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    Call for new investments in maternal health, rural healthcare workforce
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    Call for new investments in maternal health, rural healthcare workforce
    May 14, 2025
    UNIONTOWN — Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Dr. Val Arkoosh recently toured the newly opened WVU Medicine Children’s Birthing Center at U...
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    Providers want to hear from moms in recovery
    Local News, News
    Providers want to hear from moms in recovery
    May 07, 2025
    Moms and healthcare providers are coming together to discuss strategies to improve local quality of care for mothers in recovery and their newborns. T...
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    DUBOIS: Penn Highlands to offer free screenings
    Local News, News
    DUBOIS: Penn Highlands to offer free screenings
    May 03, 2025
    DuBOIS — Penn Highlands Breast Care Services and Penn Highlands Life’s Journey OB/GYN will conduct a free breast and cervical screening to help promot...
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    Causer, Dush announce funding for Keating Township water project
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    Causer, Dush announce funding for Keating Township water project
    Apr 23, 2025
    HARRISBURG — The newly formed Keating Township Municipal Authority has been awarded a $2 million low-interest loan to improve drinking water in the re...
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    Safely dispose of medications on National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
    Local News, News
    Safely dispose of medications on National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
    Apr 17, 2025
    YORK — To fight prescription drug misuse, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day creates convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwi...
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    Erie County has declared a measles outbreak
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    Erie County has declared a measles outbreak
    Apr 16, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS)—A western Pennsylvania county has officially declared it has a measles outbreak. The Erie County Health Department (ECDH) said in a p...
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    ‘Nobody knew exactly what to do’: 5 years on, what scientific lessons were learned during COVID?
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    ‘Nobody knew exactly what to do’: 5 years on, what scientific lessons were learned during COVID?
    HANNA WEBSTER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Mar 23, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS)— The pandemic stretched us — our communication, our science, our distribution networks, even what it means to be a good citizen amid ...
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    Measles cases are still rising in Texas. Here’s what you should know about the contagious virus
    Nation & World, News
    Measles cases are still rising in Texas. Here’s what you should know about the contagious virus
    DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer 
    Mar 11, 2025
    Measles outbreaks in West Texas and New Mexico are now up to more than 250 cases, and two unvaccinated people have died from measles-related causes. M...
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    Proposed Pa. budget would put portion of $5 million in maternal health funding toward postpartum depression screening
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Proposed Pa. budget would put portion of $5 million in maternal health funding toward postpartum depression screening
    HANNA WEBSTER Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Mar 07, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Jessica Tucker, a 38-year-old mother living in Brookline, started feeling depressed when she was 20 weeks pregnant. Tucker spoke to...
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    Measles outbreak was entirely avoidable
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Measles outbreak was entirely avoidable
    LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion/TNS 
    Feb 28, 2025
    A measles outbreak inWest TexasandNew Mexicohas killed a child and sickened more than 130 people, and public health experts fear it’s only the beginni...
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    Can you get bird flu and not know it? These people did
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    Can you get bird flu and not know it? These people did
    Feb 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS)—The official number of people that have contracted bird flu in the past year, 68 to be exact, has been relatively small. A new study ...
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    ‘Cooking for Crowds’ workshop to focus on safe food handling
    Local News, News
    ‘Cooking for Crowds’ workshop to focus on safe food handling
    Feb 12, 2025
    COUDERSPORT — Those who volunteer to prepare large quantities of food for the public may want to attend a Penn State Extension workshop titled “Cookin...
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    Flu cases on ‘seasonal uptick’ in region
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    Flu cases on ‘seasonal uptick’ in region
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 07, 2025
    Got the sniffles? Is it the common cold, or the beginning of something worse that might knock you out of commission for a while? Between Sept. 29 and ...
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    Bradford Hospital Foundation bestows SARAH Award
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    Bradford Hospital Foundation bestows SARAH Award
    Feb 03, 2025
    The Bradford Hospital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bradford Regional Medical Center, hosted its first local in-person event since the COVID pa...
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    How Trump’s health care disruption could pay off
    Opinion, Сolumns
    How Trump’s health care disruption could pay off
    ERIC REINHART Los Angeles Times 
    Jan 31, 2025
    CHICAGO (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reflects anger and frustration at the wanton greed underlying America’s h...
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    Penn State Extension seeks input from septic system owners or users
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Penn State Extension seeks input from septic system owners or users
    Jan 30, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension is surveying septic system owners or users to learn more about septic system operation and maintenance practice...
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    Low-interest loans to benefit McKean Co. water projects
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    Low-interest loans to benefit McKean Co. water projects
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 22, 2025
    More than $19 million in low-interest Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST) loans will benefit two major water infrastructure pr...
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    Free testing for limited private wells, springs, cisterns in McKean County
    Local News, News
    Free testing for limited private wells, springs, cisterns in McKean County
    Jan 21, 2025
    More than 8,600 households in McKean County get their drinking water from a private source. These residents are responsible for testing and treating t...
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    New year, new laws hit Pennsylvania
    Local News, News, PA State News
    New year, new laws hit Pennsylvania
    HENRY SAVAGE The Philadelphia Inquirer 
    Jan 09, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS) As Pennsylvania residents began 2025, several new laws took effect, including expanded access to health care and pay raises for top...
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    Pa. doctors report the dreaded norovirus stomach bug is going around
    Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
    Pa. doctors report the dreaded norovirus stomach bug is going around
    IVEY DeJESUS pennlive.com 
    Jan 03, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS)—If you got together with friends or family this holiday season, you probably heard about someone who was, as the saying goes, as sick...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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