ELIZABETHTOWN — The Essex County Health Department is now registered as an overdose prevention program through the New York State Department of Health. The focus of ECHD’s Community Opioid Overdose Prevention Program is to train community members to recognize and respond to an overdose and ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. approved updated COVID-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to ...

WASHINGTON — Updated COVID-19 vaccines are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots. And this fall, the first vaccines for another scary virus called RSV are rolling out to older adults and pregnant women. Doctors hope enough people get vaccinated to help avert another ...

SARANAC LAKE — Kinney Drugs has opened RSV vaccination appointments for those age 60 and older at all 96 locations in New York and Vermont. Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, is a common, highly contagious respiratory virus that typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms. In older ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid's part-time emergency room will close on Aug. 20. The final closure date was announced on Monday evening by Adirondack Health, which operates the emergency room at the Lake Placid Health and Medical Fitness Center as well as facilities in Saranac Lake, Tupper ...

LAKE PLACID — Ironman Lake Placid officials are closely monitoring the Air Quality Index for the triathlon on Sunday, especially after the haze from Canadian wildfires caused the cancellation of Ironman’s 70.3 race in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, four weeks ago. “As long as the wind ...