pandemic

Procrastination is not typically considered a good thing. But as the world spent much of 2020 confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, putting certain thing...

The vaccines are coming. In the last two weeks, two major pharmaceutical companies have made announcements about their covid-19 vaccines. Pfizer’s tes...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s bet on the 2020 race was a simple one: that a nation riven by deep partisanship was ready for a reset. He knew he wouldn...

ALBANY (TNS) — Deaths due to Alzheimer’s and dementia have been surging in New York and across the nation at levels well above normal this year, and a...

OLEAN — The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has affected people in a number of ways with both positive and negative impacts. Professionals with the New York...

BELMONT — Allegany County Department of Health officials say a primary reason the county has seen a dramatic increase in the number of COVID-19 cases ...

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration has released nearly 800 parole violators and more than 2,200 felons convicted of non-violent crimes from state priso...

When you listen carefully enough and long enough to a variety of epidemiologists, you can start to see that their pandemic strategies are converging —...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — New legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand aims to tackle health disparities in communities of color, the LGBTQ comm...

If you step outside on a brisk fall morning and feel a sense of exuberance unlike any other season of the year, you’re not alone. A report by House Be...

A new study estimates that 325,000 children in New York — with more than 1,400 of them in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties — are newly pushed into po...

Volunteers are vital to the survival of many charitable organizations. Without people willing to offer their time and expertise free of charge, many n...

As challenging as the pandemic made spring and summer, it promises to make flu season significantly more difficult than usual, some in the medical com...

WASHINGTON (TNS ) — Federal unemployment data shows the number of New Yorkers telling the government they’ve been out of work for more than six months...

Stress can affect people’s lives at any moment. Some say that a certain measure of stress can be a good thing that pushes individuals to try their bes...

You can get lost in the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter feed. When I visited that infamous German WWII concentration camp during the summer before our last...

For the second day in a row, Western New York had the state’s highest rate of positive coronavirus tests on Sunday, at 1.6%. Central New York was clos...

Cattaraugus County reported one new COVID-19 case over the weekend, while Allegany County reported two new cases. The Cattaraugus County Health Depart...