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Last month, a Palo Alto high school saw its fourth student suicide since May. Questions loom large: Why did this cluster of suicides happen, and how can the cycle be stopped? Public health officials and scientists use the term "suicide contagion" to describe the spread of suicidal thoughts among a group of people that results in such copycat acts.

Every Veterans Day presents an opportunity to commemorate those who served in some faraway place long ago, many of whom paid that ultimate sacrifice.

Two Western Pennsylvania women were among the victims in Thursday's shooting rampage in Fort Hood, including a 55-year-old grandmother who was one of 13 people who died in the attack.

A woman from Pittsburgh is reportedly among the 13 people killed during the shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas.

Androgen receptor in breast cancer: expression in estrogen receptor-positive tumors and in estrogen receptor-negative tumors with apocrine differentiation 1Department of Pathology, Magee-Women's Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2Department of Radiation Oncology, Magee-Women's Hospital of University of ...

The argument for closing the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's hospital in Braddock supposedly is that the community of Braddock, in decline for so long, simply could no longer support the medical facility that UPMC "rescued" in 1996.

By Brad Bumsted and Mike Wereschagin , TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, November 5, 2009 Last updated: 8:22 am While Democrats and Republicans sought to spin the results of Tuesday's elections in their favor, political observers say the results of races across Pennsylvania and the country show an electorate fed up with the status quo.

An entrenched stalemate in the Capitol may mean students at major Pennsylvania universities will soon see higher second-semester tuition bills.

Luke Ravenstahl celebrates his re-election as mayor of Pittsbugh with his wife, Erin, at left, and his supporters at Mullen's Bar and Grill on the North Side last night.

Pittsburgh police are urging people to be cautious after an assault and two robberies Monday night in Oakland.

Jurors rejected claims by Terrell Yarbrough that he acted only as a lookout during the 1999 slayings of two Franciscan University students and convicted him yesterday of two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy.

Using an unconventional approach that they designed, University of Pittsburgh drug discoverers and their collaborators at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have identified compounds that hold promise for treating leishmaniasis, a parasitic infection that many consider one of the world's most overlooked diseases.

A drug currently under development by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine may help bone fractures heal more quickly after radiation exposure, according to a study by Pitt researchers.

Zeolites are a fine lattice, a molecular sieve that can let molecules of a certain size pass while blocking others.

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg received an award and $50,000 for the school today in recognition of its alcohol-education programs.

Nov. 1--Franklin Toker wanted his readers to feel the heartbeats of the Pittsburgh neighborhoods he loves.

Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 7:38 a.m. Three counties in South Carolina are among those lagging behind in the economic recovery.

Steven Nicola, chief financial officer of Matthews International Corp., and Joseph Bartolacci, president and CEO, stand with some of the bronze plaques made with their digital technology.

The authority hired S.B. Friedman & Co. for up to $32,500 as counsel for a $10 million tax credit plan for the development.

Not all of Pittsburgh's historic houses are Colonial, Federal or Second Empire. The Robert and Cecilia Frank house, the avant garde house by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer on Woodland Road in Shadyside, is undergoing preservation work.