Health

(AP)  The New York state attorney general's office is warning New Yorkers against scam robocalls targeting seniors and offering free medical alert equipment with back-end fees for monitoring. 

The agency says it received consumer queries about a scam targeting seniors by saying they have been ``approved'' for the equipment at ``no charge.'' 

The calls warn of injuries and deaths because of delayed responses to medical emergencies, fires, burglaries and falls. 

Planned Parenthood of the Rochester/Syracuse Region and Planned Parenthood of Western New York are merging, and the outgoing CEO of the local agency says it will be a stronger organization as a result.
Jim Stewart says this puts together the strengths of two very effective organizations in a single entity that is strengthened for the future.
He says between the two organizations, they serve about 36-thousand patients, 50 thousand education clients, and locally about 14-hundred survivors of sexual assault.

  Abdominal aortic aneurysms are one of the top ten causes of death in men over the age of 55, and upstate New York has higher rates of this condition than the rest of the country.

Researchers are now working on patient-specific diagnosis and treatment for the condition.

Celebrity actress Angelina Jolie recently underwent a double mastectomy after learning she had an increased risk for breast cancer. A doctor at the University of Rochester's Medical Center says this is the same life-changing decision thousands of women in our area are forced to make every year.