https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us provides the latest news from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center A study led by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pitt Department of Psychology has identified a possible link between adolescent sleep habits and early substance abuse. The study, published today in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, found that both sleep duration and sleep quality during late childhood predict alcohol and cannabis use later in adolescence. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-09-links-habits-adolescent-drug-alcohol.html Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:07:07 EDT news393520019 A newly-identified genetic mutation could increase our understanding of how breast cancer spreads and potentially guide treatment options for women with the disease, according to a study from Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) presented today at the 2014 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-newly-identified-gene-mutation-breast-cancer.html Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:30:01 EST news337598188 Barriers to the sharing of public health data hamper decision-making efforts on local, national and global levels, and stymie attempts to contain emerging global health threats, an international team led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health announced today. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-international-team-reveals-barriers-health.html Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:49:16 EST news336131346 Eating baked or broiled fish once a week is good for the brain, regardless of how much omega-3 fatty acid it contains, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The findings, published online recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, add to growing evidence that lifestyle factors contribute to brain health later in life. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-broiled-fish-weekly-boosts-brain.html Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:10:54 EDT news326373039 Suffering from cystic fibrosis and rejecting the transplanted lungs he had gotten just two years ago, Jon Sacker, 33, came to UPMC from his hometown in Moore, Oklahoma, as a last resort. But when his carbon dioxide levels spiked, making him too sick for another transplant, his family feared the worst. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-patient-implanted-hemolung-lifesaving-lung.html Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:20:01 EDT news323506525 (Medical Xpress)—Health care clinics should routinely offer same-day placement of intrauterine devices (IUDs) to women seeking emergency contraception, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study findings, published online in the journal Contraception, demonstrate that providing patient education along with same-day placement service increases both knowledge and use of IUDs three months and a year after women seek emergency contraception. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-women-emergency-contraception-iuds-same-day.html Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:00:01 EDT news315820931 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), a partner with UPMC CancerCenter, have found that an agent that inhibits mitochondrial division can overcome tumor cell resistance to a commonly used cancer drug, and that the combination of the two induces rapid and synergistic cell death. Separately, neither had an effect. These findings will be presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2014. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-combining-cell-replication-blocker-common.html Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:50:03 EDT news315820894 (Medical Xpress)—Some women with endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease, are predisposed to ovarian cancer, and a genetic screening might someday help reveal which women are most at risk, according to a University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) study, in partnership with Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-screening-reveals-additional-link-endometriosis.html Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:40:05 EDT news315820874 (Medical Xpress)—Genetic screening of cancer can help doctors customize treatments so that patients with melanoma have the best chance of beating it, according to the results of a clinical trial by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), a partner with UPMC CancerCenter. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-genetic-beneficial-melanoma-treatment.html Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:20:02 EDT news315820856 The probability of staying disease-free improves dramatically for ovarian cancer patients who already have been disease-free for a period of time, and time elapsed since remission should be taken into account when making follow-up care decisions, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), a partner with UPMC CancerCenter. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-disease-free-survival-ovarian-cancer.html Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:00:30 EDT news315820820 (Medical Xpress)—Two separate projects, spearheaded by University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences researchers and published recently in scientific journals, represented important steps toward demonstrating on patients the utility of portable, optical brain imaging for concussion and substantiating—via a large-scale statistical analysis—computerized neurocognitive testing for concussion. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-portable-low-cost-optical-imaging-tool.html Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:44:32 EDT news315740654 A national, multi-center study led by University of Pittsburgh researchers found biomarkers that can tell a physician if a patient is at risk for acute kidney injury (AKI), a condition that often affects those in intensive care and can occur hours to days after serious infections, surgery or taking certain medications. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-biomarkers-advance-deadly-kidney-condition.html Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:02:42 EST news313149752 (Medical Xpress)—Women who are deficient in vitamin D in the first 26 weeks of their pregnancy may be at risk of developing severe preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening disorder diagnosed by an increase in blood pressure and protein in the urine, according to research by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-vitamin-d-pregnancy-severe-preeclampsia.html Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:49:39 EST news310038478 Improved communication between pediatric providers and the parents and guardians of adolescents could lead to better health outcomes, a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study reports. The findings are available online in this month's Patient Education and Counseling. