screening

Following a proposed $360 million cut in federal funds to New York’s health and human services programs announced Wednesday by the Trump administratio...

In New York state, 83% of individuals who are recommended to have a mammogram are following the state’s screening guidelines, a percentage that’s been...

BELMONT — The Allegany County Department of Health has released its March clinic schedule. Immunization clinics will be available in Belmont by appoin...

More women than ever before are surviving breast cancer. The National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) reports that breast cancer death rates have decl...

Change was a big part of life in 2020. As the world confronted the COVID-19 pandemic, changes had to be made to keep people safe and prevent the virus...

The American Cancer Society reports that colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women. One in 22 men and one in...

According to an April 2020 report, cervical cancer screening dropped nationwide by 83%. This steep decline is due to the temporary shutdown of medical...

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

I am a registered nurse in Cattaraugus County and a former infection-control nurse, and have been in the profession for 10 years. I contracted COVID-1...

No two women are the same. But when it comes to breast cancer, women from all walks of life share various risk factors for a disease that the World He...

There is an old joke that asks, How do you get to Carnegie Hall? The answer, of course: practice, practice, practice. While Dr. Gopala Ramineni’s advi...

OLEAN — Bethany and Sophia Fratercangelo were busy Wednesday afternoon getting the patio area at Angee’s Restaurant ready. Just a short time before, t...

Themed days, weeks and months are a dime a dozen; but one the male contingent should not overlook is Men’s Health Month in June. After all, it largely...

The National Cancer Institute has estimated there are more than 100 different types of cancer. With cancer still being the second leading cause of dea...

There’s no shortage of medical information on the internet. For men and prostate cancer, how do you separate myth from fact? What about dated and curr...

BELMONT — Allegany County has established a partial stand up of an emergency operations center to address the ever-changing issues related to the coro...

There’s no shortage of medical information on the internet; so, when it comes to men and prostate cancer, how do you separate myth from fact? What abo...

What does “health” and “fitness” mean to you? Is it simply based off of your weight and how much you can lift? What does endurance have to do with it?...