Recent Stories
You Get and You Give at the Cancer Community Center
Marcia Gelkey and Pat Deignan I was at a meeting recently at the Cancer Community Center in South Portland and happened to notice two women painting brightly colored designs on [...]
Celebrate the Taste of Eating Right
Sometimes when you’re shopping for food or cooking a meal, don’t you wish you had a nutrition expert by your side to help you make healthy choices? If so, you’re in luck, because we’re going [...]
Catching Health with Diane Atwood is on TV!
I’m excited to announce that I was on the WCSH6 WLBZ2 Morning Report today and will be returning every other Tuesday at about 6:45 am. It was so great to be back on the air [...]
Thanks to Love and a Conscientious Doctor Chuck Kelley Caught His Colon Cancer Early
When Chuck and Jo-Ellen Kelley were married 23 years ago, she told him that since she went for yearly medical checkups, she expected him to do the same. “After all,” she says, “we promised that [...]
Brain Injury Voices Wins a National Award. It’s a Big, Big Deal.
Congratulations to Brain Injury Voices for being one of four hospital volunteer programs in the United States to win the prestigious HAVE Award (Hospital Award for Volunteer Excellence). The national award is sponsored by the [...]
How My Sister Manages Her Fear of Needles
My sister Becky has always been afraid of needles. When she was little and needed a shot, she might make it through the procedure, but would faint half way to the car. The incident that [...]