The Westfield News
Health
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669The ‘Organic Halo’
Is eating organic actually healthier? As a registered dietitian, I get a lot of questions regarding the health benefits of organic foods...
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741Baystate Noble patients consider legal action
By STEPHANIE McFEETERS @mcfeeters Daily Hampshire Gazette WESTFIELD — Kathy Pitoniak wasn’t too keen on the idea of a colonoscopy but, as...
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758Colonoscopy exposure risk goes beyond Baystate Noble
WESTFIELD (WWLP) – Almost 300 patients who received colonoscopies at Noble Hospital could have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis...
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What legal rights do Baystate Noble Hospital patients have?
WESTFIELD (WWLP) – If you are one of the 293 patients who was possibly exposed to blood-borne diseases at the Baystate Noble...
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6891 dead in listeria outbreak linked to packaged lettuce
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Packaged salads produced at a Dole facility in Ohio are linked to one death...
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3.6KNoble Express and Primary Care opens in Feeding Hills
FEEDING HILLS – Baystate Noble Hospital recently opened the 6,000 square-foot Noble Express Care at 24 N. Westfield St. The clinic offers...
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748Prevent cancer with vegetables
To hear you have cancer is incredibly scary. Cancer is a very broad word for a group of diseases all with one...
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Ex-nurse pleads guilty to stealing drugs from hospital
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A former nurse at a Massachusetts hospital has pleaded guilty to stealing powerful prescription painkillers meant for patients...
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Springfield gets $85k annual anti-drug grant
BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) today awarded $6.8 million in grants to support Strategic...
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645State launches comprehensive digital health initiative
BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Speaker Robert A. DeLeo and executives from the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership (MACP)...
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824Grants will help cities buy anti-overdose drug
BOSTON (AP) — Forty Massachusetts communities, including Westfield, are receiving state funds to help stockpile supplies of a drug that can counter...
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659Reader shares personal side of addiction: Part 2
WESTFIELD- After reading numerous stories in The Westfield News about drug arrests and convictions, a reader felt the media isn’t telling the...
