pharmacology

Meaningful action on the drug epidemic is long overdue. State lawmakers should already be working on an agenda for next year. The National Institutes ...

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...

ALBANY (TNS) — In an effort to widen the pool of candidates seeking to become troopers the State Police will raise the maximum age to join their agenc...

AMSTERDAM (TNS) — A wastewater treatment worker who was fired by the city of Amsterdam three years ago after testing positive for marijuana was awarde...

OLEAN — Rep. Nick Langworthy met Wednesday with law enforcement and addiction treatment officials in the Southern Tier to hear about the local impact ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A law to protect doctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is outlawed was signed Fri...

OLEAN — Olean police report charges will be filed after searches at two city cannabis businesses last week. Police Capt. Robert Blovsky, head of the S...

CUBA — Two more pharmacies have joined the Take it To The Box initiative to properly dispose of medications. Cuba Pharmacy, 2 Center St., Fisher’s Pha...

CLIFTON PARK (AP) — A man was fatally shot by sheriff’s deputies after opening fire and wounding two deputies conducting a federal search warrant at a...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s heart is in the right place: he wants to lower health care and prescription drug costs for New Yorkers and fo...

ALBANY (TNS) — New Yorkers will soon be able to access birth control at their local pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription, but it will take at le...

ALBANY — New Yorkers will soon be able to access birth control at their local pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription, but it will take at least a ...

ALBANY — New Yorkers next year won’t have to go through their doctors to get prescription contraceptives under a bill that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochu...

ALBANY — A regional nonprofit will receive aid from the state’s Opioid Settlement Fund to help those in need with addiction recovery. Gov. Kathy Hochu...

ALBANY (TNS) — The number of motorists charged with driving under the influence of narcotics, including marijuana, has risen steadily over the past fi...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York lawmakers are beginning to grapple with the emergence of xylazine in illicit drug supplies as a public health threat sweeping ...

LITTLE VALLEY — A Franklinville was sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court earlier this week to six years in state prison for attempted first-degree as...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul says the state will stockpile the medication mifepristone in light of last week’s ruling by a judge in Texas invalida...