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FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requi...

ALBANY (TNS) — A Cornell Law School professor has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state health department’s recent di...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Living Arts Association is presenting three performances of “Next to Normal” this coming weekend: Friday and Saturday a...

DEAR ABBY: For the past three years I’ve been with a man I believe is the love of my life. Early on, he admitted to a porn addiction that has plagued ...

The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule ...

In a continuing effort to combat social isolation, the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) and Association on Aging in New York (AgingNY) hav...

The American Red Cross is facing a national blood crisis — its worst blood shortage in more than a decade. Dangerously low blood supply levels are pos...

BELMONT — Masks and COVID-19 at-home test kits will be going out to libraries and town halls across Allegany County as the county reported the highest...

OLEAN — Area colleges will require students to receive COVID-19 booster shots this semester. St. Bonaventure University announced Friday that returnin...

Olean General Hospital was among 40 notified by the New York State Department of Health to stop non-essential, non-urgent elective surgeries after hav...

We presumably trust our doctors or we would not be going to them for advice or troubleshooting with our health. But everyone makes mistakes. People ar...

WELLSVILLE — Jones Memorial Hospital welcomes Sharon Draper as its new senior director of nursing. Draper comes to Jones from Noyes Health in Dansvill...

DEAR ABBY : A friend of 40 years got mad at me after the last presidential election. I told her I didn’t want to talk politics, since we voted for dif...

Last month, I saw an elderly patient with underlying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was admitted to the hospital with a bone stuck in his t...

ALBANY (TNS) — Thousands of prison inmates from across the state were for years unfairly punished — including some placed in solitary confinement — af...

A newly released video shows a New York woman illegally injecting a teenager with a Covid-19 vaccine at her home, despite not having his parents’ cons...

WELLSVILLE — With more COVID-19 cases reported in Allegany County, local hospital leaders want to answer the public’s questions on the virus, vaccines...

Dear Doctors: Can you please talk about the omicron variant? I keep hearing different information about whether or not it’s worse than the delta varia...