Health

Allegheny Health Network and Highmark Health invested $26 million in a new in-patient critical care unit for cardiovascular patients in early 2016. Ac...

Armstrong County is near the top of the list in Pennsylvania in an unfortunate category: The number of deaths per capita caused by heroin. And it’s a ...

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced in 2015 that they were going to have a baby girl, the couple revealed so...

A visit with relatives in South Africa led Stephanie Wilkins to an extremely satisfying, relaxing and rewarding hobby. In some ways, she says, it’s th...

Frances Halley had always known she had a heart murmur, but it wasn’t until she saw Dr. Stephen Bailey, Allegheny General Hospital’s director of cardi...

On Oct. 11, Ontario County hosted its fourth annual Wellness Fair. Organized by the Ontario County Wellness Committee, the Wellness Fair’s objective w...

From September 2015 through October 2016, Community College of Allegheny County has collected 148 pints of blood from nine blood drives hosted across ...

Move over broccoli. Step aside carrots. It turns out there’s another vegetable in your kitchen that can help reduce inflammation, as well as maintain ...

The Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium was recognized last year by the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health for “Excellence in Drivin...

The employees of a credit union that has implemented an incentive-laden health and wellness program developed by Ottawa Kent are listening, and pocket...

Kelly Evans knows how important her family’s health is, but she wishes her husband, Nate, was more proactive about his checkups. “He doesn’t have the ...

My dad worked for the same company with the same job title for 37 years. He worked for the Nabisco Co. in Buffalo, a mechanic on an assembly line that...

During the 17th century, Ganondagan, which the Seneca refer to as “Town of Peace,” was home to a thriving Native American population of approximately ...

Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit 28 is only halfway into its ambitious BodPod weight-loss adventure for school employees in Armstrong and Indiana c...

Students at Apollo-Ridge High School and Indiana County Technology Center are more than happy to roll up their sleeves for a good cause. The technolog...

It’s safe to say the kitchen is a popular room. It’s a hub of activity in most homes. For these reasons and others, a room of such importance requires...

48 Million: Number of people in the United States who are stricken with foodborne illnesses each year. That’s about one in every six people. Of those ...

When Ada Fetsko was born on April 25, 2006, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Her mother, Denise Fetsko, had what she recalls as a normal pregnancy ...