The holiday season may be over, but cold and flu season has just started.
Hospitalizations for seasonal respiratory illnesses such as influenza, respiratory syncytial vir...
Butler Health System, an affiliate of Independence Health System, hopes to obtain the consent of bondholders and a lender by Dec. 12 to proceed with the merger between In...
GREENSBURG, Westmoreland County — Independence Health System announced on Wednesday morning, Nov. 19, it will negotiate a merger with West Virginia University Health Syst...
A new, long-term study recently released in the New England Journal of Medicine has cardiologists in Western Pennsylvania divided on its potential impacts on the field an...
As changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program start Monday, Sept. 1, more than 500 Butler County residents could lose their usual benefits, according to the...
Vitalant is urging eligible blood donors to donate in July to help avoid a summer blood shortage and possibly win a car.
All donors who give blood between Wednesday and J...
County commissioners agreed Wednesday, May 21, to take county-funded emergency medical training to the next level.
Commissioners voted to begin developing a paramedic tra...
VA Butler Healthcare and the Drug Enforcement Administration are hosting the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 26 at VA Butler’s...
FRANKLIN TWP — Independence Health System is planning to return to profitability next year, according to president and CEO Ken DeFurio.
DeFurio updated the health system’...
Doctors recently performed a heart and kidney transplant without the use of blood products for the first time at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.
The patient is...