Advance care planning is an important part of health and wellness and can be one of the ways in which we can take care of… Read more
Year: 2015
No Place for Politics; Our Job Is Care
Health care in western Pennsylvania has become a political issue. And the governor and his advisors have made it so. It was disappointing on many… Read more
Defeating Polio
On April 12, 1955, headlines trumpeted the news that Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh had successfully developed a vaccine… Read more
Western Pa.’s Emerging Latino Population Faces Health Care Barriers
Despite the absence of a traditional barrio or apparent Latino culture, 25,000 Latinos currently live in Allegheny County, up from less than 8,000 in 1990…. Read more
UPMC Radiation Oncologists: Changing Standards of Care, Improving Costs for Cancer Patients
It is unusual for one academic institution to have more than a single article published simultaneously in a high-impact research journal, so even the authors… Read more