Healthy Living
Healthy Living is a weekly news segment, seen Tuesday's on TV5 News at 5:00pm. Local Doctors from Eastern Maine Medical Center discuss important health issues that concern you and your family. For supplemental information, and to review archives, visit the Healthy Living website.
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Healthy Living
How much cancer risk is there in getting a CAT scan? By- Dr. Joan Pellegrini This is a very difficult question to answer. However, there is a growing concern about what that answer may be...
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Healthy Living: SPF Sunscreens
By- Dr. Amy Movius If you’ve gone sunscreen shopping this summer (and I hope you have!) the options available are mind-boggling. A few years ago, it was rare to find a sunscreen SPF (sun...
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Healthy Living: Eating Disorders
How to Talk About These Problems By- Dr. David Prescott Eating disorders continue to be a major concern in America, as people struggle to find a balance between increasing rates of obesity,...
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Keeping Your Cool: Understanding Heat Related Illness By- Dr. Amy Movius Tourists flock to Maine for the glorious summers; natives wait all year to enjoy it. However, when the temperature...
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Health Watch: Binge Drinking – Short and Long Term Consequences
By- Dr. David Prescott Binge Drinking and Alcoholism: Most of us are well aware of the risks associated with excessive alcohol use. Over 14 million people abuse alcohol at any given point in...
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CHRONIC PAIN MAY NEED A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACH By- Dr. Joan Marie Pellegrini Many of us probably know someone with chronic pain. If you do, then you may also be familiar with the...
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Calcium & Vitamin D Calcium is critical to health through all stages of life. And Vitamin D is critical to maintaining calcium balance. And yet we do not get enough of...
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National Drinking Water Safety Week By- Dr. Joan Pellegrini Every year the Federal Government, along with organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Water...
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Spanking: What are the Potential Effects?
By- Dr. David Prescott – Acadia Hospital The Controversy Around Spanking: Arguments about the potential benefits and drawbacks of spanking as a means of child discipline have been ongoing for...
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Keeping your Facts – and Fats – Straight By- Dr. Amy Movius Most of us know that a healthy diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fiber – and low in fat. In fact, it is...
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Orono Man Charged With Murder of Nichole Cable
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Convicted Sex Offender from Charleston Going to Prison for 35 Years
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Glenburn Woman Sentenced for Stealing From Beagle Rescue Group
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Maine House Approves Bill to Pay Hospital Debt
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Friends Say Nichole Cable Knew Her Accused Killer
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Red Cross Explains How Mainers Can Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims
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Business Breakfast in Bangor Focuses on Bonds
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Behind the Market - Part 2
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Oxford Casino Sale Awaits State Approval
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Brewers Prepare to "Tap into Summer"
Breaking News from CBS
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Poll: Teens migrating to Twitter over Facebook
Teens say too many adults on Facebook and too much sharing of teenage angst and inane details like what friend ate for dinner
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Attorney General Holder: Drones killed 4 Americans since 2009
Only one of those Americans, Anwar al-Awlaki, was targeted for his involvement in various terror plots
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Colo. shooting suspect's bank records, iPod searched by investigators
Records show James Holmes received six shipments of ammunition from online retailer, carried iPhone with photos of theater where massacre occurred
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Video: "Now You See Me" stars talk crime caper at N.Y. premiere
Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Ruffalo are starring in "Now You See Me," a new thriller about a group of magicians who steal from the rich and give to the poor. Freeman, Caine, Eisenberg and Ruffalo spoke to CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi at the film's red carpet New York premiere.
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Video: Tamerlan Tsarnaev's friend, killed by FBI, responsible for triple homicide
Ibragim Todashev, a friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was killed in Orlando, Fla. The FBI and Mass. State police were interviewing the Chechen immigrant about an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Mass. when he turned violent. Ines Ferre reports.