oncology

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Dick Vitale has twice defeated cancer. And at age 84, the beloved ESPN college basketball analyst fully intends to do it again. Vi...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There were good reasons to avoid products with the artificial sweetener Aspartame even before the World Health Organization classifie...

One former patient stopped in Dr. Nate Graham’s office to shake his hand and tell him how much she appreciated him, while another smiled and greeted t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. women’s national soccer team will be honored with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at The ESPYS on July 12. Liam Hendriks...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Olean General Hospital and its parent organization will pay almost $3 million to federal investigators for giving benefits to patients w...

June 4 was National Cancer Survivors Day, a celebration of life dedicated to the millions of cancer survivors, their support persons and care teams to...

While Cameron Johnson was starring in the WPIAL at Our Lady of Sacred Heart, Pitt basketball coach Jamie Dixon wanted to make an in-home recruiting vi...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — This Easter, Americans will devour more than 1 billion Peeps — those radiant marshmallow chicks whose appearance on store sh...

Talk about a kid who had a great story when his teachers asked him what he did over Super Bowl weekend. What unfolded for 12-year-old Colt Matz, a sev...

Patients and their doctors count on cancer screening tests to save lives, and yet a number of large, controlled studies are showing disappointing resu...

It is a tough situation that can also be uncomfortable—a colleague is diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness, and you want to do something, bu...

It’s never too late to begin building a strong foundation to protect your health now and in the future. Each section below provides suggestions of wha...

Fran De Lancey, beloved Era correspondent, school teacher, gentleman and dear friend to so many, passed away on Wednesday at his son’s house in Bethel...

There is an old joke that asks, How do you get to Carnegie Hall? The answer, of course: practice, practice, practice. While Dr. Gopala Ramineni’s advi...

SMETHPORT — McKean County commissioners have proclaimed October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the county. During the commissioners’ meeting Tues...

More women than ever before are surviving breast cancer. The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) reports that breast cancer death rates have decl...

Over approximately the past 15 months we have acquired a new vocabulary. We have become accustomed to knowing the meaning of “shelter-in-place,” “soci...

When the McKean County Relay for Life kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday in Veterans Square it will represent the first time the event has been held in dow...

COUDERSPORT — Last week, UPMC Cole cancer center staff and leaders celebrated becoming part of the world-renowned UPMC Hillman Cancer Center network. ...

RUSSELL — Timothy J. O’Brien, M.D. recently welcomed local surgeon Nate Graham to Pine Grove Ambulatory Surgical Center, headquartered in Russell, War...