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Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:45:45 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09190/982822-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml An attorney announced today that about 100,000 people who worked for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the West Penn Allegheny Health System and the former Mercy Hospital will soon receive notices about a potential class action suit Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:50:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09190/982549-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml The International Astronomical Union, the governing body of astronomers that shocked Pluto lovers in 2006 by announcing that Pluto was no longer a planet, will hold its next general assembly in Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09190/982663-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml The West Penn Allegheny Health System said it absorbed a $27 million loss for the first nine months of the fiscal year that ended June 30. Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09190/982704-298.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Modern wheelchairs are lightweight, ergonomically designed chariots that require the use of arms rather than legs for mobility. Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982603-113.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Two members of the Cromwell Township Board of Supervisors in Huntingdon County were sentenced to three to six months in jail today for contempt of court Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:25:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982330-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Charity events: The Wesley Spectrum Creative Arts Music Program is sponsoring a "Night at the Hard Rock" at 9:30 p.m. July 11 at the Hard Rock Café, 230 W. Station Square Drive. Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982331-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Classes/clinics: Siva Yoga is sponsoring "Miracles, Meditation and Medicine," a lecture and workshop featuring Dattatreya Siva Baba, on July 12 at the Holiday Inn University Center, 100 Lytton Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982339-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Initially the reports stated that Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest, but what killed him remains a mystery. Days later, television pitchman Billy Mays died of heart disease while asleep. Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982340-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml With his hands moving among controls, his sock-covered feet shifting among wooden pedals, and his eyes locked onto a computer monitor, James Garver looked like he was playing a wigged-out version of Bach on a high-tech organ. Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982341-140.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Three local women will be part of the U.S. dragon boat team that will compete in the 2009 World Dragon Boat Races in Prague, the Czech Republic, Aug. 27-30. Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982342-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Allegheny General Hospital personnel rolled Tinisha Nelson into a surgical suite for her robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy about 2 p.m. on June 11. Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09189/982351-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml The Shriners organization has "overwhelmingly" rejected a recommendation by its corporate board to close the Shriners Hospital for Children in Erie and five other hospitals, according to Erie Shriners spokesman Bob Howden. Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09188/982321-113.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON -- Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and energy officials urged the Senate today to pass legislation to reduce the pollution linked to the planet's rising temperature. Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:11:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09188/982301-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is backing efforts to create a new government program to provide long term care insurance as part of the broader health care overhaul. Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:05:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09188/982300-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama today welcomed progress on health care overhaul as top Senate Democrats and the administration closed in on a deal with hospitals to help pay for the president's proposed expansion of medical coverage to the uninsured. Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:04:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09187/982131-68.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON -- What if a new health plan set up shop in your town offering coverage at a much lower price than other insurers? Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09187/981621-369.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml This weekend offers stargazers one last good opportunity to pull out their telescopes and view Saturn's narrowing rings before they go dark and Saturn slides down into the evening twilight. Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09187/981622-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml July is National Ice Cream Month and July 19 is National Ice Cream Day. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed it so in 1984. Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09187/982038-454.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml There were no parades or fireworks Wednesday, but July 1 was the independence day that so many nurses and hospital caregivers had hoped and battled for. Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09187/982045-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml After putting out a fire in a burning building tomorrow, groups of firefighters from across the county will sit in lawn chairs, put on special vests and get into air-conditioned cars. Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09187/982054-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Elizabeth Konecsni traveled to Hungary this weekend with an urn of her sister's ashes and a list of questions about her sudden death. Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400