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Danville resident Dr. Erica McElroy founded Casa Materna Atitlán, a maternal health clinic and birthing center in the rural mountain town of San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala, in 2014 along with Dr. Jessica Oliveira.

DANVILLE — Geisinger will use a 2024 Amazon Web Services IMAGINE Grant to further develop the health system’s use of genomic information.

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., setting the stage for internal friction over public health initiatives.

Authorities say four people died in a New Hampshire home on Christmas Day due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. Police were called to the house in the town of Wakefield around 4:20 p.m. for a welfare check. Television station WMUR reports the deceased included two older adults and two younger adults, and that other family members had called police to check on them after they didn’t show up as expected at a Christmas Day gathering.

Hospital volunteers and workers observe holiday traditions to help boost the spirits of Pennsylvania kids undergoing exhausting treatments in unfamiliar environments.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s 2023-24 Legislative Session closed Dec. 1 and the next session, while officially underway, doesn’t fully begin until lawmakers are sworn into office Jan. 7.

SHAMOKIN — Central Susquehanna Opportunities, Inc. (CSO) successfully distributed 12,000 hygiene bags to local school districts across the region. The bags, provided at no cost to families, were distributed in September to help alleviate the additional financial burdens that often accompany the back-to-school season. These kits contained essential hygiene items that support the well-being of students as they returned to school.

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HARRISBURG — A new study projects that as Pennsylvania’s population grays, the number of rural residents with Alzheimer’s and related disorders will continue to grow beyond the care network capacity needed to support them.