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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Attracting Danger
We've all seen infants and toddlers put things in their mouths, it's normal. But if you're child puts a magnet in his or her mouth, be careful. TV5 health advisor Dr. Amy Movius talks about...
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Healthy Living: Mental Health in the Armed Forces
By- Dr. Anthony Ng With the winding down of the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, this has been met with relief and joy with the prospect of lessening loss of American lives. Over the past 10...
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Healthy Living: Shyness and Social Anxiety
By- Dr. David Prescott Holidays like July 4th is often a time to get together with family, friends, or larger crowds of people. However, for some people social situations like this invoke...
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Healthy Living: Safety Concerns with Starting a Camp Fire
By: Dr. Joan Marie Pellegrini It is summer and now is the time that many people want to burn brush or have a camp fire. However, it can sometimes be fairly difficult getting a fire started...
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Healthy Living: Self Injury in Children
By: Dr. Anthony Ng A phenomenon that occurs in many children is the act of self injury. Such self injury will come in various types. It may range from cutting self to hitting oneself. In a...
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Problem Gambling and Pathological Gambling
Problem Gambling and Pathological Gambling: When Do You Cross the Line? Health Watch - June, 2012 David Prescott, Ph.D. - EMMC Behavioral Medicine Program Problem Gambling and...
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Dr. David Prescott - Eastern Maine Medical Center Behavioral Medicine Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: No Amount of Alcohol is Known to Be Safe During Pregnancy: Disorders caused by alcohol...
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"How to Deal with Traumatic Loss"
Dr. Anthony Ng One of the toughest experiences we have all faced or will face one day is the loss of a loved one like family or spouse or close friends and colleagues. Such losses may be...
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New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
By: Joan Pellegrini, MD Good news for women: gone are the days of recommending annual Pap exams. So, why did the guidelines change? It turns out that more frequent screening was turning up...
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Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease 2012 Amy Movius MD Human Lyme Disease started in Connecticut in the 1970s and hit Maine in 1987. Lyme disease starts as a disease of animals. First, a deer ticks bites an...
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A Spectacular Day For Seniors In Bangor
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Internet Safety Tips
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Troop Greeters Celebrate Milestone
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Orono High School Students Get Lesson in Wabanaki History
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Search Continues for Nichole Cable; Deputies Looking for Truck
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UPDATE: Police Looking for Truck Involved with Nichole Cable Case
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Body Found in Rubble of Monroe Fire
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Kenduskeag Fire Damages Home
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Teens Try to Help Find Missing Friend
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Video: Time Lapse: Montreal by Winter
Stunning time lapse video exhibits the relationship between Montreal, its residents and winter. Video courtesy of Stephane Hoareau Timecode Lab.
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Video: "Best friends" remember Hadiya Pendleton
Hadiya Pendleton's young life was cut short when she became the unintended victim of a gang-related shooting. Her friends talks to "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher about what made the 15-year-old so special.
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Video: David Muhammad takes a stand against gangs
Living in one of the most violent districts in the city, a Chicago man risks his own life to rid his street corner of drug dealers and gangs. His weapon of choice? A video camera.
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Video: Street gangs are "selling death and misery in the form of heroin"
Special agent Jack Riley, head of the Chicago-area division of the DEA, talks to CBS News correspondent Armen Keteyian about the connection between gang-related shootings and drugs in his city.
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Video: Anti-violence group aims to heal community
CeaseFire is an anti-violence community group made up of some former gang members. The group's director, Bob Jackson, says the goal is to heal the wounds between the community and gangs. "Even gang members are looking for intervention now."