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Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC celebrated the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art campus, unparalleled among pediatric hospitals nationwide in its level of technological sophistication and resources dedicated to family-centered care.
The Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration was so named at a June 18th press conference to honor the $3 million gift from Mr. Fox, a Pennsylvania native and University of Pittsburgh alum. UPMC has pledged to match this donation. Among the Center’s research projects will be the study of artificial vision tools such as BrainPort, an investigational device that aims to give back sight through non-visual neural pathways. Cpl. Mike Jernigan, a medically retired Marine who lost both his eyes in a roadside bomb explosion, demonstrated the BrainPort technology and talked about its potential during the press conference.
The UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program, established in 2000, is an ongoing clinical service and research program that focuses on the diagnosis, evaluation and management of sports-related concussion in athletes of all levels. The program’s internationally known team of researchers has published numerous groundbreaking research study results in major medical journals during the past several years concerning the effects of and recovery from sports-related concussion in high school and college athletes. These studies have had significant implications for commonly used return-to-play guidelines.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is nationally recognized as a leader in applying information technology to improve the care and safety of patients, customer service and business processes. Regularly named as one of the “100 Most Wired” health systems in the United States by Hospitals & Health Networks, UPMC has partnered with leading vendors, such as IBM and Alcatel-Lucent, to develop technology solutions that will benefit health care providers and patients worldwide.
A new operating room at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is designed solely to accommodate an innovative surgical procedure for removing brain tumors in which the nose and nasal sinuses are used to gain access to the brain. This facility, called the Endonasal Surgical Suite, is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.
Based on groundbreaking research and experience in solid-organ transplants, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is beginning a novel clinical study on human hand transplantation that seeks to reduce the use of immunosuppressive drugs and their damaging side effects for patients.
Diagnoses of bipolar disorder among children are on the rise, but little is known about the disease in children. As a national leader in pediatric bipolar disorder research and clinical treatment, WPIC has the only clinic in the U.S. solely dedicated to treating children with this illness. Here at WPIC, highly recognized child psychiatry experts, David A. Axelson, M.D. and Boris Birmaher, M.D., have developed the largest and most comprehensive treatment clinic for pediatric bipolar disorder in the country.
With more than 10 million new cases every year, cancer has become one of the world’s most devastating diseases, killing an estimated 20,000 people each day. To help meet the growing demand for treatment, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is collaborating with GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, to develop cancer centers internationally.
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During every sports season, you hear it...a star player is out for the season with a torn ACL, one of the most common sports-related injuries in people of all ages. Will he or she ever be able to return as good as before? Across the U.S. every year more than 200,000 young active people tear their ACL, the main stabilizer of the knee joint. Traditional ACL repair surgery has been done basically the same way for the past 30 years, but today, orthopaedic surgeons are changing their minds on how to fix torn ACLs.
In the first facility of its kind, advances in sports medicine science made for the athletic field are being applied to the battlefield and used to protect the nation’s elite soldiers from injury.
The first of some 50 research groups set to occupy the spacious laboratories inside the University of Pittsburgh’s Biomedical Science Tower 3 (BST3) started moving into the $205.5 million state-of-the-art research facility in recent weeks, but today marks the formal opening of what University officials describe as “a new research building for a new science.”
The University of Pittsburgh Diabetes Institute unites experts in endocrinology, education, epidemiology, patient and physician education, clinical care, health economics, behavioral science, and rural medicine. The Institute focuses on prevention, detection through screenings, education, and research. One of the country’s few programs facilitating the translation of diabetes research into practice it is dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art treatments to all people with diabetes and to those at risk throughout the region.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and the University of Pittsburgh have assumed the position as international leaders in the critical, high-profile and rapidly expanding field of bioterrorism preparedness, research and response with the creation of the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC.
The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine was established by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to realize the vast potential of tissue engineering and other techniques aimed at repairing damaged or diseased tissues and organs.
The development of the Salk polio vaccine represents one of the most important milestones in the history of medicine. Jonas Salk and his team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh succeeded in creating a vaccine that contributed to the eventual eradication of polio in the United States. On April 12, 1955, the vaccine was officially declared “safe, effective and potent” in an announcement that gave hope that polio could be conquered.