immunology

Your life is busy. Work, appointments, grocery shopping, cooking, driving your kids around – there are all sorts of excuses to put off getting an annu...

It is healthy for the bodies to take probiotics. They cleanse the body and the gut system. The “good bacteria” helps keep the gut healthy. Instead of ...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County Health Department staff worked hard during September to follow up on new state vaccination requirements in the county’s sch...

OLEAN — The 2018-19 influenza vaccine was on average, about 47% effective in preventing people from getting the flu, but varied widely in effectivenes...

OLEAN — It looks like most public schools in Cattaraugus County will be in significant compliance with new school immunization requirements that did a...

OLEAN — New York’s new state law eliminating the religious exemption to student immunizations could spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e for Cattaraugus County’s 20 pr...

Many of us can remember the time when research of any topic often involved hours perusing scholarly tomes and magazine articles in a local library or ...

The year is 1952, and hysteria is sweeping across the United States. What is everyone afraid of? Polio. That year, the disease, which targets children...

OLEAN — A Salamanca man who was severely injured late last month in his own home by a raccoon is serving as a reminder that post-exposure rabies vacci...

Health insurance plans provide a number of preventive services that many employees don’t know are available, and some simply don’t use. What if people...

OLEAN — While the influenza season has been mild so far statewide and in Cattaraugus County, the number of cases has begun to increase. Statewide last...

Cattaraugus County schools’ immunization rates are generally high — with the exception of seven Amish schools where there is a 100 percent religious e...

(TNS) ORCHARD PARK — A Buffalo-area woman is headed to court after her daughters were kicked out of school because their vaccinations were not up to d...

OLEAN — Reports of influenza are on the increase across Cattaraugus County and the rest of New York state. Lynn Moore, county Health Department direct...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County’s first confirmed cases of influenza of the 2018-19 flu season have been recorded in Olean. The Cattaraugus County Health D...

It’s right around the corner. That’s right — flu season. And like clockwork, the familiar muscle aches, coughs, chills, headaches, runny noses, sneeze...

Amidst reports of canine distemper virus in New York City’s Central Park, the state Department of Agriculture and Markets issued a notice reminding pe...

OLEAN —As summer temperatures rise, more bats find their way from hot attics into cooler homes. So health officials are advising those who see one of ...