For readers in Pittsburgh, this page covers medical conditions, from diagnosis and treatment breakthroughs to disease outbreak alerts. Reporting follows clinical trials, public health responses and awareness campaigns tied to the region.
Allegheny Health Network's cancer center will be renamed after donor James Fitterling, executive board chair of Dow Inc., following the largest single gift in its history.
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A Canon-McMillan educator is back in the classroom following three years of intensive cancer treatment.
Pitt and UPMC researchers identify brain abnormalities tied to cognitive decline in pulmonary hypertension patients.
The UPMC Jameson Cardiac Catheterization Lab director is recognized for her professional leadership in the medical field.
Regular subjects here include new treatments approved for specific diseases, outbreak alerts from health authorities, and studies of disease risk factors. Coverage reaches across the city and into the communities around it wherever a disease story touches local patients or providers. Clinical trial results and the public health decisions that follow them often get reported together, since one shapes the other. Research funding and access to specialty care are the constraints that most often determine which advances reach patients here.
