Women older than 40 are used to hearing the advice from doctors to undergo an annual mammogram – or X-ray of the breasts – to screen for possible breast cancer.It’s a potentially lifesaving test, but also one that involves a sometimes painful compression of the breast – a fact that ...
The tick population in Pennsylvania is abundant and especially bad this summer thanks to a mild winter and early spring.Now, there’s concern among medical professionals that Lyme disease, which is carried by those black-legged ticks, is exploding across Southwestern Pennsylvania.Doctors ...
Dr. Scott Halbreiner is a cardiac surgeon at Allegheny General Hospital, but he could also be described as an inventor at heart.“For years, I kept a notebook of ideas that would arise from my experiences as a surgeon,” Halbreiner said. “Most of these ideas would be device-related based on ...
Say you’ve accumulated so much, well, stuff in your garage that you haven’t been able to park a vehicle in there this century.Your issue might not be exactly what you think it is.“Be very careful when you’re labeling yourself,” professional organizer Jill Yesko said. “You can call ...
People around the world spent much of the past 15 months at home and indoors because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Whether because of becoming unemployed, working from home or being confined during lockdown, many people didn’t venture outdoors very much at all and that meant not wearing shoes as ...
By plane, boat and foot, 2 billion COVID-19 vaccines are making their way to some of the most remote corners of the globe as part of the largest and fastest vaccine operation in history.To help ensure an equitable global vaccine distribution and end the pandemic as quickly as possible, the ...
