A psychedelic movie of stressed cells under a microscope sent a team of kidney physiologists and biologists from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon… Read more
Category: research
Pitt Research Points to Policy Tweaks That Could Improve Health Care Among the Most Vulnerable
Medicaid and Medicare are the two largest health insurance programs serving Americans, but they cover care for different populations: Medicaid is an assistance program run… Read more
Majority of Underrepresented Early Career Scientists Experience Psychological Distress; Mentoring Helps Buffer Impact
Social unrest due to systemic racism is causing early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds to experience psychological distress, according to new results from a research… Read more
A UPMC Physician’s Research is Helping Other Clinicians Practice Safe Opioid Prescribing
A new study by University of Pittsburgh researchers offers new tactics to help ensure physicians are prescribing opioids safely and even lower the number of… Read more
Pitt Study Finds Possible New Driver of Parkinson’s Disease
A University of Pittsburgh study, now published in Neurobiology of Disease, was first to show that a particular enzyme involved in many bodily functions, called… Read more