A full year has passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. UPMC’s senior medical director and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UPMC… Read more
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New Technology Significantly Improves Lung Cancer Surgery
Researchers at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are using groundbreaking tumor-highlighting technology to better visualize lung cancer tissue—giving surgeons a significantly… Read more
6 COVID-19 Treatments Helping Patients Survive
A year ago, when U.S. health authorities issued their first warning that COVID-19 would cause severe “disruption to everyday life,” doctors had no effective treatments… Read more
FDA Authorizes Third COVID-19 Vaccine
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. The single-dose immunization is the third COVID-19 vaccine… Read more
UPMC Hamot Unveils New Patient Care Tower
February 2 was a historic day at UPMC Hamot, as patients from the current trauma-neuro intensive care unit (TNICU) and cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU)… Read more