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ALBANY (TNS) — A new, highly contagious COVID-19 strain is circulating in New York, resulting in a rise in hospitalizations from a virus that has cont...

FORT WORTH, Texas — I’m not alone when I confess that the COVID era wreaked havoc on my kids’ annual pediatrician visits. In the early months of the p...

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect. Weeks earlier, the ...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Board of Elections will offer extended hours during the two weeks prior to Nov. 2 General Election, Election Co...

COVID! COVID! COVID! Vaccination! Vaccination! Vaccination! In 2020 and 2021 those have been words used a crazy amount of times and for good reason. B...

As the world works to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, the workplace has become focused on wellness and accommodation in ways that were too often ab...

According to a joint statement released by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine regarding the myst...

As if we don’t have enough diseases to worry about ... but another tick-borne illness is on the rise in Upstate New York. Health officials in the Lowe...

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 ...

Figuring out how to combine science with fairness in COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a tricky puzzle. Science can help predict how to distribute limi...

As 2020 unfolded, the world learned just how quickly the novel coronavirus COVID-19 could spread. The World Health Organization noted that, by Septemb...

LITTLE VALLEY — After COVID-19-related delays, village elections are set for next month. Cattaraugus County Board of Elections Commissioners Kevin Bur...

Governor Andrew Cuomo today urged New Yorkers statewide to take precautions as a significant portion of the state is expected to experience potentiall...

ALBANY (TNS) — If there was anything reassuring about the ghastly sickness that’s ravaging families, destroying our economy and causing so much suffer...

JOHNSON CITY (TNS ) — The state Health Department is investigating more cases of a coronaviru s complication that has killed three children in New Yor...

Comparisons between the current coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 flu that similarly swept the world are inevitable, and there are some striking paral...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's daily toll of coronavirus deaths hit its lowest point in more than two weeks, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Saturday that th...

Recently we have seen commentary suggesting that COVID-19 is no big deal and that we should not worry. This sends a message that encourages complacenc...