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New COVID Vaccines Available at the Hub
The new 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccines will be available at Pitt’s Vaccination and Health Connection Hub starting Monday afternoon, Sept. 16, 2024.
“The recent summer surge of COVID-19 has created concern about how best to prepare for the upcoming fall and winter seasons,” said Joe Suyama, the Hub’s medical director and professor of emergency medicine and vice chair for career...
Pitt Med Students Organize Story Slam
Part of understanding a patient’s condition is taking a history—hearing about a person’s life and really listening.
That’s why second-year medical students Elise Barberis, Eugene Kim, Maya Singh and Ivy Yip are passionate about making storytelling part of the medical school experience.
“It can only make us better clinicians,” Kim said.
They are organizing a Story...
Pitt Startup Korion Health Wins Hult Prize
Korion Health, a startup led by Anna Li, an MD/PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, won the $1 million Hult Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious social entrepreneurship competitions, on Sept. 6.
The company is developing an electronic stethoscope that allows patients to monitor their health at home and relay the information to their...
Pitt Study Identifies Contributor to Atherosclerosis
Increased synthesis of mitochondrial DNA plays a crucial role in driving inflammation and atherosclerosis, suggests a new University of Pittsburgh study in Nature Communications.
Meredith Hughes Chosen for New State Health Policy Fellowship
Meredith Hughes, assistant professor of health policy and management, School of Public Health, is one of three inaugural fellows in the pilot State Health Policy Fellowship (SHPF) program, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced.
Hughes, who has been at the University of Pittsburgh since 2021, will focus on aging policy and implementation of the new “Aging Our...
Michalopoulos Receives 2024 AASLD Distinguished Achievement Award
George K. Michalopoulos, Distinguished Professor of Pathology, School of Medicine, has been selected to receive the 2024 American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Distinguished Achievement Award.
The award honors Michalopoulos’s sustained scientific contributions to the field of liver disease and the scientific foundations of hepatology and recognizes...
New Study Supports Annual Breast Cancer Screening for Women Over 40
Margarita Zuley, professor of radiology, Division of Breast Imaging, School of Medicine and chief of Breast Imaging at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
Women diagnosed with breast cancer who had regular screening mammograms every year were less likely to have late-stage cancer and had higher overall survival than those who received screening every other year or less often,...
Wounds Are Common Among People Who Use Illicit Opioids, but Proper Wound Care Is Hard To Find
Left to right: Margaret Shang, Raagini Jawa, Ilana Hull
