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: Binge Drinking IS a Big Deal
By- Dr. Anthony Ng “It is no big deal.” This is often a statement that one may hear when one tells a friend or family member who drinks too much on occasions. This drinking excessively is...
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Healthy Living: Flu Season
Don't get fooled by the relatively warm weather. It's still flu season. TV 5 Health Advisor Dr. Erik Steele spoke on TV 5's News at 5 with Jim Morris on being pro-active.Don't get fooled by the...
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Healthy Living- Early Recognition and Intervention: One Key to Good Mental Health
By- Dr. David Prescott The Tragedy of Lost Time: It would be almost unimaginable to think about breaking your leg and then waiting two years before you went to get it fixed. Yet, two years is...
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Healthy Living: Realistic Resolutions
By- Dr. Joan Marie Pellegrini Most of us start thinking about our New Year's resolution about this time of year. Common resolutions are to lose weight, eat more healthfully, get more...
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Healthy Living: Avoiding Dangerous Toys
By- Dr. Amy Movius Kids love toys! And who doesn’t love seeing the excitement and joy of a child playing with a well loved one? Anyone with a child on their holiday list has probably noticed...
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Healthy Living: Holiday Stress
By- Dr. Anthony Ng Christmas holidays are upon us. It is filled with joy, celebration, anticipation of getting together with friends and families. For also many, it is a time of enormous...
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Healthy Living: Asthma and Acetaminophen
Should children with asthma avoid acetaminophen? (Tylenol) By- Dr. Jonathan Wood The incidence of pediatric asthma increased dramatically between 1980 and 2000. During that same time period,...
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Healthy Living: Two types of Diabetes; Know the difference
By- Dr. Jonathan Wood My work with children and teens with Type I Diabetes Mellitus and its life-threatening acute complications has led me to realize there is quite a bit of confusion about what...
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Healthy Living: Screening for Prostate Cancer
American men have about a one in six chance of getting prostate cancer and are especially vulnerable as they get older. But a panel commissioned by the U.S. Government recommends against screening...
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Healthy Living: Whooping Cough
Uncontrollable, violent coughing is one of the key symptoms of whooping cough. It's highly contagious, also highly preventable. TV5 Health Advisor Dr. Jonathan Wood joined Jim Morris on TV5...
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Bouffard New Maine Prison Warden
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Governor LePage Moving His Office
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High School Documentarians Honor Veterans
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Elementary Students Honor Their Unsung Heroes
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Weight Watchers Program Free For ME First Responders
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A Crash Course In Distracted Driving For Students In Newport
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Charleston Sex Offender Sentenced to 35 Years In Federal Prison Gets State Sentence
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Governor Vetoes Hospital/Medicaid Bill
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Maine Sports Hall of Famer Pleads No Contest to Child Porn
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North Pond Hermit's Court Appearance Postponed
Breaking News from CBS
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Kids, teachers from destroyed Okla. school reunite
Students who survived the storm gathered with their teachers at another Moore school that wasn't damaged
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Video: Okla. couple survived tornado in their closet
Lewis and Janie Haywood huddled in their closet when the 200-mile-an-hour tornado blew through and destroyed their home Monday. Now they're facing the painful question of where to rebuild.
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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
Under the proposal drafted by the Scouts' governing board, gay adults will remain barred from serving as Scout leaders
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Video: 5/23: Obama: The war on terror, "like all wars, must end"; baby born as tornado struck
Warning of the danger of keeping America on a "perpetual wartime footing," President Obama called for an end to the war on terror; and, With a tornado and a baby on the way, doctors and nurses at the Moore Medical Center really had to deliver.
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Video: Extra: Okla. dog owner and dog Bowser reunited
Moore, Oklahoma resident Barbara Garcia lost everything in this week's devastating tornado. But amid the rubble, Barbara -- and a CBS News crew -- found and rescued her beloved Bowser. "CBS This Morning" caught up with the duo several days later. Anna Werner reports.