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Warmath joins staff at CARE
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Feb 02, 2018
Lauren Warmath, PT, DPT, joined the CARE for Children staff as a full-time physical therapist in December 2017. Warmath will provide physical therapy ...
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UPB plans health careers job fair
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Feb 01, 2018
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will hold a Health Careers Job Fair Feb. 6 on campus. Representatives of 16 organizations will be available f...
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Flu activity increases across the region
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ALEX DAVIS Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com 
Jan 24, 2018
The flu is raging across Pennsylvania ––and the four-county region hasn’t been spared, health officials are reporting. Nate Wardle of the Pennsylvania...
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Winter memories by the fireside
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors, ...
WADE ROBERTSON Special to the Era 
Jan 20, 2018
The wood stove was hot, a bright bed of coals glowing yellow, orange and red while lazy flames flickered upward. The heat was so welcome; now the summ...
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Shapiro visits Emporium
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AMANDA JONES Era Correspondent amandajonesera@yahoo.com 
Jan 17, 2018
EMPORIUM — During a regional visit Tuesday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro met with law enforcement officials in Emporium to discuss effor...
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Gen. Thomas L. Kane Birthday celebration set for Jan. 26
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RUTH BOGDAN Era Reporter r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jan 16, 2018
Gen. Thomas L. Kane hasn’t been around to celebrate a birthday in 135 years. But for the past several years, residents of his namesake borough of Kane...
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BRMC lauded for maternity care
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Jan 13, 2018
In an effort to help prospective parents find hospitals that deliver quality, affordable maternity care, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield announced tha...
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Winter skin care 101
Health, Mind and Body, Mind Body, ...
Jessica Perkins 
Jan 12, 2018
Dry, flaky skin can be itchy and irritating. Even individuals who tend toward oily skin on their face often battle dry skin on their body in the winte...
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New opiate treatment center in Limestone is booming
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KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera 
Jan 11, 2018
LIMESTONE, N.Y. — For the past several months, a number of New York state and Pennsylvania residents in need of help with opiate addictions have visit...
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Bradford doctor supports refugees in Rohingya crisis
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RUTH BOGDAN Era Reporter r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jan 11, 2018
Bradford physician Dr. M. Javed Akhtar found himself distraught for a week after returning from a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. In the past sev...
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Benefit slated to help ‘Aleksa fight’
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KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera.com 
Jan 10, 2018
After Aleksa Carey was admitted to the hospital for treatment of cancer and couldn’t return home for almost a month, she told her mother she really "m...
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Flu cases up at BRMC
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ALEX DAVIS Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com 
Jan 10, 2018
Reported flu cases are up across the region –– so much so that the Bradford Regional Medical Center has been restricted to visitors 17 years old and o...
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