Forecasting flu season can be as tricky as predicting a horse race. You look for the most likely candidate to dominate the race, and that’s… Read more
August 2014
Pittsburgh’s 1st Brain Cancer Awareness 5k to Benefit UPCI
About 23,000 people are diagnosed each year with brain cancer in the U.S. And about 14,000 people will die of the disease each year. Despite… Read more
In the News: Baseball, Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer
Earlier this year, baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn died of salivary cancer at age 54, something he had attributed to his use of smokeless… Read more
Sciencepalooza 2014 Combines Experiments and Fun
: Pitt’s student union opened its doors last month to roughly 500 day campers from Pittsburgh area YMCAs and YWCAs for “Sciencepalooza 2014.” Seventy students… Read more
Pitt Scientist Remembers Another African Outbreak
University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research scientist Amy Hartman, Ph.D., has a pretty good idea what the 50 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and… Read more