physiology

WASHINGTON — Tuesday, U.S. Senator Bob Casey’s, D-Pa., legislation, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which was passed in December 2022 is going into eff...

Advocates for reproductive rights have long warned that abortion bans would endanger women’s lives by deterring doctors from providing necessary care....

DUBOIS — High blood pressure, also called hypertension, typically develops slowly and often has no symptoms. That is why it is called the “silent kill...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Remote Area Medical (RAM) a nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality dental, vision and medical care to those in ne...

Tens of millions of people — from the Great Lakes to Long Island to as far south as the Chesapeake Bay — have been breathing unhealthy air from Canada...

Just when you thought you could throw out all the COVID masks, smoke rolls into town. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a...

It’s black outside, no moon with thick clouds blotting out any particle of light. We simply couldn’t move without blundering into something. So, by fl...

Dozens of Pennsylvania stream sections will be given increased protection following last week’s approval by the state Board of Fish and Boat Commissio...

The human body is remarkable. Though it was pitch black and I was barely awake, with one eye stubbornly refusing to open, my body knew the smartest th...

Allergies are the symptoms of our immune system’s defensive response to things we encounter that our body deems as “unsafe.” Most commonly, dust mites...

DUBOIS — The Maternal and Child Center at Penn Highlands DuBois now has a Substance Use Disorder Care Coordinator Program for Pregnant Women with Subs...

An average of 14 Pennsylvania residents die every day from overdose. Today, March 6, is Black Balloon Day, a day across the nation for families and lo...

RIDGWAY — The Big Maple Family Farm is hosting an Open House from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. The farm is a Pennsylvania Century family farm with four gene...

In escalating the fight against chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer, the Pennsylvania Game Commission could soon be using dogs to sniff out t...

This January, the American Red Cross and Pro Football Hall of Famer and blood donor Peyton Manning are asking people to score big for patients in need...

Whose pandemic strategy really saved lives? Which states or countries lost the most people to the virus? Or to the unintended consequences of mitigati...

Seasonal flu activity across the country is higher than it has been at this time for the past five seasons, according to the Pennsylvania Department o...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A subculture of foragers is scouring a growing host of social media groups, hashtags and phone apps to find and identify mushroom...

STRESS STOPPERS: You feel it creeping into life when there is no time for it — stress, anxiety, the blahs — whatever you call it, it is not a welcome ...

DUBOIS — Just when people’s fears about the many variants of the COVID-19 virus began to ease, a new virus — monkeypox — became news and may be causin...