10 affordable US public medical schools that won’t drain your wallet
Rising tuition costs continue to burden medical students, with average debts reaching $200,000 for public school graduates ...
IUP and ACMH sign agreement for Armstrong hospital to educate IUP medical students
IUP and ACMH form a clinical training affiliation agreement. Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Armstrong County Memorial ...
Weirton Medical Center marks official affiliation with WVU Medicine
West Virginia University Health System has grown to include Weirton Medical Center. The Weirton Medical Center, which is about 35 miles from Pittsburgh across the border in the northern West Virginia ...
Antibody therapy provides protection against severe H5N1 avian flu in monkeys
A prophylactic antibody-based immune therapy protects monkeys against severe disease caused by H5N1 avian flu, University of Pittsburgh and NIH Vaccine Research Center researchers report today in ...
IBS affects at least 1 in 10 Americans. Here's what causes it and how it's diagnosed.
There are several theories about the origins of IBS but it's unclear exactly why. Still, there are treatments no matter the ...
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A developmental disability diagnosis can hit hard — but it isn’t a knockout
In a series on people with special needs in Pittsburgh's workforce, this story looks at the anxiety and importance of disability evaluations.
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Diastolic Dysfunction Linked With Stroke, Transient Ischemic Attack, Major Bleeding
The severity of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction affects risk for incident stroke and transient ischemic attack, as well as major bleeding.
Health system opens children’s express care center in Cumberland County
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has opened an urgent care center just for kids. UPMC Children’s Express Care opened last month at 21 Waterford Drive in Silver Spring Township. The new ...
World Tumor Registry Names Dr. Edi Brogi as Inaugural Chair of its Breast Cancer Registry
Established in 2021, the World Tumor Registry is being developed as a collection of registries or individual cancer sites, each to contain thousands of searchable digital microscopic images of cancer ...
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Search underway for missing University of Pittsburgh medical student last seen walking his dog
The search for Luis Espinoza, a University of Pittsburgh medical student, is underway after he was last seen walking his dog.
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Trastuzumab emtansine improves long-term survival in HER2 breast cancer
In patients with high-risk HER2-positive breast cancer, post-surgery, or adjuvant, treatment with trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) reduced the long-term risk of death or invasive disease by 46% and ...