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State Department of Health announces $1.7 million to tackle …

WEBThe Pennsylvania Department of Health is reserving $1.7 million in grant money to address maternal mortality, acting Secretary of Health Debra Bogen …

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Highmark, American Heart Association Pittsburgh launch 'Food is

WEB“In this pregnancy journey, we know that women are so affected by what they eat,” said Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew of AHN.

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Poor Health: Barriers to Health Care for Low-Income America

WEBEarly death is the simplest measure of compromised health. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of U.S. counties conducted by University of Wisconsin researchers …

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The human toll – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive

WEBPollution science is clear even if the skies are not. For every ton of airborne pollution, there’s a well-defined impact on human health, …

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Poor Health

WEBThe relentless economics of the U.S. health-care system have sapped resources in poor areas for decades as hospitals and doctors follow the money in the form of well-insured patients. Doctors and medical care …

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AHN's new Skin Cancer Center features a full-body scanning …

WEBNov 11, 2023. 12:09 PM. At West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield, a large, futuristic machine stands as one of the centerpieces of a new 9,000-square-foot AHN Skin Cancer Center. …

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Saving medicine in Berwick, Pa., after the doctors left town

WEBShe and another nurse, Dallas Riley, opened a clinic in an effort to replace some of the health services lost when Berwick's hospital closed. (Sebastian Foltz/Post …

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WEBThe new rule by the Mine Safety and Health Administration cuts the exposure limit for crystalline silica — a residue from quartz that experts say can be even …

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Pitt study finds 'surprising' cause of irritability in Alzheimer's

WEBNeuropsychiatric symptoms such as anxiety can make it difficult or impossible for caregivers to continue to keep Alzheimer’s patients in their homes, one researcher …

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Obituaries Pittsburgh Post Gazette

WEBPittsburgh Post Gazette - a place for remembering loved ones; a space for sharing memories, life stories, milestones, to express condolences, and celebrate life of your …

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Poor Health

WEBJoanne Schleifer, 58, of Braddock gathers her thoughts during a memorial service for UPMC Braddock in 2011. Dr. Richard Russman, right, with Dr. Robert Green at Catholic …

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Pitt to create doctor of chiropractic program, Pa.'s first

WEBMaddie Aiken. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. [email protected]. Feb 20, 2024. 6:35 AM. The University of Pittsburgh will launch a doctor of chiropractic program …

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UPMC's board is a silent but powerful force in fate of region's …

WEBUPMC's board is a silent but powerful force in fate of region's health care Reporting Julian Routh | September 9, 2019. A. s its feud with rival health insurer …

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The Human Toll Part 2 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive

WEBThe link between the Warners’ health problems and pollution is reflected in a recent compendium of 1,778 peer-reviewed studies about shale-gas industry operations. …

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Those helicopters overhead actually are flying ICUs

[email protected]. September 12, 2019. A fter a horse kicked her in the head in 2015, the unconscious woman took a 16-minute ride on a LifeFlight helicopter that …

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Pittsburgh's Powerful Nonprofits Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WEBPittsburgh’s most famous nonprofit collapse -- the 1998 bankruptcy of the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation -- led 15 years later to the …

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Doing well: 7 wellness trends for the new year

WEBPittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dec 31, 2023. 9:39 AM. The wellness space is a crowded one, more so than ever as approaches old and new gain traction via social …

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Out-of-state patients surge at Allegheny County abortion clinics as

WEBIn the three weeks since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision dismantled nearly 50 years of federal abortion

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Duquesne upsets BYU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament …

WEBDuquesne upsets BYU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at CHI Health Center in Omaha, Neb. By webdesk. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Dae …

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6 counties in northern Pennsylvania will soon have no maternity …

WEBPenn Highlands Healthcare Elk Hospital is closing its obstetrics unit May 1, leaving a six-county area of north-central Pennsylvania — twice the size of Delaware — …

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Left behind: Pittsburgh's troubled Homewood neighborhood faces

WEBI n the mid-1980s, the neighborhood had been prepping for a revival.. By 1987, the Homewood-Brushton Revitalization & Development Corp., under Mr. Birru’s …

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