New Study Looks At Treating Appendicitis With Antibiotics
For years, we've thought the only way to treat appendicitis was to remove the appendix. Well, what if you could treat it simply with antibiotics?
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For years, we've thought the only way to treat appendicitis was to remove the appendix. Well, what if you could treat it simply with antibiotics?
The FBI is now investigating Johnson & Johnson over a device used to treat thousands of women for a common problem.
The idea of reproducing a living being from DNA is the stuff Jurassic Park and Dolly the Sheep are made of. But is it really possible to reproduce someone from DNA?
It was a big day for two Salvation Army employees. Kate Esker and Mike Riemer both underwent surgery at Allegheny General Hospital on Tuesday, and are recovering well. Esker donated a kidney to Riemer.
Recently, chain restaurants Pizza Hut and Taco Bell announced the removal of artificial ingredients and coloring in its foods. It's a growing trend among food manufacturers and restaurants, but will it make a difference to your health?
Are you among the millions who feel like they're not getting enough sleep? Tired all the time? Snoring could be the culprit, whether from you or your partner. However, there are three things you can do to cut down on the snoring.
After a day of going full-speed, it's often hard to put on the brakes and simply coast into sleep.
As Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC celebrates its 125th anniversary this week, it's fitting to remember that the idea for a Pittsburgh hospital exclusively for kids came from ... a kid.
For people whose cancer has stopped responding to standard therapy and are out of treatment options, a new trial is starting soon called the NCI-MATCH trial.
Nails on a chalkboard is a sound that just about everybody hates. But what if almost every sound you heard made you angry or anxious?
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's lung transplant program has been put on probation by the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that oversees American transplants.
Gov. Tom Wolf and Attorney General Kathleen Kane hailed a court decision Friday that they had sought in a bid to protect Medicare Advantage enrollees caught in the middle of a feud between two western Pennsylvania health care giants.
You'd never know by her smiles that this little girl was near death and is without a family to call her own.
Being forgetful as our hair goes gray doesn't mean we're losing it because being absent-minded is a part of normal aging.
When it comes to kids having traumatic injuries, there is a time of day they're at the highest risk - school dismissal time.
