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The day after I turned 70, I got an email urging me to buy burial insurance. “Now more than ever, it’s time to make sure your family is protected,” it...

DUBOIS – Each year in the United States, nearly 11,500 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed in women, and in Pennsylvania approximately 1 out of...

(TNS) — The bone marrow registry, and how it leads to people saving lives of strangers, can boost faith in the goodness of humanity. “It’s kind of fas...

NEW YORK (AP) — According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a...

Bradford Regional Medical Center (BRMC), a member campus of Upper Allegheny Health System (UAHS), introduced vascular surgeon Dr. Thomas Langan at its...

DUBOIS — Your nerves are an amazing network within your body. Nerves deliver sensory information and movement instructions from your body to your brai...

Julie Barrett’s phone rang on Friday, Dec. 15, but it seemed there was no one on the other end of the line. Julie figured her husband, Jason, hunting ...

Aaron Rodgers defied conventional medicine by returning to practice just 77 days after surgery for a torn Achilles tendon. How he did it should be the...

DUBOIS — Approximately 20% of Americans seek medical attention every year for back or neck pain, but fortunately, the vast majority can find relief wi...

Daniel Malone’s Aug. 3 letter to the editor in the Olean Times Herald, in which he detailed the care he received at Olean General Hospital, inspired m...

Two new studies published simultaneously in the journal Nature document a leap forward in the race to teach computers to translate brain signals into ...

PITTSBURGH — Patients with cancer who live in rural Pennsylvania counties appear to know that they may have better outcomes if they receive their canc...

EMPORIUM — How did surgeons, scientists, veterinarians, medical examiners, and countless others, who delve deep into human and animal bodies, figure o...

One former patient stopped in Dr. Nate Graham’s office to shake his hand and tell him how much she appreciated him, while another smiled and greeted t...

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

Deion Sanders might lose his left foot as a result of circulation issues that forced him to have two toes amputated in 2021. Sanders allowed camera cr...

Tiger Woods had fusion surgery on his right ankle Wednesday morning to alleviate arthritis from a broken bone, putting in doubt whether he plays any m...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — More than a year after federal prosecutors accused UPMC and a star surgeon of engaging in a massive fraud scheme that put profits b...

DUBOIS — Joint replacement is one of the most commonly performed elective surgical procedures in the United States. For the past two years, the highly...

Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at the Yale School of Medicine, says he worries about two kinds of long COVID. There’s the obvious version where peopl...