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
Category: COVID-19
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
Scheduling COVID-19 Vaccines and Screening Mammography
About 10% of participants in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine approval trials reported swelling in the lymph nodes under their arm after… Read more
Pitt Launches New Study to Prevent Depression in Older Bereaved Spouses
As part of a $2.2 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, psychiatry researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine… Read more