physiology

If you’re like most adults, you might have a hard time falling or staying asleep. In fact, a 2018 Consumer Report found that 68 percent of Americans s...

Those in the Indiana, Pennsylvania, region hoping to lose weight, live healthier or get their nutrition in order after being diagnosed with a health c...

BRADFORD, Pa. – For the second year, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s arts program will offer four Saturday Morning Art workshops for childr...

WESTONS MILLS — Construction is done and the furnishing will soon follow at the new Weston’s Manor treatment center for women, which also carries the ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Have you ever filled your bird feeder only to have the food devoured by hungry deer? Under new proposed regulations, that could prompt ...

Olean High School graduate Eli Hendrix, class of 2018, left for Ohio University late last summer to begin his journey in public health and medicine. H...

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is caused when an individual witnesses or experiences a tragic event. Though they may not surface for months ...

Once again, millennials — anyone born between 1981 and 1996 — are in the news. This time, unbeknownst to them, it’s a plea for help. In October 2018, ...

An estimated 5.8 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s dementia in 2019, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. This incl...

World Autism Day is April 2 Make no mistake about it: The physical and mental health benefits of sleep are endless. With a good night’s sleep, you may...

Thanks to glands of the endocrine system like the ovaries, testes, thyroid and hypothalamus, special chemical messengers known as hormones influence t...

Let’s talk about sex. If those words grabbed your attention, it may have more to do with the reality that our nation doesn’t normalize the conversatio...

James Decker, 51, jokes that he “won the big grand prize” when he learned he had both diabetes and heart disease. But thanks to prompt and attentive c...

“My whole life, as soon as I began menstruating, my periods would cause me to double over in pain,” Megan Latulippe says. She has lived with a conditi...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My father died nearly 20 years ago, and I am only now dealing with the grief that I had bottled up over the years. I realize that I wa...

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County’s first confirmed cases of influenza of the 2018-19 flu season have been recorded in Olean. The Cattaraugus County Health D...

Native to New Zealand, Manuka honey has recently become the love child for all things healing. Those who love it not only refer to it as the champagne...

(TNS) CHICAGO — First the new mother feared for the survival and long-term health of her twin boys, born precariously early and taken straight to the ...