Charles Cole Memorial Hospital will offer free mammograms for women 40 and over December 2 at CCMH’s Women’s Health Center. The screenings, funded by the Twin Tiers Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, are intended for the [...]

WASHINGTON – Drug manufacturer Xanodyne will halt marketing of Darvon and related Darvocet brand drugs amid pressure from public health officials. The FDA is also putting pressure on other drug manufacturers to halt production of generic versions of the drug. [...]

Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, an atrocious attack on American freedom NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America.” [...]

Express Care at Charles Cole Memorial Hospital will be open noon to 6 p.m., November 26. Normal hours resume November 29: 4-8 p.m., Monday through Friday. Express Care is an adult and pediatric walk in treatment center for minor illness [...]

BRMC accused of taking kickbacks, now faces $20 million in damages plus millions more in penalties BRADFORD - A federal judge has ruled that Bradford Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospital located in Bradford, Pennsylvania, violated federal law by submitting claims [...]

There is no question that abuse of prescription medication is on the rise at a disturbing rate. In this piece, WIVB News4 takes a look at the popular painkiller Oxycontin and it’s addictive affects.

Charles Cole Memorial Hospital and the Potter County Area Agency on Aging, through a grant by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, will provide seasonal influenza (flu) and pneumoccocal (pneumonia) vaccines at no cost to Potter County adults. This year’s flu vaccine [...]

Integrated Internal Medicine at Charles Cole Memorial Hospital will hold a walk in flu clinic for its patients only from 8 a.m.-4 p.m., November 16. Patients are reminded to bring their insurance cards. Additional CCMH offices will provide flu vaccine [...]

Port Allegany Pediatrics at the Port Allegany Community Health Center will offer flu vaccine to patients and their immediate family by appointment. Patients are reminded to bring their insurance cards. For an appointment, call 814-642-7205.

Contract will provide resources to help individuals stop smoking in Potter and Tioga counties among others Clinical Outcomes Group, Inc., (COGI) a 501 c 3 nonprofit health and social service organization located in Pottsville and Northumberland Counties has been awarded a contract [...]

Everyday Americans recycle their trash because they know it’s an important activity that can have a positive impact on the environment. But once a year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets aside November 15 to remind everyone that recycling plays [...]

The FDA issued a proposed rule, Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements, proposing to modify the required warnings that appear on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements.  These new required warnings would consist of nine new textual warning statements accompanied by [...]

Charles Cole Memorial Hospital will host therapeutic touch at 7 p.m. November 11 at CCMH’s Patterson Cancer Care Center. Therapeutic Touch is free and open to the public. For more information, call 274-9301, ext. 1487.

1490NewsBlog The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has received a $350,000 gift from George Duke in honor of his mother, Sarah B. Dorn, for a 17-rank pipe organ in the campus’s new chapel. “The exquisite Schantz organ was the missing [...]