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Medicare Advantage was supposed to save taxpayers money when it was created in 2003. Instead, it costs the government 22% more per enrollee than tradi...

DuBOIS — Lung cancer is the third most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S., and according to the American Lung As...

FORGETFUL: Ever have one of those days when you can’t find your car keys? And where is that other shoe? Did you take your morning medicine? It can be ...

NAPS: The room gets warm, your mind starts to wander, the yawning starts. And your eyes blink shut, a little longer each time. Do you fight it, or jus...

HARRISBURG — In a report issued by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, disparities in domestic violence reporting between rural and urban communities r...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Every morning and night, 7-year old Ford Bartle drinks a smoothie with nine pills crushed up inside. Those pills — newly approved b...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — UPMC in its most recent financial disclosure blamed a $371 million operating loss on increased medical utilization and rising pharm...

RIDGWAY — Dickinson Center’s Employment Support Services celebrated National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October. Michelle Pastore earned...

SMETHPORT — A mobile food bank sponsored by St. Elizabeth Church and Second Harvest Food Bank of Erie will be held Dec. 10 at St. Elizabeth Church in ...

Not to be confused with UPMC, Universal Primary Care — or UPC — will soon expand its services in the Bradford area. Currently, UPC occupies a small cl...

HARRISBURG — For Pennsylvanians, there are a few days left to complete the Maternal Health Strategic Plan Survey, part of the Shapiro administration’s...

A recent report by thePennsylvania Institutional Law Project(PILP) has highlighted major improvements to addiction treatments in jails and prisons acr...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President-elect Donald Trump’s economic legacy may well depend on whether he prefers the comparative form of an adjective. Specifical...

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II's New Year honors list makes knights and dames out of some of Britain's best loved stage and screen stars even as it ...

Under President Joe Biden, the Department of Health and Human Services has created a “diversity, equity and inclusion” infrastructure of dizzying comp...

The success of every community across Pennsylvania depends on the health and well-being of its people. At U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Develop...

OLEAN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College recently received approval to offer credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor training for ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, or PHC4, has released the third and final volume of its annual report on the finan...

KERSEY — Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI), a non-profit affiliate of Journey Health System, announced a donation from Liberty Pressed Metals (LPM) in suppo...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — About 25 years ago, my family was vacationing inNew Jersey, and my dad and I went golfing. On the way to the course, the car starte...