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Pitt’s Healthy Home Laboratory and Vaccine Hub Team Up for a Unique Learning Experience
By Megumi Barclay and Isabel Doshi
Wearing safety goggles covered in Vaseline, Svea Cheng navigated a walker through a cramped kitchen, simulating the experience of an older patient with glaucoma recovering from surgery. Her tasks included making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, walking downstairs to feed her cat, and going outside to water her plants.
Cheng, a...
New Brain Cell Atlas Offers Precision Medicine Framework for Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment
A multidisciplinary group of investigators with the University of Pittsburgh and Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix created an interactive molecular atlas of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in mice. Their research, which may help doctors use precision medicine to target treatments for TBI patients in the future, was published in Neuron.
New Pitt Research Reveals How People at Risk for Suicide Explore Alternative Solutions
A new JAMA Psychiatry study published by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers describes patterns of decision-making in people who attempt suicide, focusing on how they explore alternative options. The study is a step toward developing tools for mental health professionals to tailor interventions to patients’ decision patterns.
“People appear to follow...
Pitt Med Welcomes New Students With White Coat Ceremony
On Sunday, July 28, the Pitt Med community celebrated its newest members at the White Coat ceremony for the 148 MD students entering the Class of 2028 at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. The event was made possible with support from the Dr. Freddie and Hilda Pang Fu Endowment at the University of Pittsburgh.
Fu (1950-2021), a Pitt Med faculty member for more than three decades...
When Tumors Collide: Analysis of Mixed-Type Breast Cancer Reveals Complexity
As part of a breast cancer diagnosis, pathologists take cells from a biopsy and check them under a microscope. Most cancerous cells form roundish clumps, known as no special type, or invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC). In fewer patients, the abnormal cells are more dispersed, growing as spider-web-like tendrils throughout the breast tissue. These are invasive lobular carcinomas (ILC...
Pitt School of Medicine Places in Top Tier for Research in U.S. News Rankings
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is ranked in the top tier for research among medical schools in the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report, released July 23.
The rankings are presented in a new format: Schools are grouped into four tiers based on their percentiles among all the rated schools, rather than listed numerically as they were in...
Pitt Is Building a Molecular Brain Map to Understand Alzheimer’s Disease
Less than a decade ago, when Hansruedi Mathys launched an ambitious project to create an annotated library of all the gene readouts stored within 100 individual brain cells, the task felt daunting.
Now, with technological advances, Mathys successfully mapped out such “transcriptomes” from not just 100, but from 1.3 million brain cortex cells from 48 individuals with and...
Pitt’s Team Behind Team USA
Hadjipanayis Elected AANS/CNS Tumor Section Chair
Costas G. Hadjipanayis, L. Dade Lunsford Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, and director of the UPMC Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery, has been elected chair of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Section on Tumors by the section's executive committee. The Section on Tumors—the largest...
Electronic Prompt for Surgeons May Reduce Breast Cancer Overtreatment
University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel prompt, or “nudge,” embedded in the electronic health record that could reduce overtreatment of older patients with early-stage breast cancer.
In a paper published July 17 in JAMA Surgery, the team found that the rate of a surgical procedure called sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB)...
