Pennsylvania fans of basketball player Kobe Bryant might have read that his wife, Vanessa Bryant, filed a lawsuit against the company that owned the helicopter he died in. The crash, which happened in January, killed the pilot and all eight passengers aboard,...
Month: April 2020
Gout patients are frequently misdiagnosed
Many people in Pennsylvania suffer from gout, one type of inflammatory arthritis that is caused by higher-than-normal levels of uric acid in the body. Gout is associated with severe joint pain, which often emerges late at night or during sleep. However, in order for...
Don’t let catastrophic injuries dictate your life
There’s no doubt that a car accident can completely change your life. Sometimes these wrecks cause nothing more than headaches as individuals recover from minor injuries and try to figure out how to deal with the loss of their vehicle, but in other instances these...
Teens with a peer passenger run higher risk for a crash
Parents throughout western Pennsylvania should beware the next time their teen drives a friend around or gets in the car of a friend. Research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has found that teens raise their risk for a car crash by 44% with the addition of...
POTS often misdiagnosed as psychiatric disorder
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome affects an estimated 1 to 3 million people across the U.S. with 80% of the patients being women, especially women under 35. POTS is a disorder that affects the autonomic nervous system, the part that controls involuntary...