screening

Patients and their doctors count on cancer screening tests to save lives, and yet a number of large, controlled studies are showing disappointing resu...

It’s never too late to begin building a strong foundation to protect your health now and in the future. Each section below provides suggestions of wha...

NORRISTOWN — Special Olympics Pennsylvania’s (SOPA) 53rd Annual Summer Games, the organization’s largest statewide competition, will host nearly 750 c...

There is an old joke that asks, How do you get to Carnegie Hall? The answer, of course: practice, practice, practice. While Dr. Gopala Ramineni’s advi...

More women than ever before are surviving breast cancer. The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) reports that breast cancer death rates have decl...

ROCKFORD, Tenn. — Remote Area Medical® (RAM), a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality dental, vision and medical care to...

Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, will once again host a series of Senior Citizens Expos to provide area seniors and their family members and caregiv...

One of the best-kept secrets pertaining to health in the Bradford community is located twice a month in a downtown parking lot with services including...

The McKean County Community Foundation has awarded CARE for Children $2,500 to support community outreach initiatives. CARE will use the funds to unde...

The American Cancer Society reports that colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women. One in 22 men and one in...

Invisible Hand, a film from Mark Ruffalo, Joshua Boaz Pribanic and Melissa A. Troutman on the Rights of Nature movement has now won three best documen...

As of Wednesday, Adagio Health’s brand-new mobile health unit will provide health and wellness services to residents of Bradford. The Mobile Health Un...

SMETHPORT — Free no-contact vision screenings for children ages 6 months and up will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 16 at Hamlin Memorial Library...

If it were up to the top executives of state government — the governor and lieutenant governor — recreational marijuana would be legal. But it’s not. ...

PITTSBURGH — Experts say we are in for a busy wildfire and hurricane season this fall and the American Red Cross needs volunteers to help. The coronav...

Thanks to earlier detection, more Americans are surviving cancer. That’s why you shouldn’t put off having the screening tests you need. While scheduli...

Welcoming a baby into the world is a special lifetime moment. A full-term pregnancy is divided into three trimesters of baby development in the mother...

SMETHPORT — The Smethport Area School Board approved the district’s Health and Safety Plan Monday and also approved the administration’s recommendatio...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) reminds customers that any customer in need of an appointment for a skills test, ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that driver’s skills tests, including motorcycle skills tests, have resumed at re...