cancer

OLEAN, N.Y. — October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the ongoing mission of the Pink Pumpkin Project to make sure no one is fighting b...

DuBOIS — Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers for women in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that approximately 310,...

DuBOIS — Practically everyone has had an infection at some point in their life. Most people take an antibiotic and they recover. However, it is import...

DuBOIS — Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. Approximately 1 in 8 me...

Cancer patients can ward off waves of vomiting after treatment with a relatively cheap anti-nausea pill, but some are running into coverage limits. Do...

Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital (OGH), Kaleida Health facilities, will host the Second Annual Pulse of the C...

Wyatt Skillman, 19, was simply enjoying his summer like any other teenager when suddenly his life and health took a drastic turn at the end of July. H...

HINSDALE: A lot of local folks have visited the Haunted Hinsdale House, which has been made into a research center and museum by current owner, Daniel...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — An innovative study of a breast cancer vaccine is officially underway, as UPMC announced Thursday that the first participant had re...

OLEAN, N.Y. — The Olean General Hospital Foundation (OGHF) held its fourteenth annual Golf to Fight Cancer golf tournament on May 22 at the Bartlett C...

This year’s Fretz Mini Relay carnival was a great success. Students and staff of Floyd C. Fretz Middle School came together this year to raise $9,600 ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Faking it until you make it may be a common practice in some careers. But it’s clearly unethical for scientists and medical researche...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – St. Bonaventure men’s basketball head coach Mark Schmidt has been named the 2024 honoree for the national Coaches vs. Cancer C...

Patients and their doctors count on cancer screening tests to save lives, and yet a number of large, controlled studies are showing disappointing resu...

It is a tough situation that can also be uncomfortable—a colleague is diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness, and you want to do something, bu...

There is an old joke that asks, How do you get to Carnegie Hall? The answer, of course: practice, practice, practice. While Dr. Gopala Ramineni’s advi...

STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — Thon 2022 raised $13,756,374.50, the organizers of the 46-hour dance marathon announced at the Bryce Jordan Center on Sunday aft...

More women than ever before are surviving breast cancer. The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) reports that breast cancer death rates have decl...

When the McKean County Relay for Life kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday in Veterans Square it will represent the first time the event has been held in dow...

COUDERSPORT — Last week, UPMC Cole cancer center staff and leaders celebrated becoming part of the world-renowned UPMC Hillman Cancer Center network. ...