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ALBANY — While New Yorkers are still getting COVID-19 at about the same rate as they did a month ago, the severity of illness appears to be easing, ba...

In New York state, a case of a Brazilian variant of the coronavirus was detected for the first time Saturday, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office....

The American Cancer Society reports that colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women. One in 22 men and one in...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio got his COVID-19 shot on Thursday, then ripped the state’s embattled governor, Andrew Cuomo, accusi...

New York — Outdoor performing arts venues that can hold 2,500 people and up can reopen at 20% of their maximum capacity for concerts and other shows s...

ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University is offering two new graduate programs — a Master of Science in occupational therapy and a master’s degree...

It all started with garbage. In the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, suburb of Margate, 6-year-old Stephan Duvivier could not wait for garbage day to arrive ...

Clinics today and tomorrow are expected to vaccinate hundreds more against COVID-19 as case counts continue to rise. The Allegany County Department of...

ALBANY (TNS) — Hospitalizations in New York due to COVID-19 fell 33 on Tuesday to 4,624. Hospitalizations have been falling since climbing over 9,000 ...

PORTVILLE — Jenna Freer, a junior at Portville Central School and an Eldred, Pa. resident, is a delegate to The Congress of Future Medical Leaders, wh...

Several weeks ago, when national surveys suggested that a sizable portion of the U.S. population had no intention of getting vaccinated against COVID-...

WELLSVILLE -- The Allegany County Department of Health will host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Friday for eligible recipients. The clinic, to be he...

ALBANY (TNS) — Hospitalizations in New York due to COVID-19 rose 140 on Monday to 4,657 while another 51 people across the state died due to the virus...

The national crazy quilt of who can get a COVID vaccine that has been going on since December is ending in six weeks, thanks toPresident Biden, who di...

ALLEGANY — For the past 50 years, Marilyn and Anthony Marra have worked in the restaurant industry — as children alongside their parents and later tog...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York is still finding thousands of new COVID-19 cases per day. The state confirmed another 5,807 new cases on Sunday and reported a...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tom Reed and and a fellow House member from Alabama announced the introduction of the bipartisan Rural Hospital Support Act, le...

ALBANY (TNS) — Andrew Cuomo’s decision to write a book about the coronavirus pandemic — while it was still raging — always seemed like a terrible idea...