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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded The Guidance Center a two-year...

PITTSBURGH — Experts say we are in for a busy wildfire and hurricane season this fall and the American Red Cross needs volunteers to help. The coronav...

No two women are the same. But when it comes to breast cancer, women from all walks of life share various risk factors for a disease that the World He...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Every year for the past two decades, nurses have ranked at the top of the Gallup Poll’s list of most trusted professions. Now, duri...

Since the novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March, many questions have been on the tops of people’s minds....

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and assisted liv...

The world is perilous enough for the average senior citizen without a highly contagious, potentially deadly new virus causing a global outbreak of dis...

After four agonizing months with virtually no games to watch, a sports fan’s plate is now full with Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Ass...

Millions of people across the globe get flu shots each year. Flu shots protect people against influenza, but they might provide even greater benefits ...

Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital employees packed 450 backpacks last week with a variety of school supplies which wi...

While many people across the nation responded to the arrival of COVID-19 by putting on “pandemic pounds” and feeling a sense of isolation and even dep...

Between the jigs, hops, points, switches, clicks and batters at an Irish dance class, a partnership was born. Some of the students and teachers in Fin...

When it comes to describing his goal for The Lift Project, founder Darren Morton has three words. “It’s a big, hairy, audacious goal,” the associate p...

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted an uptick in delivery services as more people are heeding the warning to stay inside to limit the spread of COVI...

The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out countless events and altered many more since March. But wellness coordinators from the FLASHP consortium have h...

Doug Schmidt, Bill Bowe, Diane Neal, Brenda Gowan and Maura Kostraba have been leaders in their school districts’ efforts to improve the health and we...

As the population health and well-being consultant for the Finger Lakes Area School Health Plan, Ken Foresti’s goal is to find ways to better the live...

The Finger Lakes Area School Health Plan is getting a bit more social — which is to say the consortium that includes 37 educational entities across it...

Certain age groups may be more vulnerable to the novel coronavirus, but none has an absolute zero likelihood of contracting COVID-19. The pandemic is ...

Angela Ballard knows sweat. She is an educator and advocate of hyperhidrosis, in which the sweat glands produce more sweat than usual. She’s also a wi...