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CHICAGO (TNS) — Pfizer’s and Moderna’s bivalent boosters, which are now available to many age groups, offer protection against the original COVID-19 v...

OLEAN — Olean General Hospital and Bradford Regional Medical Center presented their August star awards. Brittany Smith, who is a medical office assist...

CASA Trinity, an addiction recovery agency formed from a merger in April with Olean-based Council on Addiction Recovery Services (CAReS), plans to exp...

PORTVILLE — Since 2019, many of Portville’s residents have been diagnosed with cancer — including two young Portville Central School students, Heath P...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday the state was stepping up its polio-fighting efforts as the virus that causes the life-threatening dis...

September is Suicide Prevention Month — a time to raise awareness of the often stigmatized and taboo subject. Today, Olean city firefighters are weari...

Editor's note: This article originally listed incorrect information regarding actual cases of polio in the Mid-Hudson region. Only one case of polio h...

ALFRED — The nursing department at Alfred State will be hosting a site visit for initial accreditation of the baccalaureate in nursing program by the ...

ALFRED — Alfred State students and faculty will be involved in the Remote Area Medical free clinic at Genesee Valley Central School on Sept. 24-25. At...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York state is dropping its mask requirement on public transportation thanks in part to the availability of new booster shots targe...

John Fetterman has been in elected politics for nearly 20 years, and last spring was on the cusp of taking the Democratic nomination in a very winnabl...

OLEAN — If you’ve had a friend or family with a medical emergency, Sept. 17 will be your chance to check out and appreciate emergency responders like ...

You probably notice when your favorite pair of jeans starts to feel a bit snug. But do you also keep tabs on your feline or canine companion’s waistli...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In his first national TV interview since his stroke in mid-May, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fette...

Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, acco...

BELMONT — A free medical clinic that attracted hundreds of patients last year is returning in September. Remote Area Medical — a nonprofit provider of...

OLEAN — Twenty-two new cases of COVID-19 were reported by the Cattaraugus County Health Department Monday, pushing the total in August above 700 cases...

COUDERSPORT, PA. — People lost to drug overdose will be honored and support will be offered for survivors an an event marking Overdose Awareness Day i...