Laurel Tormey Cole likes to teach yoga to beginners and people over 50, developing strength and flexibility and improving balance.

GUILDERLAND — Teacher Colleen Ryan’s wife, Barbara Martucci, got the news that Ryan would be receiving a new set of lungs early on the morning of the couple’s eighth wedding anniversary, Nov. 13.

Just before midnight that same day, the transplant surgery had been completed.

Rebecca Tillou, Voorheesville

Quick gratification at the expense of long-term progress, typical of the Trump administration, can be seen in rollbacks to nutrition requirements for school meals.

A first-in-the-nation program to provide no-cost or lower-cost naloxone at pharmacies across New York began on Aug. 9, according to a release from the governor’s office.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill, earlier this month, that will limit health-insurance companies’ freedom to impose “step-therapy” protocols on their insured patients. The new law will also give doctors a clearer and faster path to appealing those protocols when they are applied.

It is a busy time of year for the Venison Donation Coalition with both hunting season and the holidays underway.

As concerns over lead in public water have increased, concerns over lead contamination have gone unnoticed at public and private gun ranges.

While Courtney Rosencrans of Guilderland waits to be called to Boston for a heart transplant, the family’s medical expenses continue to mount.

A 13-month cancer treatment plan calls for a young family to stay strong. And for a community to help.