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Main Category: Irritable-Bowel Syndrome Also Included In: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 07 Oct 2008 - 0:00 PDT printer ...

University of Iowa researchers and collaborators have found, in a previously identified gene, a variation that likely contributes to one in five cases of isolated cleft lip.

An Upper St. Clair teenager accused in a series of sexual assaults in the high school faces up to four years of incarceration following a hearing yesterday in Allegheny County juvenile court.

Bedroom Fan Cuts SIDS Risk by 72% MONDAY, Oct. 6 a ' Just keeping the air moving around a bedroom seems to dramatically reduce a baby's risk of sudden infant death syndrome , new research suggests.

Two University of Pittsburgh students who were stabbed inside Hemingway's Cafe in Oakland early this morning have been identified.

Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh region have fared better lately with unemployment than the rest of the United States -- but that may be changing.

MicroRNA expression profiles can be used to identify an aggressive type of papillary thyroid cancer that is often otherwise difficult to detect, according to data to be presented on Oct.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating a research monkey that bit and mauled the hand of a University of Pittsburgh lab technician.

Main Category: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience Biology / Biochemistry MRI / PET / Ultrasound Article Date: 02 Oct 2008 Providing a glimpse into the infinitesimal, ...

David Malehorn slipped into his red "toy boat" kayak Wednesday and paddled to the grand opening of the Fourth Street kayak and canoe landing in the South Side.

If it's autumn in Western Pennsylvania and you're looking for fantastic foliage, chances are you might end up in historic Ligonier.

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 01 Oct 2008 - 6:00 PDT Today at the annual meeting of the Transplant Financial Coordinators Association, ...

Physicists have exploited a special "flaw" in diamond crystals, manipulatingA them into monitoring magnetic signals from individual electrons and atomic nuclei and allowingA scientists to spy on some of the ...

Commission for Women kicks-off Breast Cancer Awareness Month in honor of the women and families who have so valiantly fought the disease.

APT Pharmaceuticals, a specialty drug development company focused on inhaled treatments for serious lung diseases, announced today the completion of a $32.3 million Series B financing.

"God challenges you and me. I challenge you, as I hope you challenge me, to be excited about our faith." - Bishop Zubik's installation Mass, Sept.

Insecticide malathion initiates chain reaction that deprives tadpoles of food source, indirectly killing them at doses too small to kill them directly PITTSBURGH-The latest findings of a University of ...

The University of Pittsburgh's Clinical and Translational Science Institute Community PARTners Program and the Research Network Development Core at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC will host a ...

Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to quickly and reversibly fine-tune the activity of individual proteins in cells and living mammals, providing a powerful new ...

In July, WTAE first told you about a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center doctor's concerns about the connection between cell phones and cancer.