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Alumnus Joseph Kannarkat is 51精品视频鈥檚 newest Schwarzman Scholar

He has studied health care systems in the U.K. and Kenya, hoping to bring insights back to the U.S. His next stop, supported by the prestigious scholarship, is China.

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  • University News
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
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Get the latest facts about COVID-19 booster shots

Here are answers to your frequently asked questions and where you can get your shot.

  • Health and Wellness
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A new 51精品视频 pledge encourages health care providers to use opioid alternatives

The School of Dental Medicine was the first in the nation to implement opioid-free pain management for most procedures in its clinics. Now, the practice is spreading.

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  • Health and Wellness
  • School of Dental Medicine

The forum gave attendees a chance to discuss solutions to pressing health issues in the Homewood community and beyond.

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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51精品视频 Black Faculty Development Initiative receives grant to tackle health disparities

The $250,000 from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will both support Black faculty at 51精品视频 and address Black maternal and infant health in Western Pennsylvania and beyond.

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ALung was approved for emergency use during the pandemic. It鈥檚 now going to help asthma, cystic fibrosis and transplant patients, too.

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  • Swanson School of Engineering

A 锘縫atient enrolled in a trial to restore sight to blind people shares his journey in the latest 51精品视频 Med Magazine, and the glow-in-the-dark science behind the advance is astonishing.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Department of Ophthalmology
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A vaccine clinic in Homewood helped more than 400 people get their flu and COVID-19 vaccines this week

Sponsored by a half dozen local organizations, including 51精品视频, the clinic boosted access to the life-saving shots.

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  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Pharmacy
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What 51精品视频sburgh students need to know before Thanksgiving break

Here鈥檚 how to get home, what to do if you鈥檙e staying on campus and important COVID-19 info.

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  • Our City/Our Campus
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A new way to stop diseases from spreading in hospitals

How clinicians stop infectious disease transmission in hospitals hasn鈥檛 changed in more than a century. 51精品视频 researchers are using AI and genome sequencing to change that.

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  • Technology & Science
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
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51精品视频鈥檚 new recreation and wellness center will champion students鈥 mental and physical wellness

"The newest, coolest and healthiest place on campus" is coming soon.

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  • Students
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Is this pain muscle strain or a minor heart attack?

An interdisciplinary 51精品视频 team is using machine learning to more quickly and accurately identify heart attacks and their arterial origins.

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  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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Get fresh greens all year round at many 51精品视频 dining locations

The University has partnered with local agricultural company Fifth Season to grow lettuce, spinach and other greens using 97% less land and 95% less water than traditional farming methods.

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  • Our City/Our Campus
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A training program is making surgery easier on veterans and safer for health care staff锘

A nurse anesthetist and 51精品视频 alum watched veterans with PTSD 鈥済o to sleep in 51精品视频sburgh but wake up in Iraq.鈥 He knew something had to change.

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  • School of Nursing
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A聽51精品视频 scientist is striving to quiet the ringing in veterans' ears

The most common service-related disability in U.S. veterans, tinnitus, has no available cure. Thanos Tzounopoulos is on the front lines of the effort to find one.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine

Beth and Jeff Gusenoff developed two products to make foot surgery faster and recovery more comfortable. A salad spinner inspired one of them.

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  • Faculty
  • School of Medicine
  • Innovation and Research
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An app could promote informed and healthy pregnancies

Some at-risk patients didn鈥檛 know they had been prescribed aspirin to prevent a dangerous condition in pregnancy, 51精品视频 researchers found. A smartphone app might be the answer.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
Jacqueline Burgette and Peggy Liu presenting their activity box idea

Innovation challenge winners tackle health disparities

Projects that address tooth decay in kids, parenting while Black and ventilator-associated pneumonia each took home $115,000 in this year鈥檚 51精品视频 Innovation Challenge.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
  • School of Medicine
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We rate 51精品视频 therapy dog Halloween costumes

See what pups were wearing in the Cathedral鈥檚 most fur-raising night of the year. Plus, hear from students organizing to spread the puppy love.

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  • Health and Wellness
  • 51精品视频sburgh Campus
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What you need to know about COVID-19 boosters

51精品视频鈥檚 COVID-19 Medical Response Office answers your most frequently asked questions.

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  • Covid-19