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UPMC Celebrates 500th Adult Living-Donor Liver Transplant

While many LDLTs occur between relatives, some patients receive the gift of an altruistic donation from someone they do not know, which was the case for the 500th procedure.

A survey of transgender youth at a gender-affirming clinic found that 47% avoided disclosing gender identity to outside providers.

While most patients quit smoking before weight-loss surgery, smoking prevalence returns to pre-surgery levels within seven years.

Fertility specialist Dr. Marie Menke connects the CDC's latest figures on declining American birth rates with delaying parenthood.

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Gina Sequeira, M.D., M.S., adolescent medicine fellow, lead author, and other researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh surveyed patients in a local clinic providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth and found that a surprisingly high number of them intentionally avoided disclosing their gender identity to doctors outside the clinic.

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