http://www.post-gazette.com/ Health, Science, Environment, Medicare news en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:46:46 -0500 15 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/09325/1015408-100.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON ??? Democrats have hit the magic number of 60 to move ahead on historic health care legislation. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015384-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015385-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Physicists returned to their future on Friday. About 10 p.m. outside Geneva, scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, succeeded in sending beams of protons clockwise around the 17-mile underground magnetic racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most expensive physics experiment. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014926-56.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Standing in ponchos and under a canopy of umbrellas, a few hundred people gathered in the rain in front of UPMC Braddock yesterday to decry UPMC's decision to shutter the hospital there, hoping their messages -- conveyed over a crackly portable speaker -- would sway the medical giant to change its mind about closing the facility. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015036-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml With less than three weeks remaining before negotiators gather in Copenhagen to hammer out a global response to climate change, a rapid-fire succession of countries are unveiling national plans that serve as opening bids for reining in heat-trapping emissions. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015037-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn French or Chinese by having the instruction CDs play while you sleep. If any learning happens that way, most scientists say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, not causing nouns and verbs to seep into a sound-asleep mind. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014985-84.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON -- Women can delay their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21, and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines released today by a major medical group. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014986-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON -- Flanked by a panoply of health reform advocates in a packed Capitol meeting room i Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid showcased the sweeping plan he had unveiled the day before to overhaul the nation's health insurance system and expand coverage to millions. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014702-56.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml More than 150 Mon Valley residents, health care activists and elected officials gathered at Braddock Carnegie Library last night, where Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato hosted a public hearing on UPMC's decision to shutter its hospital there at the end of January. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014752-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml The Earth's oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from fuel emissions since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014605-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Ambulatory surgical centers, free-standing facilities where patients can go for minor procedures, continue to proliferate in Pennsylvania. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014698-113.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions yesterday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of U.S. households are switching to power-hungry, wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014218-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014216-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014209-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Q. Will I receive Diprivan (propofol), the same medication implicated in Michael Jackson's death as part of my next anesthetic? Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014258-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml State and federal agencies are checking southwestern Pennsylvania streams for the non-native, golden algae that had a role in killing aquatic life in 30 miles of Dunkard Creek in September. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014359-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml In 2002 Responsible Travel became one of the first travel companies to offer customers the option of buying so-called carbon offsets to counter the planet-warming emissions generated by their airline flights. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014360-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml The NASA rover Spirit, stuck in sand on Mars, tried to move Tuesday for the first time since May. In less than a second, it stopped. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014256-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Once a month, Rose Jelinek visits Gateway Rehabilitation Center's Cranberry office and relives the worst day of her life: The day her oldest child, Ryan Schatzel, 21, died of a heroin overdose. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014306-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Local breast cancer experts were "shocked" and irritated by a federal task force recommendation that women ages 40-49 do not necessarily need routine, yearly mammograms, as is currently advised. But they were equally concerned about the estimated 30 percent of those 40 and older who aren't tested. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014210-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml GOAL Project is joining with Square Cafe in Regent Square to sponsor a Spoken Word Night from 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014212-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Getting through the stress of day-to-day living is hard for many of us. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014214-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Between Your Ears is a column featuring some of the latest findings in brain and psychological research that will appear occasionally in Health. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014224-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml International Petroleum Investment Corp., the Middle Eastern investment group that acquired Nova Chemicals earlier this year, yesterday said it isn't planning to acquire Bayer AG's MaterialScience business but it could tap Bayer as a joint venture partner. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014307-113.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml WASHINGTON -- Buried in the text of yesterday's joint declaration between the President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao was a significant climate announcement: The Obama administration will offer concrete emission reduction targets as part of next month's negotiations, as long as the Chinese offer a climate proposal of their own. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09322/1014311-53.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml To Taunya Tinsley, the problem is clear: black communities are deeply vulnerable to depression, anxiety and grief, but the place where so many African-Americans seek refuge -- their house of Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500