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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Independence Health System has introduced a new service that capitalizes on an overwhelming patient medical need and two new medici...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford is one of only 145 universities and colleges around the world to be honored by Exercise is Medicine® for its ...

DuBOIS — Did you know that most babies in the United States have been breastfed? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 83.1% of...

Premier Sponsors Allegheny Bradford Corporation and the Philo & Sarah Blaisdell Foundation, along with Lead Sponsor Zippo/Case Museum, presented this ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency greatly underestimated how much money it needed to spend on the COVID-19 pandemic and now might not have enoug...

ST. MARYS — Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI), a non-profit organization and affiliate of Journey Health System, announced a generous donation by Acrisure t...

SMETHPORT — A new provider has joined the Smethport Family Health Center, a primary care practice owned and operated by Olean General Hospital (OGH) a...

This year marks 50 years of Evergreen Elm’s services supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities and mental health disorders. Evergreen Elm ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A 20-year-old U.K. university student “died for 25 minutes” in a hospital in the U.S. after getting “extreme sunburn” during his ti...

PORT ALLEGANY — Northern Pennsylvania Regional College’s Workforce Development department is providing an opportunity for McKean County area residents...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Just as coronavirus transmission fluctuated in waves, so too have our responses to it. The world is four years from the acute phase...

Seven years and many stops and starts later, YWCA McKean finally cut the ribbon on its sparkling new 13,000-square-foot facility at 72 Congress St., t...

Passwords are part of our daily lives and can at times be frustrating. Creating them and remembering them can be stressful. But a poor password can ca...

HeartStrings Gift Shop, located on the ground floor of Bradford Regional Medical Center, is more than just a cute place to find adorable nicknacks. It...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson announced the Dickinson Center Building Project in St. Marys as the recipient of a $750,000 grant from the Appal...

DuBOIS — Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third most common cause of disease-related death in Americans, even though it is often pr...

HARRISBURG (TNS) —The Pennsylvania Insurance Department will soon have the tools necessary to rein in retail prescription costs by regulating drug mid...

PETS: We know this is ground we’ve covered before, but it’s important for people and for animals, too. It’s the power of pets. We’re not talking about...

ERIE — Community Blood Bank, the exclusive provider of blood and blood products to 16 hospitals in Northwest Pennsylvania and Western New York, as wel...

Some disabled Americans on Social Security aren’t out of work solely because of their medical condition. Social Security payments themselves may “also...