback, photographer for the Republican who also has Alopecia...

Crisis Counseling

Crisis Counselors Everett Stevens and Neal Boyd from the MassSupport Network will discuss the help and services available locally to people coping with the trauma caused by the June 1st tornado which tore through western Massachusetts. MassSupport...