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Pitt Health Sciences Programs Among the Best in U.S. News Rankings
The University of Pittsburgh’s health sciences programs continue to garner high national praise with the April 9 release of U.S. News & World Report 2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings. The publication is delaying the release of its updated medical school rankings, so the list still includes last year’s medical school rankings. Among those, Pitt is No. 7 for psychiatry; No....
Pitt and UPMC Collaboration Leads to Innovative Surgery for People with Radiation-Damaged Bladders
An interdisciplinary team of researchers and physicians from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC on April 3 performed the first in-human adipose-derived stem cell (ADSC) injection into a patient’s bladder for treatment of radiation-induced fibrosis.
Radiation treatment for prostate cancer can cause damage that leads to bladder leakage and...
Pitt Dental Assistant Program Celebrates Its First Graduates and Plans Expansion
The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine congratulates the six students in its inaugural apprenticeship program for dental assistants who graduated on March 22.
The program, funded through a PAsmart grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, was developed to address the shortage of health care professionals and diversify the dentistry...
Pitt Researchers’ Study Raises Concerns About Risks to Prescription Drug Supply
A team led by Pitt researchers has found that supply disruptions increased for many drugs at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and returned to prepandemic levels after May 2020.
The findings of the study, published in JAMA Network Open on April 5, suggest that ongoing policy work is needed to protect U.S. drug supplies from future supply shocks, the researchers wrote....
Pitt to Host 3rd Annual Pharmacoequity Conference
When Fumiko Chino’s young husband died of neuroendocrine carcinoma, she was left with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt for bills that his student insurance didn’t cover. She is now a radiation oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies the impact of financial strain on cancer patients.
She will present the keynote address, "Financial...
Pitt Receives NIH Grants to Study Health Effects of Chemical Exposures Following the East Palestine Train Derailment
Pitt researchers have received a pair of two-year grants from the National Institutes of Health to support studies on the health effects of environmental contamination resulting from the train derailment that spilled hazardous materials into the local communities in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023.
The grants, totaling nearly $1 million, were awarded through a...
Decision Aid Helps Patients Make Informed Decisions About Tubal Sterilization
University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed an easy-to-use web-based decision aid to help pregnant individuals who are considering tubal sterilization to make informed decisions about their reproductive health, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.
“When patients are making decisions about their health and fertility, we want to make certain...
Drug Candidate May “Unmask” Latent HIV-Infected Cells, Mark Them for Destruction
Pitt School of Medicine scientists have identified drug candidates that show promise to reverse the ability of HIV to escape detection by the immune system.
The discovery reveals a potential path to eliminate the viral reservoir that cannot be cleared with existing antiretroviral drugs.
“HIV establishes a reservoir of infected cells that lay dormant even in the...
