immunology

BELMONT — The Allegany County Department of Health is offering immunization and flu shot shot clinics at several sites during the next few weeks. Depa...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Health Department will begin offering updated COVID-19 vaccines at clinics across the county beginning later this month...

The New York State Department of Health urges New Yorkers to take precautions to prevent rabies infections in people and pets. Rabies is a deadly dise...

Across New York, many celebrated Pride Month this June, honoring LGBTQ+ people and our historic struggle for equality and equity. But for the majority...

ELLICOTTVILLE — More than 200 guests attended a 100th anniversary luncheon for the Cattaraugus County Health Department on Thursday. New York State He...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York is discontinuing its controversial COVID-19 vaccination requirement for workers at hospitals, nursing homes and other health...

ALBANY (TNS) — The national COVID-19 public health emergency lapsed Thursday, marking a symbolic end to the health crisis that upended society and kil...

SUNY Jamestown Community College will no longer require COVID-19 vaccinations for students, in accordance with the recent announcement from the State ...

We learned recently that, once again, Novak Djokovic, the world’s greatest tennis player, will be barred from competing in the U.S. because he isn’t v...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York court workers must be rehired if they were fired over a Covid vaccine mandate, according to the state’s Public Employment Re...

OLEAN — Paula Snyder describes herself as a very optimistic person. She deals with everything with “a level of humor” whenever possible. As the execut...

To mark Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, the New York State Department of Health reminds folks to schedule a screening appointment or get the human pa...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Three years after the United States logged its first case of COVID-19, the pandemic has slipped off the front pages and seemingly o...

CHICAGO (TNS) — In a Jan. 2 “Monday Night Football” game, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field. An imm...

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...

A new COVID-19 variant called XBB.1.5 is driving a new wave of infections. But susceptibility to it is not, as some contend, being fueled by vaccines....

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The new highly contagious XBB.1.5 COVID variant has become the most predominant strain of the virus circulating in New York state, th...

Whose pandemic strategy really saved lives? Which states or countries lost the most people to the virus? Or to the unintended consequences of mitigati...