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Community Blood Bank of Northwestern PA and Western NY will host a blood drive noon to 5 p.m. Monday at St Bernard Church, 95 E. Corydon St. Every day...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — February is Rare Disease Awareness month. The upcoming week has been declared Rare Disease Awareness week, with Rare Disease Day bei...

When adults have their routine eye exams, they commonly have a test for glaucoma. Glaucoma is a group of diseases that damage the eye’s optic nerve an...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—The official number of people that have contracted bird flu in the past year, 68 to be exact, has been relatively small. A new study ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Wednesday an additional chronic wasting disease-positive deer has been detected in the northeastern part of...

HARRISBURG —Treating traumatic brain injury, or TBI, can be a long and costly road. Experts in the field say that leaving these injuries untreated or ...

SMETHPORT — A blood drive will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Feb. 20 at Smethport Fire Department, 109 S. Nelson St. Community Blood Bank of Northwestern P...

DuBOIS — It’s winter and one thing that’s almost as certain as cold weather is that small children will develop ear infections. otitis media, the medi...

Got the sniffles? Is it the common cold, or the beginning of something worse that might knock you out of commission for a while? Between Sept. 29 and ...

DuBOIS — Having a heart attack, congestive heart failure or heart surgery can be scary. The recuperation process leaves some people weak and anxious. ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and the state Department of Agriculture announced Friday two deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in...

Three blood drives for the American Red Cross have been set for February around the region. The Grace Bible Church in Kane will hold a drive from 12:3...

DuBOIS — Snow can look really fluffy and pretty when you are watching it fall from indoors, but when you are outside shoveling it, as well as playing,...

In partnership with the North Central Drug Task Force, Elk County District Attorney Beau Grove (right) and Cameron County District Attorney Paul Maliz...

FILLMORE, N.Y. — Do you want to build a snowman? How about an 8-foot realistic snow sculpture of Spider-Man? The answer was an enthusiastic yes from 1...

A blood drive will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Monday at St. Bernard Church, 95 E. Corydon St. January marks National Blood Donor Month, a time to rec...

DuBOIS — The use of telemedicine dates back to the late 1950s and 1960s when NASA developed telemedicine technology to monitor the health of astronaut...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) announced the creation of a new licensure program to obtain a telehealth-...

Kaleida Health officials have denied a rumor that Bradford Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department would be the next service shuttered at the f...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) As Pennsylvania residents began 2025, several new laws took effect, including expanded access to health care and pay raises for top...