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-11-key-adolescent-health-outcomes.html Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:55:15 EST news304757701 Combining a compound from broccoli with an antimalarial drug prevents prostate cancer in mice, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) researchers discovered. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-unusual-combination-therapy-prostate-cancer.html Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:50:02 EDT news298625800 Elderly patients who were hospitalized with infections, such as pneumonia, were more than twice as likely to develop dementia than those who did not have an infection, according to a University of Pittsburgh study, which also found that patients with dementia may be more susceptible to infection. The results of the study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, are available online and published in the September 1st edition of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-dementia-elderly-patients-hospitalized-infections.html Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:00:01 EDT news297333125 (Medical Xpress)—Brain scans measuring blood flow can help diagnose bipolar disorder at an early stage and distinguish the condition from depression, according to a study conducted by a University of Pittsburgh research team published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-08-brain-scans-reveal-differences-depression.html Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:28:13 EDT news296378857 Only eight months into its $100 million, five-year enterprise analytics effort, UPMC and its research partners at the University of Pittsburgh are starting to see the potential of this "big data" technology for accelerating scientific discoveries and the promise of personalized medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-big-technology-breast-cancer.html Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:10:01 EDT news290932977 (Medical Xpress)—Mothers who breastfeed are at significantly lower risk of developing breast cancer, hypertension and suffering heart attacks than women who do not, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study findings, published today in Obstetrics & Gynecology, estimate that suboptimal breastfeeding currently results in $859 million in health care costs and over $17.4 billion in societal costs from maternal deaths before the age of 70. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-breastfeeding-maternal-breast-cancer-heart.html Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:24:52 EDT news289815882 (Medical Xpress)—Depleted numbers of a specific type of white blood cell in the immune systems of people infected with HIV/AIDS appear to be associated with increased levels of unchecked and often damaging inflammation in the body, University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-immune-cells-previously-unrecognized-role.html Wed, 29 May 2013 08:00:02 EDT news289032706 (Medical Xpress)—Late-life depression is associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease and, most predominantly, vascular dementia, according to the results of a new meta-analysis published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-late-life-depression-dementia.html Thu, 02 May 2013 07:40:40 EDT news286699231 Coaching Boys into Men (CBIM), a program that seeks to reduce dating violence and sexual assault, is proven effective to reduce abusive behaviors among male athletes toward their female partners, according to a study that will appear today in the online version of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-boys-men-effective-teen-dating.html Wed, 01 May 2013 09:17:01 EDT news286618616 Puerto Rican children who have asthma are more likely to be exposed to violence and to have changes in a gene that is associated with stress, according to a new study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study, which is the first to examine the links between asthma, stress and gene variation, was recently published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-exposure-violence-gene-linked-asthma.html Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:15:57 EDT news282906935 Patients with locally advanced cervical cancer have better treatment outcomes and are more likely to survive the disease if they receive care at a high-volume medical center than patients treated at low-volume facilities, according to research presented today at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology's annual meeting on women's cancers in Los Angeles. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cervical-cancer-patients-survive-high-volume.html Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:00:01 EDT news282300062 Liver transplantation for hepatoblastoma, the most common liver malignancy in children, is on the rise because more tumors are being detected earlier, improving outcomes for these sick patients, according to a Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC study. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-liver-transplantation-hepatoblastoma.html Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:44:26 EST news281695400 People who lose weight with bariatric surgery may have better results if they receive counseling about increasing physical activity before and after surgery, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-physical-result-outcomes-bariatric-surgery.html Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:50:06 EST news278841557 (Medical Xpress)—Too many athletes may be going back onto the field, court or rink too soon after a concussion, according to a new study that recommends athletes undergo post-exertion neurocognitive testing before being cleared to return to play. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-return-to-play-decisions-commonly-post-exertion-neurocognitive.html Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:40:01 EST news278841524 (Medical Xpress)—Many obstetric care providers could benefit from additional communication training to effectively address smoking cessation with their pregnant patients, according to new research published by Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigators. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-physician-patient-pregnant-women.html Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:10:18 EST news277632575 (Medical Xpress)—Patients suffering from severe Crohn's disease who were no longer able to tolerate intravenous feedings were able to return to a normal oral diet and saw no clinical recurrences of the disease after undergoing intestinal or multivisceral transplants, according to a study of cases performed at UPMC over more than 20 years. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-transplant-effective-severe-crohn-disease.html Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:13:49 EST news275044423 (Medical Xpress)—Heart surgery to repair the mitral valve is safe and leads to a better quality of life for older patients long-suspected to be too high risk for the operation, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-mitral-valve-safe-effective-elderly.html Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:52:43 EST news273829950