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For today's latest in health segment, we look at solutions for two different kinds of patients -- one for those with genetic diseases and another for…

Prenatal genetic testing used to only be given to pregnant women with risk factors and those over age 35. But now, with new non-invasive procedures, new…

The number of syphilis cases has increased dramatically in recent years in central New York. It used to be that when there was an outbreak of syphilis in…

The stethoscope may be the most recognizable tool in healthcare. It’s used to listen to the internal sounds of the body, and can be found in almost every…

Like something straight out of science fiction, the use of diagnostic imaging allows doctors to “see” inside the human body without physically opening it…

Upstate Medical University has a new tool that can help diagnose one of the most common cancers that strikes men. The hospital is one of the first in the…

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men. But many of those malignancies develop so slowly, the patient is never effected by it. That fact has…