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EMPORIUM — A Penn State Extension in-person workshop will provide evidence-based training aimed at saving lives and reducing suicidal behaviors. The w...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A Virginia company is expanding its partnership with the University of Pittsburgh with a $10 million investment designed to improve...

YORK — To fight prescription drug misuse, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day creates convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwi...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—The Penbrook Police Department on Tuesday issued a statement defending their response to calls for help from Cody Balmer’s mother bef...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—A western Pennsylvania county has officially declared it has a measles outbreak. The Erie County Health Department (ECDH) said in a p...

DuBOIS — Does your driver’s license include the little red heart with the words “Organ Donor” at the bottom? If not, why wait? April is National Donat...

HARRISBURG — The Center for Rural Pennsylvania Board of Directors held a public hearing April 8 at the Capitol Building to advance awareness and suppo...

DEAR ABBY: I am a single man with no siblings. My elderly father passed away eight months ago. My mother is now in hospice with a life expectancy of w...

We live in a country where majority rules — from local governments to the very peak of federal power. Those who get the most votes win. In that same v...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants communities to stop fluoridating water, and he is setting the gears of g...

Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC), a Kaleida Health facility, has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography as the result o...

BRYN MAWR — Aqua Pennsylvania is a leader in testing drinking water for PFAS, commonly known as “forever chemicals.” A robot is the latest tool in Aqu...

Is the Washington Post journalistically challenged when it comes to science? You decide. An April 6 article in the WaPo , one of the most recent as th...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — In an environment of change and challenge, the Enchanted Mountains Village (EMVi) and the DePerro School of Health Professions...

HARRISBURG — The debate over whether children should undergo gender transition treatments has grown in fervor since Election Day, though a pending bil...

HARRISBURG — Rep. Kathy L. Rapp, R-Warren, chair of the House Health Committee, announced the committee has unanimously approved a bill that would exp...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A group of prominent U.S. senators is demanding answers about the Trump administration's sweeping cuts to a mine health and safety ...

DuBOIS — Women are frequently advised to schedule their annual mammograms and men a blood test for PSA to screen for prostate cancer. The list of adul...

States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out fro...

States and the federal government spent $4.3 billion on Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of patients who were already insured in other states, accor...