New Pitt Center to Advance Research on Technology, Media and Health
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2014 – Would celebratory music and a thousand “points” per pill encourage a patient with heart disease to take her medication? If social media friends congratulate an overweight...
View ArticleOlder Age at Onset of Type 1 Diabetes Associated with Lower Brain...
PITTSBURGH, July 14, 2015 – People diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in later childhood have weaker brain connectivity in midlife compared to those who were diagnosed at earlier ages according to a...
View ArticleCenter for Military Medicine Research Established at University of Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH, June 21, 2012 – Promoting research to advance medicine for the military is the focus of a newly established center at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences. The...
View ArticlePaul Rockar, Jr., Named President of the American Physical Therapy Association
UPMC Center for Rehab Services (CRS) CEO Paul Rockar, Jr., PT, DPT, MS, was elected President of the American Physical Therapy Association at its June convention in Tampa, Fla. He previously served as...
View ArticleGenomics Innovator Dietrich Stephan Named Chair of Pitt Public Health...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18, 2013 – Dietrich A. Stephan, Ph.D., has been named chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Dr. Stephan also will...
View ArticlePitt, UPMC Receive Awards to Create Clinical Data Research Network, Conduct...
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 7, 2014 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences and UPMC and their collaborators at other academic centers have received three new awards from the...
View ArticleOlder Age at Onset of Type 1 Diabetes Associated with Lower Brain...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2014 – Children and adolescents older than age 8 at the onset of type 1 diabetes had weaker brain connectivity when tested later in life relative to those who had earlier ages...
View ArticleIntegrating Mental Health Services in Pediatric Practices Feasible,...
PITTSBURGH, March 24, 2014 – Brief behavioral and mental health programs for children can be effectively provided within pediatric practices as an alternative to being referred to a community...
View ArticlePitt Researchers Find Portable, Low-Cost Optical Imaging Tool Useful in...
PITTSBURGH, April 2, 2014 – Two separate projects, spearheaded by University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences researchers and published recently in scientific journals, represented...
View ArticlePitt, UPMC to Serve as the First U.S. Host of Global Health Conference
PITTSBURGH, April 22, 2014 – The biennial All Together Better Health conference will hold its first U.S. meeting in Pittsburgh this June to highlight the latest research on interprofessionalism and...
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