Experts Present at the 2014 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 20, 2014 – Faculty from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery were among the experts who presented at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual...
View ArticleLandmark Study Shows Clot Removal Reduces Mortality, Improves Patient Outcome...
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 11, 2015 – Researchers have completed an international, randomized, controlled trial showing that a clot-retrieval procedure, known as endovascular treatment (ET), can dramatically...
View ArticleUPMC CancerCenter First in World to Treat Patient with New Cyberknife MLC...
PITTSBURGH, March 2, 2015 – UPMC CancerCenter last week became the first center in the world to treat a patient with the CyberKnife® M6™ System’s new multileaf collimator, which enables precise shaping...
View ArticlePitt Study Shows for First Time How Huntington’s Disease Protein Could Cause...
PITTSBURGH, May 18, 2014 – Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified for the first time a key molecular mechanism by which the abnormal protein found in Huntington’s...
View ArticleSave the Date: Stroke Update 2014
PITTSBURGH, July 7, 2014 – Stroke Update 2014 will be held at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Friday, September 5, 2014. This conference will cover the identification,...
View ArticleUPMC Residency Programs Rank Nationally
Physician network Doximity, along with U.S. News & World Report, announced the first comprehensive national evaluation of residency programs. In these results, 11 UPMC programs ranked in the top...
View ArticleSecond Annual Update on the Multidisciplinary Management of Pituitary Tumors
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27, 2014 – The Second Annual Update on the Multidisciplinary Management of Pituitary Tumors will be held at UPMC Shadyside in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Friday, April 4, 2014. This conference...
View ArticleSekula Co-Edits MVD Book
Raymond F. Sekula Jr, MD, MBA, associate professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the department’s cranial nerve disorders program, is co-editor of the newly...
View ArticleLunsford Named Cushing Award Recipient
L. Dade Lunsford, MD, Lars Leksell Distinguished Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the UPMC Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery, has been chosen for the...
View ArticleExperts Present at the 2014 Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 20, 2014 – Faculty from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery were among the experts who presented at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual...
View ArticleUPMC Stroke Institute Receives National Recognition for Top Patient Care
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 6 – The UPMC Stroke Institute has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award. The award...
View ArticleMan with Spinal Cord Injury Uses Brain Computer Interface to Move Prosthetic...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 10, 2011 – Seven years after a motorcycle accident damaged his spinal cord and left him paralyzed, 30-year-old Tim Hemmes reached up to touch hands with his girlfriend in a painstaking...
View ArticleNew High Definition Fiber Tracking Reveals Damage Caused by Traumatic Brain...
PITTSBURGH, March 2, 2012 – A powerful new imaging technique called High Definition Fiber Tracking (HDFT) will allow doctors to clearly see for the first time neural connections broken by traumatic...
View ArticleFirst-of-its-kind Study of Peptide Vaccine by Pittsburgh Researchers Shows...
PITTSBURGH, April 2, 2012 – In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) Brain Tumor Program have...
View ArticleParticipants Needed to Test Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke
PITTSBURGH, April 30, 2012 – Millions of stem cells derived from the bone marrow of healthy adult donors have been implanted in the brains of two stroke survivors at UPMC, one of two sites conducting a...
View ArticleChief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of...
PITTSBURGH, June 19, 2012 – The Congress of Neurological Surgeons has announced that Ian F. Pollack, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of...
View ArticleUPMC Clinches Top-Ten Spot on U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll of...
PITTSBURGH – UPMC rose to 10th place in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals – making it the highest-ranked medical center in Pennsylvania. U.S. News & World...
View ArticleUPMC Celebrates 25th Anniversary of First Gamma Knife Procedure to Treat...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 14, 2012 – Twenty-five years and nearly 12,000 patients ago, UPMC neurosurgeons treated a vascular malformation from a patient’s brain using 201 focused beams of ionizing radiation...
View ArticleChild Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Disabilities on the Rise,...
PITTSBURGH, May 5, 2013 – More children have disabilities now than a decade ago, and the greatest increase is among children of higher-income families, according to a Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh...
View ArticlePitt Researchers Find No Increase in Brain Cancer Related to Working at...
PITTSBURGH, May 24, 2013 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health have concluded a 12-year, multi-part study into a perceived increase in brain cancer at the Pratt...
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