Ray Zonas is a man with a unique perspective on the modern world, as he recently woke up from a 30 year coma. He was soon asking for ice cream, and, in another important milestone,…
A NASA funded study to understand the benefits of 15-minute power naps has concluded they are surprisingly effective if used correctly. Sleep researcher Karen Gould identified subjects in stressful office environments where complaints about tiredness and…
[Washington, DC] The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has released a new food pyramid for 2016 designed to aid Americans trying to losing weight. This follows previous redesigns of the food pyramid in 1991 and 2005,…
The White House announced today that a truce has been declared in the longstanding War on Cancer, which was started by President Nixon in 1971. All efforts to vanquish the enemy are to be halted…
Pittsburgh’s premier advertising agency hit the jackpot this week when it won a huge contract from Big Pharma to promote it’s latest blockbuster drug for treating a life-threatening heart condition. At least they thought they…
Though an East End neighborhood bar may seem an unlikely place for a breakthrough in modern psychiatric practice to occur, that is exactly what happened this week as a group of male friends of varying…
There’s been no love lost between UPMC and Highmark this past year, as each company claims the other is a selfish money-grubbing pile of hospital waste from the renal ward. Many believe both sides have…
Dr. Randall Crouper had only being working for a week at the Diagnostic Evaluation Center in Pittsburgh’s Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic when he knew he was encountering something he had not learned about in…