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When doctors discovered a brain stem tumor in little Westen Smith last year, his family found themselves facing a lot of debt stemming from hospital s...

COUDERSPORT — The Champion Orthopedics and Sports Medicine team at Cole Memorial will begin seeing patients on July 26 at their newest office located ...

It’s not uncommon for adults to have pre-surgery jitters prior to being wheeled in for a procedure. The level of apprehension experienced by children ...

For the past 26 years, Jim Carlson has sat in a chair three times a week, during four-hour sessions, receiving kidney dialysis. His friends and superv...

ST. MARYS — Wesley Schmidt was just 27 years old when he noticed his skin was turning yellow. What he didn't know is how his life would change as a re...

COUDERSPORT — Board-certified Otolaryngologist Joel D’Hue, MD, MBA, has joined the Cole Memorial Medical Group. He joins Kathleen Kerr, PA-C, in Cole ...

Toni Pearson of Mount Jewett and Sally Peterson of James City underwent liver transplant surgery Monday morning at UPMC Montefiore in Pittsburgh. Pete...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Like most children, the first thing Donna Bridenbaker’s grandnieces and grandnephews take out of their McDonald’s Happy Meal boxes isn’t...

Over the past four years, 8-year-old Rosie Thrasher-Miller has lived a normal childhood by attending school, playing with other children and, most imp...

The state Senate passed legislation Wednesday updating the Abortion Control Act to prevent abortions from being performed after 20 weeks and further p...

General surgeon Dr. Rabie Stephan, FACS, has joined the medical staff at Bradford Regional Medical Center and the Foothills Medical Group in Bradford....

Do you remember an instance when your toe poked through the worn fabric at the tip of your sock? An inguinal hernia is similar — except the “sock” in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor is having surgery to repair a sports hernia that contributed to a groin injury he sustaine...

D. Lee Hay, MD, obstetrics and gynecology, has joined the Women’s Health Services office of Bradford Regional Medical Center and the Foothills Medical...

(Editor’s note: The names in this story have been changed to protect the recipient’s identity.) Cindy Lou-Hoo has been facing down cancer for 25 years...

If you’re like most people, you’ve gone under the knife at least once in your life. According to a survey by the American College of Surgeons, the ave...

Peggy Tippin is quite matter-of-fact when she talks about the dayher heart stopped, or, as she puts it, “the day I died."And, it’s no tall tale she te...

She had survived the unthinkable, but Tameka Dickerson couldn’t see herself as a triumphant breast cancer survivor. At 28, the disease put her life in...