immunology

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

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Coronavirus cases among school-age children in Pennsylvania were nearly 10 times greater last week than during the same period in...

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...

The battle lines in the war on COVID-19 have been getting blurrier, as infections surge and studies offer changing and sometimes conflicting data on e...

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

You don’t have to be a scientist to muster convincing arguments in favor of commonsense measures for combating COVID-19. COVID spreads through the air...

The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a series of setbacks to children’s health. For most of last year, pediatricians reported that parents concerned abo...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A state lawmaker in Allegheny County will soon introduce a bill to give teenagers the option to supersede the will of their vaccine...

Former President Donald Trump experienced something new during his rally in Mobile, Alabama, Saturday night: He was briefly booed. That never happens ...

In December 2020, the first shots in the war against covid-19 were fired into the arms of health care workers with the emergency-use authorization of ...

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...

Plans are being developed to require vaccination against COVID-19 for all would-be foreign travelers to America. It’s just sensible. First reported ea...

The difficulty of diagnosing early acute Lyme disease makes things doubly frustrating for Pennsylvanians, who live in a state that has consistently ra...

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...

HARRISBURG — As Pennsylvania hits the milestone that more than 80% of adults have received a dose of the COVID vaccine, the state announced two new in...

HARRISBURG — About 25,000 employees of Pennsylvania’s prisons and state health care and congregate care facilities have about a month to get vaccinate...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is coming in for criticism over its most recent change of guidance on masks in the fight against COVID-...

Potter County’s rate of positivity for COVID-19 is rising again, and only about 26% of the county’s population are fully vaccinated. All four local co...