Earlier this year UPMC took legal action against Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s unprecedented and ill-founded attack on the health system’s tax-exempt status. Today, UPMC filed an… Read more
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First-Of-Its-Kind Study Finds Youth Football Players Have Low Concussion Risk
Rick Young watched his 9-year-old son endure a helmet-to-helmet collision and a concussion in a youth football game three years ago. It motivated the father… Read more
How Neuroimaging is Helping Improve Addiction Treatment
This month’s issue of Psychology of Addictive Behaviorstakes on the important topic of how brain imaging research can help to improve psychotherapy for addictive behaviors.
Altruistic Donor Sets off Live-Donor Kidney Transplant Chain
Video by Timothy Betler Because of one person’s decision to donate a kidney to a stranger, three others received the kidney they were hoping… Read more
National Cancer Survivors Day: Dispelling Disease Myths
Sunday marks National Cancer Survivors Day, a day set aside to celebrate those who have survived cancer and offer support to those who have been… Read more