WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is hoping to pass a bill in Congress that would help people with substance abuse disorder and addictions, and their families. Especially since the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted many aspects of normal social life, rates of addiction and deaths from ...
NEW YORK — U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it, according to a new study. The COVID-19 pandemic likely drove part of the increase, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in the paper ...
Medicaid coverage will end for millions of Americans in the coming months, and it will push many into unfamiliar territory: the health insurance marketplace. States will start cutting people from the government-funded plans when they no longer qualify based on income, a process that has ...
SARANAC LAKE — St. Joseph’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers and Citizen Advocates are starting a temporary partnership to share resources between the two behavioral health care organizations. St. Joseph’s new interim CEO Zachary Randolph says he is working on ...
MALONE — Katie Strack, Franklin County Public Health director, updated lawmakers on her department’s current priorities prior to the regular meeting of the legislature Thursday at the courthouse. Strack detailed plans to promote breastfeeding to new mothers, upcoming rabies clinics and ...
Walgreens says it will not start selling an abortion pill in 20 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did so. The drugstore chain’s announcement Thursday signals that access to mifepristone may not expand as broadly as federal regulators intended in January, when they finalized ...