http://www.post-gazette.com/ Health, Science, Environment, Medicare news en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:39:31 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085664-100.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml A Marshall University program that offers children free dental care at school says more than 43 percent of the children it saw last year had untreated dental decay. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:59:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085663-113.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Experts are set to testify in a federal lawsuit in Chicago, where five states -- including Pennsylvania -- are asking a judge to close Illinois shipping locks to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:56:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085641-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml The research has been going on for more than 10 years. Studies number in the hundreds. Millions of dollars have been spent. But government health officials still cannot decide whether the chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, a component of some plastics, is safe. The substance lines most food and drink cans, and is used to make hard, clear plastic bottles, containers and countless other products. Nearly everyone is exposed to it. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085642-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml Campers know the pesky feeling of ants crawling up and down their arms and legs. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085561-455.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml HARRISBURG -- Last year, the insects called brown marmorated stink bugs were a nuisance. This year, they are a serious threat to fruit orchards, and experts are not sure how destructive they might become. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085407-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085339-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml SACRAMENTO -- Dr. Alan Shatzel's pager beeped at 9 on a Saturday morning. A man had suffered a stroke, and someone had to decide, quickly, whether to give him an anticlotting drug that could mean the difference between life and death. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085184-115.stm?cmpid=healthscience.xml "I just can't talk about it anymore. I have been going crazy with media calls about bedbugs," said Dr. Michael Potter, who nonetheless bristled slightly at the suggestion that people were overreacting a tad to a bug that doesn't spread disease -- just stress, sleeplessness and stigma. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400