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The proportion of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations among vaccinated Pennsylvania residents rose sharply last month, though the shot remained b...

HARRISBURG — The state Senate on Wednesday voted to extend waivers of an array of regulatory statutes, rules and regulations to aid in Pennsylvania’s ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — When the story of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it will need to include several chapters — perhaps several volumes — about the...

A year and a half into the pandemic, the long-feared specter of rationed health care — that is, the delay or denial of medical treatment to some patie...

Millions of Americans are now eligible to receive a Pfizer booster shot to help increase their protection against the worst effects of the coronavirus...

DONALDSON (AP) — A bus carrying high school students and leaders returning from a church retreat crashed in Pennsylvania, injuring more than two dozen...

Rosie Goris lost two family members and a close friend to COVID-19. So it was a no-brainer that she would agree to host a vaccination clinic at her Yo...

“Save Bradford Hospital,” a grassroots community group hoping to keep its local hospital from curtailing needed services, will hold a town hall meetin...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The vast majority of Pennsylvanians who have contracted the coronavirus in 2021 were not vaccinated, state officials say, releasi...

HARRISBURG — The union that represents corrections officers in Pennsylvania prisons wants a state court to intervene over the governor’s recent mandat...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — UPMC continues to push monoclonal antibody treatment, giving it to 5,700 patients, including 2,300 during the past month amid a COV...

FRANKLINVILLE, N.Y. — One week after her 55th birthday, Angela Schadt found herself at Olean General Hospital with a terrible cough, shortness of brea...

This first in what promises to be a series of town hall meetings concerning the fate of Bradford Hospital has been scheduled for 7-9 p.m. Monday, Sept...

This is a time of year which I dread. It’s a happy time for one reason, my mother’s birthday. This year is the big 2-9 — well, the 62nd anniversary of...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — UPMC rebounded from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic in December, more than doubling operating income and finishing the first si...

The group of concerned citizens hoping to restore full services to Bradford Regional Medical Center has obtained political support for its mission. St...

Health insurance companies today can legally charge smokers up to 50% more in premiums than non-smokers, based on the simple fact that smokers have ma...

During the past 18 months, a number of area families were unable to mourn loved ones who died from COVID-19 in the hospital or nursing home due to loc...

During the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic, my brother and I congratulated each other that we had little to fear. Descended from hardy Irish peasa...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Overburdened health care systems from Texas to Florida are pleading with Western Pennsylvania hospitals to take on transfer patient...