Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is an inherited disorder strongly linked to mutations in genes PKD1 and PKD2 that causes development of fluid-filled cysts in kidneys… Read more
Category: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Children’s, Pitt Partner on Cardiac Arrest Early Detection System
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have announced a research partnership to develop a software analytics tool… Read more
Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease in its Earliest Stages
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in collaboration with the University of Chile and the International Center for Biomedicine have developed a… Read more
2016’s Top 3 in Infectious Disease
We asked Dr. John W. Mellors, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, what he believes were the… Read more
Teen Girls in Pittsburgh Get Less Physical Activity than the National Average
Teen girls in Pittsburgh lag far behind the expected levels of physical activity for U.S. adolescent females, according to a new analysis based on a… Read more