Pitt ophthalmologists provided free vision care at an October clinic
Almost 300 pairs of glasses were ordered, and serious vision issues were identified in 100 patients.
Valerie Fulmer earns Educator of the Year Award
Fulmer is director of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Standardized Patient Program.
Pitt researchers are part of an international team awarded $1 million Magee Prize
The team, led by Pamela Moalli, is working to develop materials to repair tissue loss in people with compromised vaginal structure and function.
A new way to stop diseases from spreading in hospitals
How clinicians stop infectious disease transmission in hospitals hasn’t changed in more than a century. Pitt researchers are using AI and genome sequencing to change that.
Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?
An interdisciplinary Pitt team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.
11 Pitt veterans who made a major impact
Learn about how these military greats, from the author of the GI Bill of Rights to a former Army Surgeon General, shaped the world — and how Pitt shaped them.
Tracey Conti elected as new chair of Department of Family Medicine
Conti will foster collaborative relationships across and beyond Pitt and UPMC, focusing on developing a community-based strategy for primary care in the region.
A Pitt scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears
The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.
Plastic surgery professors step into entrepreneurship
Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.
An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies
Some at-risk patients didn’t know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, Pitt researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.

