04.17.2015 Health Health Beat: East End Garden Festival set for May 7-10 • The 20th annual East End Garden Festival to benefit Peconic Bay Medical Center will take place Thursday-Saturday, May 7-9, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, May...
04.12.2015 Health Health column: Take a bite out of lyme Chances are if you don’t have Lyme disease you know someone who does. Taking the necessary steps to prevent tick bites when you venture into the great outdoors becomes...
03.22.2015 Health Health Column: DNA test can screen for colorectal cancer Between the dreaded preparation and procedure itself, no one would call getting a colonoscopy a barrel of laughs.
03.21.2015 Health Health Beat: PBMC hosting Insulin Pump Therapy Seminar • Peconic Bay Medical Center and the Long Island Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will present an Insulin Pump Therapy Seminar Monday, March 23, from 7 to 8:30...
03.14.2015 Health Health Beat: Blood, eyeglass drive in Mattituck • The Mattituck Fire Department and Mattituck Lions Club will jointly sponsor a blood and eyeglass drive at the Pike Street firehouse Saturday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to 1:30...
03.08.2015 Health Health Column: To squat — or not? One of 2014’s hottest holiday items wasn’t an expensive electronic device or an innovative kitchen gadget. It was a $25 plastic toilet stool called a Squatty Potty — and...
03.07.2015 Health Health Beat: ‘Learn to Be … Tobacco Free’ • Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead will host an epilepsy support group Monday, March 9, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the resource room off the front lobby....
02.21.2015 Health Health Column: Breathing yourself to stressless sleep You know when you’re lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking how badly you’d like to fall asleep? It usually happens after thinking of just about everything else,...