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ALBANY (AP) — New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio,...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York health officials confirmed Thursday that a case of polio was recently recorded in Rockland County, the first time the highly i...

Producing field crops in Southwest New York is an important sector of our agriculture industry, according to Katelyn Walley-Stoll, team leader and Far...

Technological achievements throughout human history have been met with skepticism and condemnation. While most people ultimately laud such achievement...

STATE COLLEGE — A webinar on the “Mystery Songbird Disease: Knowns, Unknowns and Actions to Take” will be presented by Penn State Extension from 7 to ...

While we never received any reports in the Southern Tier of sick or dead song birds afflicted with an unknown disease in nearby Pennsylvania and other...

As New York state has seen what she calls an overwhelming increase in ticks, Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ...

So are we having a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. or not? University of Minnesota’s Michael Osterholm has forecast a COVID “Category...

If you are a New York resident and are 16 or older, you can now be vaccinated against COVID-19. This is a huge step in working toward reaching herd im...

There are a hundred things I could tell you about my late mother that are more important than the disease that caught her in its grip the last few yea...

ALBANY (TNS) — Despite a federal report ranking New York third in the nation for the number of Lyme disease diagnoses, not a penny has been set aside ...

As coronavirus vaccination efforts — both locally, at state levels and nationally — have stalled, even residents of the Twin Tiers considered prioriti...

Cornell Cooperative Extension will offer online training to learn about problem weeds, diseases and insects found in field crops in the Southwest New ...

On Monday, the first health care workers rolled up their sleeves and accepted a shot in the arm of the Pfizer/ BioNTech cocktail that offers hope agai...

The prospect of a vaccine for COVID-19 reaching the Twin Tiers area is closer and closer. A U.S. government advisory panel endorsed widespread use of ...

OLEAN — Dr. Jeremy Barnett admits that he cries when his patients are taken off ventilators and tell him they’re hungry or thirsty because it is then ...

Scientists and researchers the world over have harnessed the energy of their minds and hearts to craft a weapon against the persistent and deadly COVI...

BUFFALO — Anyone who has undergone a nasal swab or saliva test for COVID-19 knows that the virus is most easily detected in the nose and mouth. That’s...