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Alexander Sundermann and Lee Harrison working in lab

A new way to stop diseases from spreading in hospitals

How clinicians stop infectious disease transmission in hospitals hasn’t changed in more than a century. Pitt researchers are using AI and genome sequencing to change that.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
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What Pittsburgh students need to know before Thanksgiving break

Here’s how to get home, what to do if you’re staying on campus and important COVID-19 info.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pitt’s new recreation and wellness center will champion students’ mental and physical wellness

"The newest, coolest and healthiest place on campus" is coming soon.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Students
a nurse tending to a prone patient in an ambulance

Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?

An interdisciplinary Pitt team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Get fresh greens all year round at many Pitt dining locations

The University has partnered with local agricultural company Fifth Season to grow lettuce, spinach and other greens using 97% less land and 95% less water than traditional farming methods.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Our City/Our Campus
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A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff

A nurse anesthetist and Pitt alum watched veterans with PTSD “go to sleep in Pittsburgh but wake up in Iraq.” He knew something had to change.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Nursing
Thanos Tzounopoulos wearing grey shirt and glasses sitting in a chair

A Pitt scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears

The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
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Plastic surgery professors step into entrepreneurship

Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
  • Innovation and Research
Jacqueline Burgette and Peggy Liu presenting their activity box idea

Innovation challenge winners tackle health disparities

Projects that address tooth decay in kids, parenting while Black and ventilator-associated pneumonia each took home $115,000 in this year’s Pitt Innovation Challenge.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  • School of Medicine
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An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies

Some at-risk patients didn’t know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, Pitt researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
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We rate Pitt therapy dog Halloween costumes

See what pups were wearing in the Cathedral’s most fur-raising night of the year. Plus, hear from students organizing to spread the puppy love.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • Pittsburgh Campus
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What you need to know about COVID-19 boosters

Pitt’s COVID-19 Medical Response Office answers your most frequently asked questions.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • Covid-19
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Mission of Mercy dental clinic brought smiles to hundreds in the Pittsburgh region

Pitt Dental Medicine helped provide free care, from cleanings to root canals, for those who needed it most.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • School of Dental Medicine
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It takes a village to keep trees healthy

Aurora Sharrard, Pitt’s director of sustainability, explains why you might see arborists on the Pittsburgh campus — and why our trees require regular care.

  • Health and Wellness
  • University News
  • Our City/Our Campus
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Pandemic shutdowns had some mental health benefits for teen girls

A new Pitt study shows how girls spent their pandemic free time — and drives home the everyday stress of being a 21st century teen.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
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Pitt teams tapped to develop 'Google Maps' of cells important in aging

The National Institutes of Health has given two Pitt projects $31 million to create a molecular atlas that could help researchers understand age-related diseases as diverse as cancer and dementia.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • School of Medicine
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A little-studied brain circuit could have big effects on learning

New research led by a Pitt undergrad and psychology’s Jamie Hanson could inform interventions to help children who experience high levels of stress.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Technology & Science
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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Relationship Violence Awareness Month offers ways to support survivors

Speak with advocates, break through the bystander effect, and talk about healthy relationships.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
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Brian Galla wants to help your teen kick their Instagram habit

Appealing to their sense of rebellion might be the key to helping teens cut back on social media use, the Pitt psychologist's research shows.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Psychology in Education
  • School of Education
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COVID-19 testing: what staff and faculty need to know

We answer FAQs for employees, including who needs to take tests, how you get them and what you should do if you’re symptomatic.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Covid-19