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While the Biden administration rushes to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation’s rear-view mirror ahead of the midterm elections, its premature deci...

As public health agencies scramble to contain the monkeypox outbreak that has infected about 10,000 Americans, the federal government has done nothing...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania departments of Education, Health, Human Services and Insurance are reminding families to ensure their children’s immuniz...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — More than a thousand wild birds of 55 species have been infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza, which also is known as...

We are in the middle of two very important health care-themed weeks: World Immunization Week and National Infant Immunization Week. I know, I know, we...

A new Pennsylvania law protects your right to be informed about what issues government officials plan to deliberate or act upon at public meetings. Th...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians experiencing “spring fever,” that perennial urge to venture outdoors to hike, hunt, fish and explore, should plan now to p...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The “rare but dangerous” deer tick virus that was found at its highest infection rate ever inClearfield Countyin January has been f...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The ongoing detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds and domestic flocks in several Eastern and Midwestern state...

SMETHPORT — Penn State Extension offers a series of workshops, conferences, and self-paced education, online and by mail, designed to help Pennsylvani...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Researchers have not discovered the cause of the mystery bird disease that killed large numbers of songbirds inPennsylvaniaand nine...

HARRISBURG — A lawyer for Pennsylvania’s acting health secretary on Wednesday defended the validity of the secretary’s order requiring masks inside K-...

SMETHPORT — McKean County commissioners have proclaimed October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the county. During the commissioners’ meeting Tues...

Over approximately the past 15 months we have acquired a new vocabulary. We have become accustomed to knowing the meaning of “shelter-in-place,” “soci...

There is a lot that should have been learned from the pandemic. How science can advance when government is a partner instead of a gatekeeper. How impo...

TAR SPOT: Tar spot, a fungal leaf disease, was positively identified in a cornfield in Lancaster County this week. First discovered in Pennsylvania in...

The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a series of setbacks to children’s health. For most of last year, pediatricians reported that parents concerned abo...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A state lawmaker in Allegheny County will soon introduce a bill to give teenagers the option to supersede the will of their vaccine...

The unexpected call came in the middle of June. It was from long-time friend Patti Crist, wife of Chuck, the former four-sport MVP at Salamanca High S...

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on Salamanca native Bradley Poole, who intends to run 300 miles in three days to raise both mon...