Americans all over the country are feeling stress and anxiety related to the 2020 Presidential election, and social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic can… Read more
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UPMC in Italy Receives U.S Government Funding to Provide Telemedicine Care for Frail Patients
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded UPMC in Italy $1.8 million to implement a telemedicine platform in response to the COVID-19… Read more
Helping Patients with Disabilities During Pandemic and Beyond
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
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