pharmacology

It sometimes seems like the coronavirus pandemic devoured every other problem, leaving nothing in its wake. While it is hard to find a news story — wh...

ERIE — Erie VAMC received a shipment of an initial limited supply of the Moderna vaccine early Monday morning and plans to begin vaccinating residents...

The prospect of a vaccine for COVID-19 reaching the Twin Tiers area is closer and closer. A U.S. government advisory panel endorsed widespread use of ...

(TNS) — The first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine could reach Pittsburgh in weeks, pending the outcome of a Food and Drug Administration meeting next...

Scientists and researchers the world over have harnessed the energy of their minds and hearts to craft a weapon against the persistent and deadly COVI...

A token goodwill gesture by Purdue Pharma, the disgraced opioid manufacturer, has degenerated into a turf battle among lawyers. When Purdue Pharma, th...

DUBOIS — Penn Highlands DuBois and Penn Highlands Elk have received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelin...

If it were up to the top executives of state government — the governor and lieutenant governor — recreational marijuana would be legal. But it’s not. ...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office will hold a semiannual National Pill Take Back day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. D...

A Galeton man is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison for delivering fentanyl that caused serious injury, along with delivering other controll...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and U.S. Reps. Harley Rouda (D-Calif.) and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) are working...

Pennsylvania already was struggling to contain another public health emergency when COVID-19 arrived and sucked all of the air out of the room and all...

Two Bradford residents are in McKean County Jail for drug charges stemming from a traffic stop in April. Christopher S. Mangione, 45, and Candice M. W...

PITTSBURGH — UPMC, a world-renowned healthcare organization that includes UPMC Health Plan, the largest health insurer in western Pennsylvania, implem...

Q: Our son, age 8, has been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. His IQ is well above average but his actual performance in the classroom is pro...

Senior centers across Pennsylvania remain closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, as was confirmed by a representative from the Office of Human Services ...

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine discussed treatments for those who suffer from COVID-19 and the models used to determine a county’s mo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With families encouraged to stay at home due to the nationwide health crisis, the Drug Enforcement Administration is asking America...

A potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus causing the covid-19 outbreak has been created in a University of Pittsburgh lab. Researchers say th...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf announced Tuesday that the Department of Human Services has directed the state’s Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs)...