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Mashup Score: 0No vax card needed to get updated covid shots at local pharmacies - 7 month(s) ago
To get the latest updated covid vaccine, you no longer need that paper vaccine card you may have been carrying in your wallet for the past few years. The CDC announced Wednesday that since the federal government itself is not distributing covid vaccines, the organization will no longer be giving
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Mashup Score: 1
Despite a slight increase in the number of covid-19 cases across the country, rates are still low — and far below the past few summers both regionally and nationally. “Overall, we’ve had a pretty flat trajectory,” LuAnn Brink, chief epidemiologist for the Allegheny County Health Department, said Monday. “The changes
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Mashup Score: 16Children, relatives of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt - 10 month(s) ago
For decades, Carnegie Mellon University viewed whether a student applicant was related to alumni as an “important” or “considered” factor in admissions decisions. But it appears that legacies, as children or relatives of alumni are called, no longer have an edge in admissions decisions at the highly selective university. In
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Mashup Score: 0
The chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and carboplatin have become difficult for hospital systems across the country to access in recent months, disrupting cancer treatments and leading health care providers and patients to worry about the future. According to the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, platinum drug shortages, including cisplatin and carboplatin, were
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Mashup Score: 4
The polio vaccine was created by Dr. Jonas Salk at a University of Pittsburgh laboratory about 70 years ago, and Pitt is honoring that legacy by opening a public exhibit of Salk’s personal equipment to remind visitors and students of the importance of vaccines to public health. The exhibit spans
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Mashup Score: 2Pitt study shows probiotics boost cancer treatment in mice, could be precursor for human treatment - 1 year(s) ago
A new University of Pittsburgh study shows how good gut health could be beneficial at fighting certain kinds of cancer. A study published Thursday in the science journal Cell showed probiotic bacteria in mice traveled from the animals’ guts and established in tumors, where the bacteria directly stimulate immune cells
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Mashup Score: 0Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end - 1 year(s) ago
LOWRY CITY, Mo. — At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating
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Mashup Score: 0
A recent crest in covid case numbers in Allegheny County was entirely predictable, according to Western Pennsylvania medical experts monitoring the data. Tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classified Allegheny County to be in the “medium” level of covid-19 transmission last week, though officials have confirmed the
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Mashup Score: 2Growths on deer spotted in North Huntingdon are likely papillomavirus, Game Commission says - 1 year(s) ago
Jacquie Kreiger took all the right steps when her son encountered a deer infected by a papillomavirus, state Game Commission officials said. Kreiger became concerned for the animal spotted in her North Huntingdon neighborhood cul-de-sac, when her son sent her a photo of the deer covered in fibromas. “He said
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Mashup Score: 0New covid variant, dubbed 'kraken,' found in region - 1 year(s) ago
A new strain of covid nicknamed the “kraken” for its dominance over previous strains of the virus has been found in the region, health officials said. Officially known as XBB.1.5, the new covid variant has jumped from just 1% of cases to become the dominant strain in the past six
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“I think that it makes sense to go back to our normal system and trust the systems we have in place for our vaccination portfolios.” https://t.co/CfBJY2eP1H