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As a physician who has worked in this community for 23 years, I am pleading for all who are able to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Right now, Cattaraugus Cou...

I have been reluctant to express my thoughts regarding our community’s access to healthcare because I never want my thoughts to be construed as not su...

H ARRISBURG (TNS) — Medical marijuana patients face a risk of arrest in Pennsylvania if they get behind the wheel of a vehicle. Jesse Roedts found tha...

A year and a half into the pandemic, the long-feared specter of rationed health care — that is, the delay or denial of medical treatment to some patie...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The vast majority of Pennsylvanians who have contracted the coronavirus in 2021 were not vaccinated, state officials say, releasi...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — UPMC continues to push monoclonal antibody treatment, giving it to 5,700 patients, including 2,300 during the past month amid a COV...

ROCKFORD, Tenn. — Remote Area Medical® (RAM), a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality dental, vision and medical care to...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Real-time studies among UPMC covid-19 patients show that monoclonal antibody treatments “significantly decrease” hospitalization an...

This is a time of year which I dread. It’s a happy time for one reason, my mother’s birthday. This year is the big 2-9 — well, the 62nd anniversary of...

During the past 18 months, a number of area families were unable to mourn loved ones who died from COVID-19 in the hospital or nursing home due to loc...

The difficulty of diagnosing early acute Lyme disease makes things doubly frustrating for Pennsylvanians, who live in a state that has consistently ra...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Overburdened health care systems from Texas to Florida are pleading with Western Pennsylvania hospitals to take on transfer patient...

ROCKFORD, Tenn. — Remote Area Medical- RAM® — a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality dental, vision and medical care to...

HOWARD — Friday, Representatives Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., and G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., introduced the bipartisan Helping Ensure Access to Local T...

Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital have eased visitor restrictions. Mask requirements remain in effect in all hospital...

The announcement of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was greeted this week with celebration and skepticism. The Food and Drug Administration ap...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Fifteen months into the coronavirus pandemic, the need for more nurses at Olean General Hospital continues. A shortage of nurses has bee...

McKean County saw an increase of 12 cases of COVID-19 over the holiday weekend, while Elk County reported one additional case and Potter County had se...

There were nine additional cases of COVID-19 in the local region, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday. McKean County had fi...

KANE — This month, UPMC Kane launched a new virtual telemedicine hospitalist program in partnership with the UPMC Center for Community Hospitalist Med...