Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

In the latest episode of “On the Job,” Priya Krishna visited Bill Freeman, who brings care and finesse to patients’ meals at ...

Allegheny General Hospital earns gold-level excellence award for cardio-oncology care, joining an elite group of 15 hospitals ...

There are several theories about the origins of IBS but it's unclear exactly why. Still, there are treatments no matter the cause.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has opened an urgent care center just for kids. UPMC Children’s Express Care opened last month at 21 Waterford Drive in Silver Spring Township. The new ...

The severity of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction affects risk for incident stroke and transient ischemic attack, as well as major bleeding.

In a series on people with special needs in Pittsburgh's workforce, this story looks at the anxiety and importance of disability evaluations.

Established in 2021, the World Tumor Registry is being developed as a collection of registries or individual cancer sites, each to contain thousands of searchable digital microscopic images of cancer ...

A new painkiller that is said to be free of addiction risks may be transformative for treatment of acute pain, according to local medical professionals. "I think it could be a potentially ...

In patients with high-risk HER2-positive breast cancer, post-surgery, or adjuvant, treatment with trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) reduced the long-term risk of death or invasive disease by 46% and ...

Workers at Washington Hospital voted to authorize a strike Monday in an effort to make UPMC invest in quality care and good jobs for their local community.

A UPMC Somerset nurse has received a DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses for "outstanding care" provided at the facility.