public health

OLEAN — Cattaraugus County Public Health Director Dr. Kevin D. Watkins is hopeful that recent indications that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus ...

The people in contemporary America who most pride themselves on their alleged commitment to science and public health are also the most superstitious ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When I called to schedule an annual well-check appointment for my son, I was told that he would need to wear a mask in the o...

Who is a “covidiot”? — One who refuses to acknowledge peer-reviewed science from legitimate sources and instead drifts to fringe science and mis/dis-i...

The delta variant is the new pandemic scare story. Its spread into the U.S. hasn’t led to a surge in deaths or packed hospital wards, but the news of ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — My parents, visiting from the East Coast, were surprised (but not so disappointed) to arrive in Texas and find so many people not ...

There’s some scientific justification for using vaccine passports to allow vaccinated people — and only vaccinated people — back into restaurants, mov...

Several weeks ago, when national surveys suggested that a sizable portion of the U.S. population had no intention of getting vaccinated against COVID-...

It wasn’t so long ago that the big public health crisis facing the nation was opioid abuse and the overdose deaths that were so frequently its result....

In a July 25 Buffalo News article, Jeff Dewart, Wright Ellis and Jim Simon, elected supervisors in the New York towns of Somerset, Cambria and Yates, ...

(TNS) Whenever a vaccine for the coronavirus becomes available, one thing is virtually certain: There won’t be enough to go around. That means there w...

The other day, across a wide and fragrant stretch of mint separating our yards, my neighbor and I talked about the 2020 census. Both of us had read th...

GENEVA (TNS) — At least one Upstate county is blaming drinking and partying for a recent surge of coronavirus cases among young adults. The Democrat &...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo invoked the AIDS crisis of the 1980s Friday to encourage the use of masks during the coronaviru s pandemic. During ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — To hear public health experts describe it, defeating the coronavirus is a massive but straightforward problem, difficult but not im...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Republican proposal to force the governor to adopt new rules that would allow far more businesses to open during the COVID-19 pand...

OLEAN — All clinics of Rehabilitation Today and Rehabilitation Today Services, PLLC, will see patients for physical and occupational therapies as well...

OLEAN — No state of emergency has been declared in the city, but officials are shutting down recreation facilities for the time being over coronavirus...