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Bradford Sanitary Authority approved a request from Pine Acres Golf & RV Resort at Tuesday’s meeting to accept waste from campsites at the Marshburg f...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A bill placing regulations on pharmacy benefit managers is headed to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s desk. The bill, which began i...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Geisinger Medical Center will begin work next year on an $880 million expansion at its flagship Montour County hospital, which will...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Students in the Master’s Entry to Practice (MEP) nursing program at St. Bonaventure University had an experience this summer t...

Penn College has scheduled an information session for its upcoming LPN course beginning in September. The full-time, one-year Practical Nursing progra...

The Hazel Hurst Post Office, 309 Main St., will close its doors July 26 — hopefully temporarily. During the closure, residents will have to travel to ...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Talk about a perfect ending. Every 2024 graduate of St. Bonaventure University’s Physician Assistant Studies program passed th...

PITTSBURGH — About a year and a half ago, my pharmacist approached me as I was picking up prescriptions at Spartan Pharmacy to ask me if I knew what a...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Olean General Hospital (OGH) celebrated it’s first-ever cohort of nurses to graduate from the OGH nurse residency program. The year-long...

DuBOIS — Penn Highlands Elk Pinecrest Manor is offering a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification class that will begin Aug. 12. The classes a...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A bill that would update Pennsylvania’s background check process so that the commonwealth could finally implement interstate licens...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A new drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, providing an optio...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Stamp prices are going up. Again. After increasing rates in January, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) intends to do it again within a...

HARRISBURG — A panel of Pennsylvania Senate lawmakers approved a bill that gives more care authority to nurse practitioners. The proposal is just one ...

HARRISBURG — The state House OK’d a bill Friday that, if passed, will reign in pharmacy benefit managers, which impact prescription pricing and put pr...

HARRISBURG — Rep. Kathy L. Rapp, R-Warren, Republican chair of the House Health Committee, announced her bill to provide financial incentives to recru...

HARRISBURG — Insurance coverage for telemedicine will soon be the rule, not the exception, in Pennsylvania. A bill headed to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s desk ...

PUNXSUTAWNEY (TNS) — A tiny Jefferson County hospital will be the first clinical practice site for a new medical school that’s taking shape at Indiana...

Nearby Sheffield, in Warren County, came under the national spotlight earlier this week as the feature of a Washington Post article on aging populatio...

(TNS) — As tensions with China continue to rise, especially over trade and sensitive technological theft, it is critical that one facet of our nationa...