After smoking 1-2 packs a day for 45 years, COPD and emphysema finally caught up with Roy Pillischafske, 60, of Springfield. Fortunately, he enrolled in a Freedom from Smoking class at the Memorial Center for Learning and Innovation. Sponsored by…
A woman faces a deluge of decisions when she learns she’s expecting a baby, and deciding what and how to feed the baby is one of the biggies. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies be breastfed exclusively for…
“Overwhelming” is how Erma Tester, 80, describes the grief she experienced when Everett, her husband of 63 years, passed away in the fall of 2012. She cried for seven months straight and couldn’t sleep at night. The anxiety and depression…