pharmacology

Pharmacies are certainly a life-sustaining business, and local pharmacists are doing what they can to minimize exposure risk for their patients. Mike ...

Some additional changes will be coming to Upper Allegheny Health System hospitals on Monday. In a media call Thursday, Dr. William Mills, senior vice ...

As the opioid epidemic continues to impact individuals, families and the community, Bradford Regional Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Services Depa...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said three provisions he authored are being proposed for implementation in regulations for the Centers for M...

RIDGWAY — Ridgway-based state police announced that drug charges are pending against a Byrnedale man after an overdose in Jay Township. According to p...

In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency, and it announced a five-point strategy to battle the opi...

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act (S.2740), introduced by U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Jo...

SMETHPORT — Larry Shroyer, 48, will serve 53 to 106 months in state prison for delivering a mix of butyryl fentanyl and heroin in 2015 to 25-year-old ...

Three University of Pittsburgh at Bradford students accepted into the Vira I. Heinz Scholarship for Women in Global Leadership program for the 2019 co...

Alex Tingley of Bradford has been fighting acute lymphocytic leukemia for nearly a year. Doctors have told the family that Alex’s B Cell acute lymphoc...

Fentanyl has had a deadly impact on Pennsylvania, and state Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale on Wednesday said more needs to be done to prevent ov...

The fight to combat the opioid epidemic in the region has seen significant progress, but local officials caution the war on drugs is far from over. No...

Doctors at Geisinger Medical Center said Monday the infection that struck eight babies is a common one found in water and liquids. The infection, call...

Aug. 31 has been designated as “Overdose Awareness Day” for 2019. The day is to remember those who have lost their lives and their families who are le...

SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany man will serve 14 to 36 months in state prison for drug charges in two cases: one related a methamphetamine lab and the ot...

SMETHPORT — Smethport acupuncturist Shaune D. Ralph, DAIH, is now one of only five members of her profession to earn the prestigious degree, Doctorate...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., ranking member of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, held the final hearing in a three-part series o...

What do Sigmund Freud, Prince, Janis Joplin and Pennsylvania-bred rapper Mac Miller all have in common? They all died from an opioid overdose. Images ...

PRICES: The cost of prescription drugs can be a big hit to the budget. We found an article in Consumer Report about a 2017 survey the agency conducted...

WEST PITTSTON — Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Tuesday announced that the Office of Attorney General’s Drug Take Back Program recently surpassed 100...