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Stop Trying to Reach Your Target Audience the Old-Fashioned Passive Way

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

Everyone is talking about the influence of the web, particularly social media. Now, for the first time, you can be ...

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Design for Health: How Your Environment Can Affect Your Well-Being

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

By DeAnna Radaj, Bante Design LLC Having problems losing weight even though you are carefully counting every calorie?  Can’t sleep ...

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LECOM Medical Fitness and Wellness Center Fitness Offers Cardiac Fitness Program

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

For most people with heart disease or cardiovascular risk factors, exercise should be an important part of maintaining health and ...

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Knowing Your Family’s Colon Cancer History Could Save Your Life

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

The month of March is National Colon Cancer Awareness month.  The American Cancer Society recognizes that the most effective way ...

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Diabetes Awareness & Prevention Day to be Held at Clarion Community Medicine

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

In recognition of Diabetes Awareness Month, Diabetes Awareness and Prevention Day will be held at Clarion Community Medicine–UPMC on Wednesday, ...

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Artwork for Health

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

By DeAnna Radaj As we prepare for our winter hibernation, at least us in the Northern climates, we start to ...

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Issue 2 of Hospital News Now Online

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

Our latest issue is now online! Be sure to check it out and forward it onto your friends and colleagues. Download ...

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New PHC4 Report on Healthcare-Associated Infections Focuses on Readmissions

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

Among Pennsylvania patients who acquired a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in 2010, 31.3 percent were readmitted within 30 days for an ...

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Little Sisters of the Poor Named to US News & World Report Honor Roll

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

The Little Sisters of the Poor, who are celebrating their 140th year of serving Pittsburgh, received another reason to celebrate ...

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Allegheny General Hospital Cardiac Surgeons Perform Region’s First SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Implantation

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Pittsburgh Healthcare Report

Groundbreaking Technology Helps Critically Ill Patient Recover While Awaiting a Donor Heart Cardiothoracic surgeons at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) have ...