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On any given day inside Mercy San Juan Medical Center's neuro-intensive care unit, a 5-foot-6-inch-tall robot with a computer screen can be seen roaming the halls.

The face of Dr. Alan Shatzel, a neurologist, smiles in the monitor of a new medical robot, RP-VITA , as it rolls along in Mercy San Juan Medical Center's neuro-intensive care unit.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it is charging City Rescue Mission of New Castle and one of its employees with refusing to accept a blind man and his guide dog at a homeless shelter in New Castle, PA.

NCSL Webinars allow attendees to participate in meetings taking place around the world from the comfort of their desk.

The goals of this program are to improve awareness of facet-mediated pain and pediatric back pain and provide information about surgery for cervical spine disease and spinal neoplasms.

Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay around $1m in taxes over the past decade.

Last year Google announced something extraordinary: it was working on a wearable computer.

Google Now, which is built into the Android operating system, is now available on iOS as well, so iPhone and iPad users will be able to use the Siri-like personal assistant from Google.

Mary Eno, MD, Chief of Addiction Medicine, Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center, Harbor City, CA, presented on Understanding Addiction, and Nathan A. Painter, PharmD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, presented on Abuse of Prescription Drugs.

A South Florida TV news station is reporting that over the last few months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been raiding local smartphone repair shops and seizing counterfeit Apple parts.

Leaked Doc Shows Foursquare's Big Plans for Your Check-in Data In May, Foursquare will introduce the first of two new ad types for advertisers hungry to capitalize on data the company has collected from 30 million users who have checked in more than 3.5 billion times, according to a leaked pitch deck.

Watch out Siri, Google's own personal assistant service is coming to your home town.

In a profession where moments can often mean the difference between life and death, finding efficiencies as a firefighter is crucial.

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Students in the Penn State DuBois Occupational Therapy Assistant Program presented the work and research they've completed over the past year during an exhibition this week.

The New Pittsburgh Courier app is available free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play.

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