pharmacology

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...

Scientists who’ve been reluctant to talk up any new COVID-19 treatment are suddenly using the expression “game changer” to describe the Pfizer antivir...

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect. Weeks earlier, the ...

BELMONT — The head of Allegany County’s largest hospital is urging residents to get vaccinated, “not because of any mandate, but because it makes sens...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that decriminalizes possession and sale of hypodermic needles and syringes in New York. Under the new law, ne...

BELMONT — Allegany County residents needing a Pfizer booster shot for COVID-19 can get one on Tuesday. The Allegany County Department of Health will c...

Millions of Americans are now eligible to receive a Pfizer booster shot to help increase their protection against the worst effects of the coronavirus...

WELLSVILLE — Allegany County’s largest hospital is asking residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as case counts rise and more than a third of in...

OLEAN — More than 100 Cattaraugus County residents who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have contracted the coronavirus — they are known as brea...

More than two dozen more COVID-19 cases in the area were reported on Monday from over the weekend. As of Monday afternoon, Cattaraugus County Departme...

While we never received any reports in the Southern Tier of sick or dead song birds afflicted with an unknown disease in nearby Pennsylvania and other...

Overdoses can kill. As a person begins to overdose their breath slows and may even stop. The key to saving the life of a person who is overdosing is t...

The Onstott family of Mount Pleasant is trying to get back to living normally after their 11-year-old daughter, Madisyn, was diagnosed with juvenile i...

OLEAN — If the Council on Addiction/Recovery Services in Olean collaborates with Southern Tier Base CASA Trinity, the results expected will be expande...

ALBANY (TNS) — More than two dozen Democratic state senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week calling for them to ...

ANGELICA — Those seeking COVID-19 vaccines can do so at the Allegany County Fair. The county Department of Health reported that the Johnson & Johnson ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — We’re learning more about the COVID-19 virus and its treatment every day. Advances in science? Not necessarily. Some things were alre...

OLEAN — As Olean city firefighters were noticing an increase in opioid overdoses earlier this year, the city’s fire chief sought a way to get a life-s...