UPMC cares for the people of western Pennsylvania and beyond. Just how much care is that? UPMC projected the amount of clinical care that would… Read more
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Faster is Better When it Comes to Sepsis Care
An analysis covering nearly 50,000 patients from 149 New York hospitals is the first to offer scientific evidence that a controversial early sepsis care regulation… Read more
Pitt Experts Challenge Necessity of Commonly Ordered Kidney Test
A commonly ordered test to diagnose a specific type of kidney disease has very little evidence showing diagnostic value, according to a recent review of… Read more
Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Sean Shapiro was a typical, healthy teenager – an athlete, good student and socially active guy in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, where he attended Gateway High School.… Read more
State Task Force Tackles Prostate Cancer in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed Act 66 of 2015 and created the Prostate Cancer Task Force (PCTF) to assess the impact of prostate cancer –… Read more