Brain Abnormalities Found in Concussion Patients Similar to those in...
PITTSBURGH, June 18, 2013 – The distribution of white matter brain abnormalities in some patients after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) closely resembles that found in early Alzheimer’s, according...
View ArticleUPMC Again Earns Top-10 Spot on U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll of...
PITTSBURGH, July 16, 2013 – UPMC clinches the 10th place in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals for the second year in a row – again making it the...
View ArticleChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC & Pitt Public Health Researchers...
PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2013 – Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers have been selected by the National Institutes of Health...
View ArticleChief of Pediatric Neurosurgery Named Chairman of Scholarly Journal
Ian F. Pollack, MD, chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, was recently named chairman of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurosurgery:...
View ArticleUPMC Physicians Offer Lectures Throughout the Region
UPMC has assembled a group of physician leaders from UPMC Passavant who will be available to make informal, informational presentations to small groups as well as larger audiences in western...
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 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 ArticlePitt Shares in $17 Million Federal Grant to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30, 2014 – University of Pittsburgh researchers are key players in a national “dream team” that seeks to identify the best biological and imaging markers of traumatic brain injury...
View ArticleIn a First, Pitt-UPMC Team Help Paralyzed Man Feel Again Through a...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 13, 2016 – Imagine being in an accident that leaves you unable to feel any sensation in your arms and fingers. Now imagine regaining that sensation, a decade later, through a...
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