UPMC is Only Health System Named ‘Most Wired’ for 13 Consecutive Years
PITTSBURGH, July 11, 2011 – For the 13th consecutive year, UPMC has been named one of the 100 “Most Wired” health systems in the country, the only organization to earn that distinction, according to...
View ArticleGenome Variation in Prostate Tumors and Blood Samples Could Help Predict...
PITTSBURGH, May 8, 2012 – The detection of certain gene abnormalities in the blood or tumor tissue of prostate cancer patients can predict the likelihood of relapse, according to researchers at the...
View ArticleRobotic-Assisted Prostate Cancer Surgery Drives Up Costs, Despite Little...
PITTSBURGH, May 23, 2012 – In one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the cost of robotic-assisted, laparoscopic surgery for prostate cancer, researchers at UPMC found that this now-dominant...
View ArticleChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Again Named One of the Nation’s...
PITTSBURGH, June 5 – Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has been named to U.S. News & World Report’s 2012-13 Honor Roll of Best Children’s Hospitals, one of only 12 hospitals in the nation...
View Article‘Orthopedics This Week’ Announces Top 19 US Sports Medicine Specialists
Orthopedics This Week announced their list of the Top US Sports Medicine Doctors. “According to those in-the-know, there are 19 high echelon sports medicine specialists in the U.S. who are...
View ArticleChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Study Reveals Success Rate of...
PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2013 – Blockage between the kidney and the ureter in infants can be successfully repaired with minimally invasive surgical approaches, according to a Children’s Hospital of...
View ArticleTimothy Averch, MD, Named 2014-2015 Gallagher Health Policy Scholar By AUA
The American Urological Association (AUA) named Timothy D. Averch, MD, professor of urology and director of endourology at UPMC, the 2014-2015 Gallagher Health Policy Scholar. “I hope this position...
View ArticleUPMC Physician Reaches Rare Milestone with 3000th Prostate Surgery
PITTSBURGH, May 1, 2014 – Joel B. Nelson, M.D., chair of the Department of Urology at UPMC, has performed 3,000 radical prostatectomies since coming to Pittsburgh in 1999. He joins only a handful of...
View ArticlePennsylvania Recognizes May as Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
PITTSBURGH, May 20, 2014 – The month of May has been officially recognized as Bladder Cancer Awareness Month by the State of Pennsylvania. Resolution #699 was sponsored by Representative Robert...
View ArticleGenetic Discovery Yields Prostate Cancer Test, Promise of Future Therapy
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15, 2014 – A genetic discovery out of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is leading to a highly accurate test for aggressive prostate cancer and identifies new avenues...
View ArticlePitt Team Publishes Case Study on Segmental Testicular Infarction and...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2014 – A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh recently published a case study of a 47-year-old man with minocycline-induced vasculitis in Urology. The study’s lead...
View ArticlePitt Experts Review Limitations of Animal Models in Studies of Underactive...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1, 2014 – Experts from the University of Pittsburgh were part of a group researchers that reviewed the current understanding of the pathophysiology and animal models used to study the...
View ArticlePitt Team Evaluates Tensile Strength of the Human Ureter
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3, 2015 – Few published studies have examined the mechanical properties of the animal ureter and none have determined the tensile strength of the human ureter, which may help prevent...
View ArticleErectile Dysfunction Drugs Could Protect Liver from Sepsis-Induced Damage,...
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 29, 2015 – Drugs that are on the market to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) could have another use—they might be able to protect the liver from damage caused by sepsis, a systemic...
View ArticleUPMC is Only Health System Named ‘Most Wired’ for 13 Consecutive Years
PITTSBURGH, July 11, 2011 – For the 13th consecutive year, UPMC has been named one of the 100 “Most Wired” health systems in the country, the only organization to earn that distinction, according to...
View ArticleGenome Variation in Prostate Tumors and Blood Samples Could Help Predict...
PITTSBURGH, May 8, 2012 – The detection of certain gene abnormalities in the blood or tumor tissue of prostate cancer patients can predict the likelihood of relapse, according to researchers at the...
View ArticleRobotic-Assisted Prostate Cancer Surgery Drives Up Costs, Despite Little...
PITTSBURGH, May 23, 2012 – In one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of the cost of robotic-assisted, laparoscopic surgery for prostate cancer, researchers at UPMC found that this now-dominant...
View ArticleChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Again Named One of the Nation’s...
PITTSBURGH, June 5 – Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has been named to U.S. News & World Report’s 2012-13 Honor Roll of Best Children’s Hospitals, one of only 12 hospitals in the nation...
View Article‘Orthopedics This Week’ Announces Top 19 US Sports Medicine Specialists
Orthopedics This Week announced their list of the Top US Sports Medicine Doctors. “According to those in-the-know, there are 19 high echelon sports medicine specialists in the U.S. who are...
View ArticleChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Study Reveals Success Rate of...
PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2013 – Blockage between the kidney and the ureter in infants can be successfully repaired with minimally invasive surgical approaches, according to a Children’s Hospital of...
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