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St. Clair Hospital offering non-invasive prostate treatment

A surgeon at St. Clair Hospital in Mt. Lebanon recently performed the first HIFU procedure for prostate cancer at St. Clair using advanced new ultrasound technology. This makes St. Clair the first health-care system in the Pittsburgh region to offer the technology. HIFU stands for ...

Chilled to the bone – and the joints: cold weather’s impact on arthritis

For decades, countless numbers of people with arthritis have claimed they know how cold the weather is based on pain in their joints. And while there is limited scientific evidence to support that notion, doctors have stood by their patients’ belief. “ThereĢƵ not a ton of hardcore ...

‘What fear does to a small town’

Through his work as an immigration lawyer, Joseph Murphy has seen a pattern emerging: provoke, publish, distribute. “The intimidation is the product. The video is just the delivery mechanism,” he said, referring to a widely-circulated video of a white man using racial slurs toward a ...

Charleroi police arrest man accused of assault

Charleroi Regional Police Department arrested a man over the weekend after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. Isaiah James Lee Banks, 29, of New Kensington, faces a felony charge of strangulation, and misdemeanors of simple assault and endangering the welfare of children. According ...

Emergency declarations create flexibility, future funding possibilities

Several municipalities across Fayette and Washington counties declared a state of emergency ahead of SundayĢƵ snowstorm and the ongoing cold snap. Local administrators said the declarations allowed them to line up extra workers and suppliers faster, and potentially enable them to get ...

Region sees most accumulation in single day since ‘Snowmageddon’

Nearly a foot of snow fell across southwestern Pennsylvania throughout the day Sunday, making it the most accumulation over a single day in nearly 16 years. The National Weather Service measured 11.2 inches of snow at Pittsburgh International Airport – making it the 21st snowiest day on ...