Gas-drilling’s wastewater a concern
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA - 11 hours ago
Depending on their concentrations, many of the chemicals can irritate a person’s skin and eyes, and damage kidney, heart, liver and lung function. ...

Relax -- Your holiday health concerns may just be myths
CNN - Dec 18, 2008
Health.com: How to care for problem skin in the winter This oft-repeated factoid probably originated with an old military study in which scientists put ...

Hypothermia Protocol Saves Sudden Cardiac Arrest Patients
eMaxHealth.com, NC - Dec 16, 2008
According to a 2003 study by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, cooling the body temperature to levels consistent with hypothermia improves ...

State concerned about waste water from new gas wells
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Dec 20, 2008
Many of the chemicals, depending on their concentrations, can also cause human skin, eye and nose irritations, and damage kidney, heart, liver and lung ...

Genetic Breakdown In Fanconi Anemia May Have Link To HPV ...
Science Daily (press release) - Dec 3, 2008
This opens the door to a high risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma solid tumors, which develop from skin cells, according to the investigators. ...

City startup markets device for tracking calories burned
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Dec 15, 2008
The disk contains a microchip that measures the wearer's movement, skin temperature, how much he or she sweats and the amount of heat produced by muscles. ...

Aspinwall: Step away from the modern pace
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Nov 30, 2008
Get a couples massage at ESSpa Kosmetika Skincare. Owner Eva Sztupka, a native of Budapest, Hungary, modeled her business on the European-style spa and ...

Research looks at new ways to ease pain of kids' shots
American Medical News (subscription) - Dec 14, 2008
Children experience less pain with a vaccination if the skin is pretreated with an anesthetic and they are taught about what to expect. ...

Passing on tradition
Times-West Virginian, WV - Dec 7, 2008
“We’d have to pull the skin off and it was an ordeal.” At the market, the family would buy sardines — “They weren’t the sardines in the can but they were ...

Since October, pain has had new definition for family of Aaron Smith
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Dec 13, 2008
While his son went through those awful tests and had surgery to implant a port line under his skin for his treatments, he went through the normal stages of ...