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Fans wait to come in to PPG Paints Arena for the first time in months on Tuesday, March 3, 2021 at PPG Paints Arena.
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Decades ago, not everyone wore a seat belt. Today, it’s become a habit for most people when they get in a vehicle.
The same can be said for some of the habits acquired over a year of living under the covid-19 pandemic, said Jessica Everly, a behavior analyst and associate professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.
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Something in the air: A honey bee collects pollen from a blooming Russian Olive bush in Harrison Hills Park, in 2019.
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While many are eager to welcome warmer temperatures, seasonal allergy sufferers in Western Pennsylvania are likely bracing for the onset of familiar symptoms like watery eyes, nasal congestion and sore throat.
Some of those symptoms resemble covid-19, which may make it difficult for some people to determine whether they’re contending with allergies or the coronavirus.
“With seasonal allergies, typically they’re very focused on upper respiratory symptoms,” Excela Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carol Fox said.
Allegheny General Hospital Heart Specialists Among the First in the Country to Expand Use of Left Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge to Recovery
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Cardiothoracic surgeons at Allegheny General Hospital, a part of Allegheny Health Network, are exploring a new indication for left ventricular assist devices as a bridge to recovery from heart failure after performing an explant procedure on a 21-year old patient from western Pennsylvania.
Manreet Kanwar, MD, is an AHN cardiologist who specializes in heart failure; she is also a board member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation.
“Based on our team’s leading expertise with LVAD technology, we were confident that with the proper pharmacological plan in place, paired with close monitoring, an LVAD could appropriately off-load her left ventricle, allow her heart to heal and put her heart failure into a form of remission.”
PITTSBURGH — A small group of sixth-graders filtered into socially distanced seats on a recent Wednesday in a classroom at Pleasant Hills Middle School — a room whose very design