http://www.post-gazette.com/ Health, Science, Environment, Medicare news en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Thu, 9 Sep 2010 06:40:27 -0400 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/10252/1085924-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml If the weather cooperates, go outside and look up at the sky Friday night. You will get a great opportunity to see the International Space Station. The space station will be seen as a steady white pinpoint of light moving slowly across the sky. All you need to view the orbiting outpost are your eyes and a clear view of the horizon. Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10252/1086107-454.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Hoping to spur legislators to pass food safety reforms, three prominent consumer groups Wednesday released a report identifying 85 recalls triggered by contaminated foods nationwide over the last 13 months -- the majority linked to the potentially deadly bacteria salmonella, the pathogen responsible for the country's largest ever egg recall last month. Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085693-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Events: The Health Ministry Team of Good Shepherd Catholic Parish is sponsoring a walking club that meets at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at the soccer field at Woodland Hills High School, 2550 Greensburg Pike, Churchill. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:35:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085704-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Madison Miller of Grove City was born with moderate to severe hearing loss, but wore hearing aids from the age of 6 months, so she had some hearing ability. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:01:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085859-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml In the latest step in science's never-ending quest for tinyness, researchers at Northwestern University have made edible nanostructures. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085860-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Q. If I tweeze out the single hair that grows from a facial mole, will it cause cancer, as my friend insists? Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085694-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Special events: The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is sponsoring a "Forever Green 2010 Community Celebration and Environmental Health Fair" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 9 at Crossroads Park, Darragh and Terrace Streets, Oakland. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085705-298.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Just as Jeannette Wing has made time for karate and ballet amid the rigors of top-level academia, the computer scientist has made key moves to promote advances in her field. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085722-114.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml One after another, the college students participating in psychologist Art Aron's study on romantic rejection walked in with wrenching stories of heartache. "I can't sleep," one told an interviewer. "I just lie there, wondering what happened and what could have been." "It hurts so much," said another. "I crumble. I just start crying." A young man wondered, "What's the point, with her?" Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085747-113.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml There won't be a Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling moratorium in Pennsylvania while Ed Rendell is governor -- even if that means only four more months. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085664-100.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml A Marshall University program that offers children free dental care at school says more than 43 percent of the children it saw last year had untreated dental decay. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:59:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085663-113.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Experts are set to testify in a federal lawsuit in Chicago, where five states -- including Pennsylvania -- are asking a judge to close Illinois shipping locks to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:56:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085641-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml The research has been going on for more than 10 years. Studies number in the hundreds. Millions of dollars have been spent. But government health officials still cannot decide whether the chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, a component of some plastics, is safe. The substance lines most food and drink cans, and is used to make hard, clear plastic bottles, containers and countless other products. Nearly everyone is exposed to it. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085642-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Campers know the pesky feeling of ants crawling up and down their arms and legs. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085561-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml HARRISBURG -- Last year, the insects called brown marmorated stink bugs were a nuisance. This year, they are a serious threat to fruit orchards, and experts are not sure how destructive they might become. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085407-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400