A New Frontier: The Future of Transplantation at UPMC
As the national transplant waiting list continues to grow, pioneering scientists at UPMC are developing novel approaches to help more patients live longer, fuller lives. In doing so, they are setting...
View ArticleOverheard @ SXSW: Transforming Ideas into New Technologies
One of only a few health care companies at South by Southwest, UPMC demonstrated how we’re pushing change by putting innovation front and center. We’re committed to transforming new ideas into the...
View ArticleWhat Is UPMC Next?
About UPMC UPMC is working to transform not just health care — but health as we know it. We are uncommon: bringing breakthroughs in academic medicine at speed to a health system that stretches across...
View ArticleHow Can Videogaming Help Trauma Patients?
In emergency medicine, triage is square one. Every patient management decision begins with an assessment of urgency and the prioritization of patients’ needs. If a health care provider in the emergency...
View ArticleParkinson’s Disease: A Surprising Discovery
Isolating a problem’s cause means one can more easily develop treatments to address it – that’s pretty straightforward. So, it’s not surprising that a pharmaceutical therapy that targets a gene...
View ArticleTransforming Vision: Breakthroughs in Ophthalmology
A lifelong passion to help people suffering from diseases of the eye led José-Alain Sahel, MD, to UPMC in western Pennsylvania, where he is launching a new generation of innovations in therapies and...
View ArticleOverheard @LIGHT: Insight into the Challenges and Opportunities Confronting...
At the 2018 Leaders In Global Health and Technology Forum, the best and the brightest came together to debate the challenges and opportunities confronting health care. Listen to what the experts are...
View ArticleWhy Health Literacy Matters
Patients don’t always understand what doctors and other health care providers tell them — and that’s a problem. “As physicians, we tend to use a lot of jargon when we talk to patients,” says Jared...
View ArticleUPMC’s Pioneering Thyroid Cancer Test Is Now Covered by Medicare
Testing for thyroid cancer just got easier and less costly for millions of people across the country, thanks to technology developed by UPMC. The ThyroSeq® Genomic Classifier was recently approved for...
View ArticleA Powerful Combo for Pancreatic Surgery Patients
A recent UPMC research study suggests that combining robotic surgery and enhanced recovery protocols can result in shorter hospital stays for patients who undergo one of medicine’s most complex...
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