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

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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tears, frustration and grit

WebIn just a day or two, the hospital was scheduled to give the first doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine to 1,200 staff members, offering what physician David Hess called a “glimmer of …

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A fight to survive – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive

WebAlexandra [email protected]. Dec. 17, 2021. KANE, Pa. D ennis Reigel was dying when a nurse called his wife Susan in October, suggesting she should come …

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Poor Health

WebArea hospitals were sending delinquent bills to debt collections long after most health systems around the country discontinued the practice. Until recently UPMC was one of …

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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 …

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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 Highmark threatened to …

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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-Gazette) …

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The human toll – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive

WebFor every ton of airborne pollution, there’s a well-defined impact on human health, and more specifically, mortality. In 2010, the Post-Gazette published its own epidemiological study …

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The Human Toll Part 2 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive

WebThe Human Toll Part 2. Two gas-compressor stations in the Cibus-Imperial complex sit less than a half mile southwest of the Washington County home of Tim and Brenda Ann …

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Dr. Bruce Dixon: a physical healer, medical teacher and public …

WebBruce W. Dixon died on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2013. He was 74. Dr. Dixon made it to the top of two professions: medicine and public health. He was a stellar diagnostician and a gifted …

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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 direction, …

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‘It will overwhelm us’

WebHospital beds in the halls. C OVID-19 hospitalizations in Pennsylvania have been soaring: the number of people receiving care in ICUs spiked 62% to 1,089 between Nov. 1 and …

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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 saved …

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It's quiet in Uniontown

WebThe Uniontown Hospital ICU had no crisis guidelines for medical care, no policies to follow as every bed filled with COVID-19 patients in December — just the principles of triage, …

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412 Kids parenting podcast Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WebA Post-Gazette parenting podcast centered around the well-being of Pittsburgh’s youngest citizens. May 07, 2024 Parenting tips from Charlotte Heyward-Wesley Charlotte Heyward …

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Courageamidcrisis – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive

WebA crush of names clogs a computer screen in an office where sick and hurting people shuffle in one by one, bundled against the winter cold.. Nurse Aubrey Schmeider calls that office …

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Back Pay Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WebBy Rich Lord Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The number of Pennsylvanians having spinal fusion surgery for back pain recently surpassed 20,000 a year, and concern over the procedure …

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Offspring of the drug crisis

WebThree years later, the total number of births to Pennsylvania moms had ballooned to 741 in 2020, with 1-in-10 of those children exposed to drugs during pregnancy — a 60% …

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

WebDae Dae Grant #3 of the Duquesne Dukes reacts during the game against the Brigham Young Cougars in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at CHI …

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