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Health

Preventing and detecting skin cancer

Have you been spending more time outdoors to enjoy the warmer weather? If your answer is yes, have you also been taking steps to protect your skin from the sun? If not, now is the time to start adding a few important steps to your morning routine to help prevent skin cancer. According to ...

LHU Nursing Honor Society holds fundraiser to benefit community

CLEARFIELD — The Lock Haven Nursing Honor Society, Alpha Delta Nu-Epsilon Upsilon chapter, held a community service online basket raffle, “Baskets of Happiness,” and also collected donations on campus. All money raised during the raffle was used to buy items needed to complete care ...

Telehealth seeks to overcome barriers in rural communities

Using the internet and wireless devices seems like second nature in our modern lives, but did you know that as many as 800,000 Pennsylvanians, or 6% of the commonwealth’s population, does not have access to broadband internet? These individuals and families lack the same connectivity options ...

Motherhood deferred: US median age for giving birth hits 30

For Allyson Jacobs, life in her 20s and 30s was about focusing on her career in health care and enjoying the social scene in New York City. It wasn’t until she turned 40 that she and her husband started trying to have children. They had a son when she was 42. Over the past three decades, ...

Autism awareness

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent data, about one in 44 children from the U.S. have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disability caused by differences in the brain. Some people with ASD ...