Health and Wellness
Nearly 30,000 vaccines and counting
One year after Pitt acquired its vaccine supply, volunteers, staff and interns share the lessons they’ve learned.
Could your neighborhood influence the health of your brain?
A $9.6 million grant will help Pitt and RAND researchers measure the link between structural racism and cognitive decline in two Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
Alejandro Hoberman earns the 2022 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award
Hoberman is the first person ever to receive this award from the Clinical Research Forum on two separate occasions.
ICYMI: Indoor masking will be optional starting March 28
Effective Monday, March 28, indoor masking will be optional except for in health care settings and on-campus shuttles.
See photos from Match Day 2022
On March 18, fourth-year medical students learned where they’re headed for the next stop in their training.
Nursing’s Lora Burke named an expert in obesity
Burke’s studies have included testing various diet approaches to weight loss and learning how people self-monitor their dietary intake.
Researchers will mimic daycare settings to study flu transmission
Associate Professor Seema Lakdawala is leading a subproject on an $8.8 million grant.
An NBA player taught Pitt students how to be better speech therapists
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist spoke with a speech-language pathology class, part of a panel of speakers who shared how stuttering affected their lives.
The Pittsburgh Foundation grants $1.3 million to Pitt health sciences researchers
Ten grants will fund studies of addiction prevention, sleep and teen substance use, cranial surgery and rheumatoid arthritis.
After living near Chernobyl, these Pitt researchers set their eyes on thyroid cancer
Yuri Nikiforov and Marina Nikiforova saw the effects of thyroid cancer on children in Belarus. Now, their test for the disease has eliminated thousands of unneeded surgeries.