medicine

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982...

ERIE — Feb. 12 to 16 is National Salute to Veteran Patients Week at VA Hospitals across the country and this year’s theme at the Erie VA Medical Cente...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget may contain some laudable goals for rural Pennsylvania, but area legislators were put off by what they saw as ...

The Lutheran Home at Kane, recently approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to be a Certified Nurse Aide Training Program location, annou...

DuBOIS — February is American Heart Month — four weeks dedicated to raising awareness about cardiovascular disease. According to a recent Harris Poll,...

Dr. Nancy McCabe’s newest novel revisits a time that was strange for everyone and perhaps uniquely strange for higher education — the COVID-19 pandemi...

UNIVERSITY PARK — An estimated 1,600 people in the U.S. contract a serious infection from Listeria bacteria in food each year, and of those individual...

(AP) — A study from Michigan State University Extension found that just five minutes of outdoor activity in winter significantly improves mental healt...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Biden administration on Thursday began the first-ever negotiations over the price of 10 drugs in an effort to lower Medicare co...

Patrick Mahomes is chasing Tom Brady. Brock Purdy is playing in the shadow of Joe Montana. Winning the Super Bowl would be another major step for eith...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Former NFL offensive lineman T.J. Lang said no one discussed mental health 15 years ago at the start of his career. “When you...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, when an out-of-whack immune system attacks their own bodies — and new...

DUBOIS — For many people, eating gluten can cause bloating, diarrhea, constipation, stomachaches and other symptoms. Some people have a gluten intoler...

RIDGWAY — Dickinson Center, Inc., an affiliate of Journey Health System, has appointed a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr. Mary A...

COUDERSPORT — UPMC has expanded stroke specialty care services at UPMC Cole by offering virtual consultation services with stroke specialists from UPM...

(TNS) — After five years of separation from its collection of 4.5 million items, the State Library of Pennsylvania is back in business — now all it ne...

For Portville native Audrey Payne, walking and hiking has always been an important part of her life. After suffering a severe back injury more than a ...

About a decade ago, retired Bradford Area High School teacher Sue Evans went to the doctor with a swollen ankle. She was given an ovarian cancer diagn...

There are very polarizing opinions about winter weather – you either love it or hate it. While ice and snow are beautiful and bring winter sports fun,...

NEW YORK (AP) — According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a...