pharmacology

Sherlock Holmes fans love a locked-door mystery, so it was inevitable that the accidental death of TV comic Bob Saget in a Florida hotel room would ge...

COVID-19’s omicron variant is highly transmissible. It weakened vaccines’ defense against infection, though the shots still confer strong protection a...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A state House committee on Monday approved a bill that would free doctors to prescribe off-label drugs to treat COVID-19 and allow ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A Pennsylvania surgeon accused of prescribing unproven drugs to treat COVID-19 to people referred to her through social media has b...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Researchers have not discovered the cause of the mystery bird disease that killed large numbers of songbirds inPennsylvaniaand nine...

An Olean, N.Y., man was convicted of drug charges Wednesday following a two-day trial in McKean County Court. Karl Ginnery, 37, was convicted of posse...

Scientists who’ve been reluctant to talk up any new COVID-19 treatment are suddenly using the expression “game changer” to describe the Pfizer antivir...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office has a but few more weeks to persuade as many local governments as possible to accept a s...

In 2014, Mehmet Oz, television’s “ Dr. Oz,” was flying high on the success of a syndicated daytime talk show and a burgeoning empire peddling a cavalc...

Crossroads’ Bradford office is opening at a new location. Crossroads offers a methadone program and a suboxone program of treatment. The program takes...

With COVID-19 cases surging in Europe and the possibility of a new late-year wave in the U.S., it is becoming clear that vaccination alone will not re...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., joined a Democratic colleague in introducing a measure to hold countries more responsible for fentanyl being...

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect. Weeks earlier, the ...

Too many lives have been lost. Families, communities and nations have been devastated. … Our marathon effort has been a success, but the last mile may...

Millions of Americans are now eligible to receive a Pfizer booster shot to help increase their protection against the worst effects of the coronavirus...

HERSHEY — Pennsylvania’s network of vaccine providers is ready to deliver booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine as soon as federal authorities sign...

The ongoing opioid addiction crisis began with excessive distribution of a new generation of effective opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin. But with...

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...

Pennsylvania ranks fifth among the states in overdose deaths and the overdose death rate, but legislative majorities in both houses have not detected ...

International Overdose Awareness Day is observed every Aug. 31. It is the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdoses. Alcohol & Drug Abuse Servi...