Saturday, Aug. 1, is World Lung Cancer Day. In America, lung cancer kills more people each year than breast, prostate and colorectal cancers combined.
According to the Am...
Pennsylvania’s Office of the Attorney General held a public hearing on Friday morning, July 24, at Swiftee’s Lakeview in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, to solicit comme...
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials on Friday said they have linked cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite tied to shredded lettuce to an additional four states, expandin...
Federal health officials are investigating a new outbreak involving the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora.
The outbreak included 72 people as of Wednesday.
The Food ...
Whether it is the “pong!” of the pickleball court or the splash of the pool, many older Americans are heeding the siren call of exercise.
Which is fortunate because, acco...
Those looking for the Genesis Medical Associates primary care facility near Butler Memorial Hospital need not worry; it hasn’t disappeared. It has simply moved a few mile...
NEW YORK — Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest such outbreak in ...
Health officials are encouraging people to use bug spray and mosquito-control efforts as West Nile virus season is off to its earliest and worst start in over two decades...
This article is one in a series of articles about what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Stories in this serie...