[Heinz Field, November 1] With Ben Roethlisberger returning to lead the Steeler offence against the Bengals, backup quarterback Michael Vick was there to wish him luck and to show him some medical literature on the…
A well-known national sports show host has had the crushing realization that he has been getting genuinely angry and over-emotional for years over nothing. “This has been a humbling experience, I can tell you.” The…
During the course of his duties staffing the Emergency Room, physician Alec Keyes sees a lot of things, including no small number of people with objects stuck in their rectum. He used to attempt to…
A clinical trial to determine the benefits of yoga and meditation for handling stress has inadvertently stumbled upon an even better approach. The findings came about almost by accident as researcher Dr. Mary Greene interviewed…
The internet was clogged this week as millions streamed candid footage of Planned Parenthood’s vile practice of selling baby parts for huge profits. The videos – made by the venerable Center for Medical Progress in…
Delivering a terminal diagnosis is always hard, but it is done by doctors with sensitivity and sympathy every day. Today was no different, as the Republican Party was clinically determined to be in the advanced…
Following closely on the heels of his run-in with a reporter over a crass attempt to question his sexuality, Tom Hardy has again taken exception to an inappropriate question, this time inadvertently killing the impudent…
[NICHD, Bethesda, MD] A nationwide clinical study has confirmed that the mysterious disease that seems to affect most of the teenage population, turning them into bizarrely difficult people to deal with, does not appear to…
[MIT, Cambridge, MA] An unprecedented computational meta-analysis of all data related to cancer deaths worldwide has determined the best way to significantly and immediately reduce mortality. The work was funded by the CDC in an…
It’s been around for years making ill people feel better for unclear reasons, but nobody ever thought to patent it – until now. A conglomerate made up of leading pharmaceutical companies has applied for and…
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 designed to aid Americans trying to losing weight. This follows previous redesigns of the food pyramid in 1991 and 2005, and a move…
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…
