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    UPMC offers free skin cancer screenings
    Local News, News
    UPMC offers free skin cancer screenings
    Apr 30, 2025
    WILLIAMSPORT — In recognition of National Skin Cancer and Melanoma Awareness Month, UPMC is offering free skin cancer screenings in May. These screeni...
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    Data shows Medicare top insurance payer in 3rd quarter
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    Data shows Medicare top insurance payer in 3rd quarter
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Apr 25, 2025
    During the current Trump Administration, changes have been proposed or already put in place for many forms of health insurance, including Medicare, Me...
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    Grant funding for Penn Highlands hospitals
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    Grant funding for Penn Highlands hospitals
    Apr 24, 2025
    DuBOIS — Two Penn Highlands Healthcare hospitals received grants from the A.J. and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust. Penn Highlands Elk With the $1...
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    BRMC, OGH invite community members to become volunteers
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    BRMC, OGH invite community members to become volunteers
    Apr 24, 2025
    In honor of National Volunteer Appreciation Week, Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC) and Olean General Hospital (OGH), Kaleida Health facilities,...
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    With loved ones in crisis, families struggle to get help in Pa.’s mental health system
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    With loved ones in crisis, families struggle to get help in Pa.’s mental health system
    IVEY DeJESUS pennlive.com 
    Apr 23, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Amy Graf has spent the better part of the last 12 years watching her son battle debilitating mental illness. Five years ago, he dec...
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    Kidney recipient (almost) free to live a normal life
    Lifestyles
    Kidney recipient (almost) free to live a normal life
    Apr 23, 2025
    DuBOIS — Can you fill your cup with ice at a self-serve drink dispenser? Lisa Lane has to drink her beverage without the commercial ice. Can you take ...
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    Expiring health insurance tax credits loom large in Pennsylvania
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    Expiring health insurance tax credits loom large in Pennsylvania
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Apr 23, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Expanded tax credits that make health insurance cheaper for 24.3 million Americans face expiration at the end of 2025, leaving many in th...
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    Pitt gets $10 million to expand artificial intelligence in medicine
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    Pitt gets $10 million to expand artificial intelligence in medicine
    KRIS B. MAMULA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Apr 18, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A Virginia company is expanding its partnership with the University of Pittsburgh with a $10 million investment designed to improve...
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    Safely dispose of medications on National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
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    Safely dispose of medications on National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
    Apr 17, 2025
    YORK — To fight prescription drug misuse, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day creates convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwi...
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    Erie County has declared a measles outbreak
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Erie County has declared a measles outbreak
    Apr 16, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS)—A western Pennsylvania county has officially declared it has a measles outbreak. The Erie County Health Department (ECDH) said in a p...
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    Are you an organ donor?
    Lifestyles
    Are you an organ donor?
    Apr 16, 2025
    DuBOIS — Does your driver’s license include the little red heart with the words “Organ Donor” at the bottom? If not, why wait? April is National Donat...
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    Penn Highlands to host ‘Pancakes and Purses’
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    Penn Highlands to host ‘Pancakes and Purses’
    Apr 11, 2025
    DuBOIS — Mark your calendar to attend “Let’s Talk Women’s Health: Pancakes and Purses” from 9 to 11 a.m. May 3 in Founders’ Café and Grill at Penn Hig...
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    BRMC earns accreditation for mammography
    Business, Local News, News
    BRMC earns accreditation for mammography
    Apr 11, 2025
    Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC), a Kaleida Health facility, has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography as the result o...
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    Washington Post’s negligent fear-mongering about NIH
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Washington Post’s negligent fear-mongering about NIH
    DR. GEORGE F. TIDMARSH RealClearPolitics 
    Apr 10, 2025
    Is the Washington Post journalistically challenged when it comes to science? You decide. An April 6 article in the WaPo , one of the most recent as th...
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    Bill planned to ban gender transitions for minors
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Bill planned to ban gender transitions for minors
    CHRISTEN SMITH The Center Square 
    Apr 10, 2025
    HARRISBURG — The debate over whether children should undergo gender transition treatments has grown in fervor since Election Day, though a pending bil...
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    Bill would help donate unused prescriptions to those in need
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Bill would help donate unused prescriptions to those in need
    Apr 10, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Rep. Kathy L. Rapp, R-Warren, chair of the House Health Committee, announced the committee has unanimously approved a bill that would exp...
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    If you smoked, do you need a lung screening?
    Lifestyles
    If you smoked, do you need a lung screening?
    Apr 09, 2025
    DuBOIS — Women are frequently advised to schedule their annual mammograms and men a blood test for PSA to screen for prostate cancer. The list of adul...
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    The skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution
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    The skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution
    SUSAN HAIGH and MARC LEVY Associated Press 
    Apr 07, 2025
    States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out fro...
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    $4.3B to cover Medicaid patients twice
    Opinion, Сolumns
    $4.3B to cover Medicaid patients twice
    Apr 07, 2025
    States and the federal government spent $4.3 billion on Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of patients who were already insured in other states, accor...
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    BRMC cuts ribbon on new X-ray room
    Business, Local News, News
    BRMC cuts ribbon on new X-ray room
    Apr 04, 2025
    Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC), a Kaleida Health facility, celebrated the re-opening of the newly upgraded X-ray room 1, featuring state-of-t...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
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    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
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