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DuBOIS — Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. In Pennsylvania, smoking is estimated to be responsible for more than...

AWARENESS: It’s January, which means a whole slew of awareness months are on the calendar, from the very serious to the rather silly. For example, It’...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—If you got together with friends or family this holiday season, you probably heard about someone who was, as the saying goes, as sick...

Avian influenza is suspected to have caused the deaths of about 200 snow geese found Monday in the greater Allentown area. Dead birds were recovered f...

Gage and Emy Brinsky know, when mom and dad aren’t there, it’s most likely because they’re busy helping others. Leah and Robbie Brinsky, parents to Ga...

WRONG: There’s something comical about opening up a package and finding something completely different than what you ordered. Editor and reporter Marc...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As more cases of bird flu are reported across species and locations, states across the country are taking precautionary measures ...

The sleep disorders center at Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC), a Kaleida Health facility, achieved a milestone in patient care by completing m...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) —About 23,000 kids and teens experience a cardiac arrest every year in theU.S.If that cardiac arrest takes place in a school with an ...

SHARON (TNS) — The emergency room at Sharon Regional Medical Center was already closed by Wednesday morning, even as the Pennsylvania Department of He...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — It’s that time of year when talk turns to holiday plans and that thing “that’s going around.” The official start of winter has not ...

McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reported the McKean County Detective Bureau received credible information that an extreme...

DuBOIS — The Level II Trauma Program at Penn Highlands DuBois received the Rural Health Program of the Year Award from the Pennsylvania Office of Rura...

DuBOIS — Lung cancer is the third most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S., and according to the American Lung As...

NAPS: The room gets warm, your mind starts to wander, the yawning starts. And your eyes blink shut, a little longer each time. Do you fight it, or jus...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Every morning and night, 7-year old Ford Bartle drinks a smoothie with nine pills crushed up inside. Those pills — newly approved b...

HARRISBURG — For Pennsylvanians, there are a few days left to complete the Maternal Health Strategic Plan Survey, part of the Shapiro administration’s...

A recent report by thePennsylvania Institutional Law Project(PILP) has highlighted major improvements to addiction treatments in jails and prisons acr...

OLEAN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College recently received approval to offer credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor training for ...

DuBOIS — Approximately 1 in 56 men and 1 in 60 women will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at some point in their lives, and Pennsylvania has sligh...