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Pitt Studies Highlight Access to Treatment in a Health Affairs Special Issue on Opioid Use Disorder

September 8, 2025

Caption: Jeanine Buchanich, vice dean and associate professor, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and J. Travis Donahoe, assistant professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. Photos courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh.  

The Dawn of BioForge

September 8, 2025

Photo credit: Heidi Ward

“We are literally at the dawn of precision biological medicine, which is going to change the way we not only treat certain diseases and what kind of therapeutics we come up with, but is going to demand a completely different approach to the manufacturing and the associated tools,” Ken Gabriel, CEO of BioForge, explained during a University of Pittsburgh...

Fall Flu Shots Available on Campus

September 4, 2025

Between classes and activities, nobody has time to be stuck at home with the flu this fall.  

The student health fee covers flu shots for students, who can get them through Student Health Services or the Pitt Vaccination and Health Connection Hub. The Hub also provides the shots to faculty members, staff and the public, including children 5 and older. 

Fall flu...

A Healthy Dose of Mixed Reality

August 29, 2025

School of Pharmacy Associate Professor Pamela Smithburger demos the Anatomage Table for students in the Emerging Technology Lab in the Health Sciences Library on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Photography by Rayni Shiring)

 

Reading in a textbook that a wrong medication dose or a missed lab result can trigger cardiac arrest is one thing. It's another to actually see the harm...

New Health Sciences Course Offerings This Fall

August 28, 2025

The following are some of the fresh options in Pitt Health Sciences introduced this fall, as schools and programs across the University launch new courses, expand existing initiatives and offer more opportunities for students to customize their academic journey.

Pitt Study Finds No Significant Link Between ECAC and Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers

August 22, 2025

By Kat Procyk  

Extracranial carotid artery calcification (ECAC) is a known risk factor for the development of both cardiovascular diseases and neurological conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. 

However, the relationship between ECAC and amyloid beta (Aβ), protein clumps that can pile together in the brain and may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease,...

Pitt Scientist Kevin McCarthy to Present Methods to Improve Collective Virus Immunity

August 18, 2025

By Kat Procyk 

Photography by Joshua Franzos

Mutations in some viruses, like influenza or SARS-CoV-2, can evade collective immunity, meaning they can still infect populations even when there’s a high immunity level to previous versions of that virus.   

Military Honors Pitt Researchers for Work on Cold-Stored Platelets in Trauma

August 18, 2025

Photo caption: From left- Stephen Ferrara, Jason Sperry, Francis Guyette, and Stephen Wisniewski

Pitt researchers on the Linking Investigations in Trauma and Emergency Services (LITES) Network team received an award for outstanding research at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida., on Aug. 4. 

Stephen Ferrara, acting assistant secretary...