JOURNALISM
AT THE INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES
PARIS—Profits at pharmaceutical companies have been declining or showing little growth for the last year as austerity measures across Europe lead to cuts in health care spending. Some analysts…
Most students going into medicine imagine that they will have daily contact with their patients; but the reality is that only a minority will end up as primary care physicians,causing what some experts say could be a critical shortage in the United States, where there are long waits in both doctors’ offices and emergency rooms…
PARIS—In the early 1900s, a course of study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine might have meant traveling to a hut in Italy for several months to study the causes of malaria. Or it might have included sailing…
Two decades ago, a woman having a difficult birth in a Ugandan village would have had few options to get life-saving treatment if there was not a nearby health clinic. But today, mobile technology can help her get advice from a doctor in Kampala over the telephone, alert a community health worker about her situation, or even get her to a hospital.
PARIS — “Le Mur,” or “The Wall,” a small documentary film about autism released online last year, might normally not have attracted much attention. But an effort by French psychoanalysts to keep it from public eyes has helped to make it into a minor cause and shone a spotlight on the way children in France are treated for mental health problems…
AT THE PITTSBURGH BUSINESS TIMES
Pop artist Burton Morris is known for his bright, vibrant paintings of everyday objects like coffee cups and hearts, as well as his work with Absolut Vodka, the Oscars and 1990s TV hit “Friends.” Influenced by Andy Warhol and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Mellon graduate talks about how Pittsburgh keeps him grounded, how cancer impacted his art and what it’s like to rub elbows with the rich and famous.
For Christina Koshzow and the team at Branding Brand, success is all about the ability to change and be adaptable.
And it’s this willingness to see what’s on the horizon and innovate that has made the mobile company the fast-growing organization it is today.
Along the way, Koshzow and her co-founders discovered some startup secrets.
“So many people start with a business plan, and that’s their growth plan,” Koshzow said. “You can’t be afraid of change. We were willing to change and as long as you have the right thing, it’s easy to do that.”
Across the country, robotic technologies are playing a larger role in medicine, particularly when it comes to surgery, according to surgeons who specialize in robotics at UPMC.
Interest in robotic surgery began over a decade ago, said Dr. Herbert Zeh, chief of the division of gastrointestinal surgical oncology at UPMC...
EQT corp. said it is monitoring other companies’ work in the dry-gas portion of the Utica Shale before committing resources to dry-gas holdings in Ohio and West Virginia. EQT CEO David Porges took questions…
Sharpsburg-based third-party vendor was an unknowing point of entry for hackers into retail giant Target's system. Experts say safer credit cards and increased data encryption are needed across the payment industry in light of news that a…
If the executives behind the Web-connected TV streaming service Aereo could move mountains, their product likely would have arrived in Pittsburgh months ago.
While topographical obstacles have made entry into the market a tougher-than-anticipated task, “Yinz have a lot of mountains,” quipped Chet Kanojia, the company’s founder and CEO…
