Flu season

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, or UPMC, started a rural residency program two years ago to bolster the rural doctor workforce. Residents start at UPMC Williamsport before transferring to either UPMC Wellsboro in Tioga county or its Cole location in western Pennsylvania.

Holidays should be about spreading joy, not germs. That was the message state health leaders brought to Dunmore on Friday, as they emphasized the importance of receiving the flu vaccine — especially before holiday gatherings and at a time of increased vaccine hesitancy.

'There weren't teachers in the classrooms,' Lackawanna Trail superintendent says of wave of sickness that infected Northeast Pennsylvania and tore through his district.