ELIZABETHTOWN — The Essex County Office for the Aging will host a six-week workshop that focuses on living healthy with chronic conditions. The workshops will be done by telephone with a trained facilitator. Workshops will be held each Tuesday from 1 to 2 p.m., starting May 18. The ...

NEW YORK — New York state health officials will follow federal recommendations and pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker announced Tuesday. After federal health agencies recommended halting the Johnson & Johnson shots so officials ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is recommending a "pause" in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration ...

WATERTOWN — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced a plan to lower prescription drug prices during an appearance in the city Thursday. Standing between the Jefferson County Court Complex and the county office building, Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announced a package of three bills, each ...

PLATTSBURGH — A North Country Chamber of Commerce webinar gathered regional healthcare professionals Wednesday morning and the message was clear: Get the COVID vaccine ASAP. University of Vermont Health Network, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Vice President of Population Health and ...

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist. She wound toward his house in the hills outside of town. The man had been revived by paramedics, and Cox ...