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OLEAN — Great Lakes Anesthesiology will arrive at Olean General Hospital on New Year’s Day to replace Southern Tier Anesthesiologists. The Buffalo-bas...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Last season, their pedigrees were not dissimilar. The men’s basketball teams of St. Bonaventure and the University at Buffalo had so...

Hair loss (or alopecia) for a woman can be emotionally painful. While some men with no hair are considered handsome, this is not the case for women wh...

Photo submitted The Olean General Hospital rapid response team, celebrating five years of service, has performed nearly 3,000 cardiac catheterization ...

OLEAN — The community is voicing support of Southern Tier Anesthesiologists, while Olean General Hospital continues to defend its decision to replace ...

Until recently, my brother’s calendar — and time — was totally penciled in with doctor appointments. Jim had 10 specialists to visit with as well as h...

(TNS) If Lauren Dungan had waited just 30 more minutes, she might be dead. On the morning of Oct. 25, 2017, she was sitting in her Huntersville apartm...

In February, I had open heart surgery to repair a mitral valve and have a bypass. It’s an experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I’d had a series of te...

OLEAN — Lyn Nolan was working a shift at Olean General Hospital when a coworker, but nearly complete stranger, approached her to tell her he was going...

If you’ve ever come across fogged-over car headlights, stared at an impressionist painting such as Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” or peeked through a clou...

Polyps Small growths of tissue that typically arise from a membranous area such as the inside of the intestinal tract or bladder. They are abnormal an...

In the summer of 2017, Christine Hoffman temporarily lost sight in one of her eyes and was admitted as a patient at the University of Rochester's Flau...

A singular sales pitch arrived in the post. It was addressed to me by name. A California company called Edwards Lifesciences wanted to know if I might...

IRMC Physician Group Orthopedics now performs innovative and custom total knee replacements. The new custom total knee replacements are unique to each...

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

Have you heard the news? Botox is not just for women anymore. Kate Braun and Karen Kovalchick watched as their respective husbands, Brett and Nathan, ...

It was a busy 2017 in the cardiology program at IRMC, which started its Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, or PCI, program in late 2016. “They can do...

If you have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and you cannot tolerate continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), what else can be done? And if all fails,...