Health and Wellness

Colin E. Vize says passive sensing could give clinicians access to more (and more reliable) data about their patients’ lives.

The Pitt Medicine professor will work with Carnegie Mellon University scientists on the 21-month DARPA investigation.

Erin and Bill Bedillion’s daughter needs a bone marrow donor. The Pitt alums are determined to find one — for her and all the other kids who are waiting for a match.

Amir Alavi and Alan Wells are building a handheld device that can report viral load at the press of a button, enabling care in resource-limited or decentralized settings.

New research from the lab of Dan Kaplan, a professor in Pitt’s Department of Dermatology, not only helps to resolve that conundrum but also explains why we itch at all.

The MD/PhD student has already designed a medical device, earned a patent and launched a company — but it’s what she hasn’t yet accomplished that keeps her going.

Researchers in Pitt’s Division of Infectious Diseases identified how a common amino acid triggers hypervirulence in a highly infectious strain of bacteria.

The Justin Reid Ehrenwerth Emerging Scholar Award will allow local students from under-resourced high schools to attend Pitt’s Public Health Science Academy.

Eligible students can earn both a bachelor’s and Doctor of Chiropractic degree in just seven years through guaranteed admission to Northeast College of Health Sciences.

The technology tested and developed in Pitt’s Healthy Home Lab is making it safer for older adults to age in place.