pharmacology

A new menu will be served up at the former La Mixteca restaurant in downtown Bradford: medical marijuana. Dubois Wellness Center LLC is slated to open...

Christine Lotyczewski is a public health nurse with Ontario County and, as a medical professional, became particularly intrigued when Excellus BlueCro...

As summer approaches, health officials are warning that Lyme disease could be particularly prevalent in the Northeast. Research shows the number of mi...

“Although I agree there are definitely places that funding should be cut, to reduce access to addiction services in the midst of an epidemic would be ...

SOME TIPS: Summer is a time of fun in the sun, but it’s also a time of bug bites. StatePoint says that insects can trigger allergic reactions in some ...

A Bradford woman currently in state prison’s Quehanna Boot Camp is being charged for her part in the fatal overdose of a Driftwood man last October in...

COUDERSPORT — On April 11, a public forum was held at the Galeton School on the drug epidemic in Pennsylvania, Potter County District Attorney Distric...

ST. MARYS — A Brockport man who allegedly crashed his car into the doors of Penn Highlands Elk hospital in St. Marys is facing charges of intending to...

Pennsylvania’s physician general, Dr. Rachel Levine, discussed the opioid crisis during her keynote address for the American Academy of Pain Medicine’...

WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution offered by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and a bipartisan group of four other senators aimed at rai...

OLEAN, N.Y. —The first reported heroin overdose death of 2017 in Cattaraugus County was reported earlier this month in Portville. Dr. Kevin Watkins, c...

It’s nabbed headlines on a regular basis throughout the year, taking lives and ruining lives. The Era’s newsmaker of the year for 2016 is the opioid c...

What do you do with unused medication? Put it in the medicine cabinet and forget about it? With the growing national problem with prescription drug mi...

EMPORIUM — A new president of the Cameron County School Board was chosen during Thursday’s regular meeting. Daryl Richardson was voted in unanimously ...

Everyone gets them. Whether it’s a dull ache, pounding pressure or throbbing that just won’t go away, headache pain can seriously impact our lives. If...

Until recently, it was routine for many patients complaining of pain to get sent home from the doctor’s office with a prescription for weeks’ worth of...

A simple smell evokes so much. Your husband’s cologne. Freshly baked cookies. Newly mowed grass under the warm summer sun. Smells make us remember, ma...

We have all experienced the discomfort of a too-close conversation with a person whose breath reeks of their stinky lunch—or many lunches from days go...

Men battling prostate cancer often face bone loss as a result of both the cancer and some of the treatments. As your bones lose density, you can be at...

Most people know about asthma, and the coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath that come with it. But in recent years, a new form of the condition ...