A Lebanon County couple is charged with assaulting and abusing their five adopted children.Stephanie Duncan, 42, and Robert Duncan, 44, both of North Annville Township, are charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault, simple assault, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, endangering the welfare of a child and conspiracy.Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf said the abuse investigation started Jan. 13 when one of the children was taken to Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.According to investigators, the 11-year-old boy was unresponsive and hypothermic, and doctors found bruises on the child’s body.The district attorney said the boy’s siblings, who range in age from 6 to 15, later told investigators he had been sleeping on the floor in an unheated room in the family’s basement and was given little food or water.The children told investigators that they had also experienced physical abuse by the Duncans and the denial of basic needs, Graf said. As
Penn State Health opens 20,000-square-foot outpatient center in former movie theater space
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
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Penn State Health is expanding its services on the West Shore, in the Harrisburg area and in Lancaster County. But, the health system opened its latest outpatient center in its backyard.
Penn State Health Cocoa Outpatient Center opened the 20,000-square-foot outpatient center at the Cocoaplex Center at 1150 Cocoa Ave. in Derry Township.
Two internal medicine practices that were operating on the east and west side of the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center campus, as well as adult endocrinology and nephrology, which were located at the University Physician Center, have moved to the new center.
Want the COVID-19 vaccine? Here’s why main central Pa. providers don’t even have appointments
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
Leo Thielmann, of Lower Macungie, prepares to receive a free COVID-19 vaccine on Jan 27, 2021, at Dorney Park. Lehigh Valley Health Network began vaccinating the public 75 and older during their first drive-thru vaccination clinic.Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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Seven weeks after doses of COVID-19 vaccines began arriving in Pennsylvania, the bleak reality is this:
Penn State Health, the main health care provider for thousands across central Pennsylvania, isn’t accepting requests for COVID-19 vaccines.
As of Friday morning, UPMC, with hospitals and offices across the Harrisburg region, says on its website vaccine is “not yet available to the general public. UPMC hospitals and doctors’ offices are not able to provide additional information and there is no vaccine waiting list.”
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January 07, 2021
By now, everyone has seen countless images of people receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. But once it’s injected into the upper arm, how does it actually interact with the body?
Both vaccines that received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines. They are not live viruses. Instead, they work by giving your body a blueprint to create a piece of the virus that causes COVID-19, called a spike protein.
Once you receive the vaccine, your cell’s machinery uses the mRNA instructions to make the spike protein. This protein is then displayed on the cell surface, and the immune system sees it and responds to it. While mRNA is a type of genetic code, it never enters the center (nucleus) of your cells. “That means it never converts into DNA,” Khalid said. “The mRNA itself is destroyed by the cells after they produce the spike prote