October is Disability Awareness month, and this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. With 1 in 4 U.S. adults living… Read more
October 2020
UPMC Physicians Evaluate Updated Heart Transplant Allocation Policy
A 2018 change in the policy to allocate hearts for transplantation appears to have come with a trade-off, UPMC physicians reveal today in a new… Read more
Achieving COVID-19 herd immunity through infection is dangerous, deadly and might not even work
White House advisers have made the case recently for a “natural” approach to herd immunity as a way to reduce the need for public health… Read more
Pitt Study Shows How HIV and Cancer Drugs Accelerate Cellular Aging
HIV patients tend to show premature signs of aging. Cancer, cognitive diseases, osteoporosis – these maladies all come before their time for people living with… Read more
All the Right Notes: UPMC Music Therapists Connect Patients to Treatment with a Beat
Ann Jackovich was working recently with a patient at UPMC McKeesport who was diagnosed with schizophrenia; her condition had her pacing, fidgeting, acting out. There… Read more