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Cynthia Sherry is having dinner with seven gentlemen at a Dallas restaurant. All of them are radiologists, and Sherry is about to become the first female partner of the practice. During the meal, one partner says to her, “I’ll bet you’ve never been to dinner with seven men before.” If the radiologists think Sherry is uncomfortable with the numbers, they’re wrong. More >
Filed under: Biology, Health, Psychology, UPMC Health Journal, Women's health
After her first son was born, Magdalena Sanchez-Dahl experienced pain unlike any she had felt before – a terrible ache that went down to her bones. Just getting out of bed took her a full hour. More > (DOC)
Pitt researchers, with the help of a team of Pittsburgh high school science teachers, have developed a wireless device that is implanted in the neck to fight depression and epileptic seizures. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration already has approved a wired version of the device, but that one carries risks and several undesirable side effects. More >
Extreme poverty—defined as lacking access to adequate nutrition, clean drinking water, safe shelter, and basic health care—kills 20,000 people every day, noted Siddharth Chandra during a GSPIA forum titled “Environmental Threats to Human Security: Problems and Policy.” Poverty, Chandra pointed out, is tied to environmental degradation. More >
“Technology is a queer thing,” writer and scientist C.P. Snow once observed. “It brings you great gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.” The same technology used to make life-saving vaccines can produce viruses immune to those vaccines. Terrorists can employ improved drug delivery technology and other scientific advances to make their attacks more deadly. More >
A transplant is the only option for someone with end-stage liver disease, but such patients face difficult questions when choosing the best time to receive a transplant. In a panel discussion at the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., a Pitt researcher presented findings on how his mathematical models can help patients make the right decision. More >
When elderly people need assistance with the activities of daily life, one might assume that the best people to care for them would be the ones who know them best—their spouses. But being married to one’s caregiver could be a prescription for abuse, especially if the caregiver is also suffering from his or her own physical or mental problems. More >
“HIV. SARS. West Nile. Mad Cow. More to come…” So began a chilling presentation on environmental change and emerging infectious diseases by Pitt Professor Robbie Ali during a panel discussion, “The Lab: Emerging Issues,” at the Society for Environmental Journalists conference in Pittsburgh. More >
Filed under: Biology, Health, Neuroscience, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Psychology
In his room at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Joseph looked in the mirror. There, he saw a man he had never seen before. He pinched himself. The man in the mirror pinched himself. But it still wasn’t Joseph. More >
Denise Benko remembers the day the bike messenger was brought into Mercy Hospital’s emergency department. He was zooming over Downtown streets to the next delivery when somebody in a parked car opened the side door. More >
