health sciences

How many of us know what goes into the development of the medications we take? We take a medicine and hope that it will work, that we’ll feel better s...

(TNS) With the rise of obesity drugs a pair of Penn State researchers set out to answer a question: could drugs aimed at weight loss help battle opioi...

Taxpayers spent $74.5 million to help develop the prostate cancer-fighting drug Xtandi, but its sky-high sticker price is limiting access to patients ...

HARRISBURG — "We all just need a little break. It’s been a tough hearing,” said Department of Health Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen toward the end of her t...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — February is Rare Disease Awareness month. The upcoming week has been declared Rare Disease Awareness week, with Rare Disease Day bei...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—The official number of people that have contracted bird flu in the past year, 68 to be exact, has been relatively small. A new study ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Wednesday an additional chronic wasting disease-positive deer has been detected in the northeastern part of...

DuBOIS — It’s winter and one thing that’s almost as certain as cold weather is that small children will develop ear infections. otitis media, the medi...

Got the sniffles? Is it the common cold, or the beginning of something worse that might knock you out of commission for a while? Between Sept. 29 and ...

DuBOIS — Seven students recently graduated from the Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) course at Penn Highlands Healthcare. The rigorous six-week course inclu...

OLEAN, N.Y. — HomeCare & Hospice recently established an agency fund at the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation to support the mission, programmin...

The Bradford Hospital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bradford Regional Medical Center, hosted its first local in-person event since the COVID pa...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and the state Department of Agriculture announced Friday two deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — HomeCare & Hospice Foundation is calling on local businesses, schools, and organizations to join in the mission of supporting compass...

DuBOIS — The use of telemedicine dates back to the late 1950s and 1960s when NASA developed telemedicine technology to monitor the health of astronaut...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) announced the creation of a new licensure program to obtain a telehealth-...

Kaleida Health officials have denied a rumor that Bradford Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department would be the next service shuttered at the f...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) As Pennsylvania residents began 2025, several new laws took effect, including expanded access to health care and pay raises for top...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—If you got together with friends or family this holiday season, you probably heard about someone who was, as the saying goes, as sick...

Avian influenza is suspected to have caused the deaths of about 200 snow geese found Monday in the greater Allentown area. Dead birds were recovered f...