Health insurance giant Cigna is expanding online access to primary care physicians via its telehealth partner MDLive for the insurer’s employer-sponsored plan clients. The move is significant because it greatly expands the use of telehealth and “virtual access” to doctors from the already existing behavioral health and urgent care services MDLive offers Cigna employer-sponsored health […]

NEW YORK – The methylation profiles of circulating tumor DNA may help diagnose colorectal cancer as well as predict patient prognosis, findings that may form the basis of a new cancer test. Early detection of colorectal cancer helps improve patients’ survival, but colonoscopy-based screening is invasive, time-consuming, and expensive, all of which may adversely influence […]

Pittsburgh’s economy depends as never before on the success of our tech industry. Yet the tech sector is growing and changing in ways that are hard to predict. Ten years ago, self-driving cars seemed like some future sci-fi. Now, Pittsburgh is one of the world’s major engineering hubs for this technology and it continues to […]