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Vitamin D Linked to Better Blood Pressure in Pittsburgh Kids

A UPMC Children's Hospital clinical trial tied vitamin D supplementation to improved blood pressure and insulin sensitivity.

Commercially insured children are seeing their pediatrician less often, a Pitt and UPMC Children's study finds. But is that good or bad?

The head of pharmacy at UPMC Presbyterian introduces UPMC’s creepy healers – medicinal leeches; a father loses more than 30 pounds in order to donate part of his liver to his dying son; and Dr. Kristina Rudd discusses new research and understanding behind sepsis-related deaths in hospitals.

Among the 11M annual sepsis deaths are a disproportionately high number of children in poor areas.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Researchers Regrow Damaged Nerves with Polymer and Protein

Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Vitamin D Linked to Better Blood Pressure in Pittsburgh Kids

Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Visits to Pediatricians on the Decline

Thursday, January 16, 2020
Sepsis kills 1 in 5 Globally, Double Previous Estimate

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U.S. kids getting more well-child checkups, having fewer sick visits

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Special event to focus on ‘fourth trimester’ for new mothers

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Kidsburgh Kidcast: Pregnancy Myths

Pittsburgh Business Times
U.S. Steel, other local companies get top marks in corporate equality index

Medical Dialogues
High Dose Vitamin D Lowers BP In Obese Kids, Finds New Trial

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Kristin Ray, M.D., M.S., pediatrician-scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, is the lead author on a new analysis that showed that commercially insured children in the U.S. are seeing pediatricians less often than they did a decade ago.

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