In response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold Dobbs Vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization-a decision that takes away a woman’s constitutional right for an abortion-members of Pennsylvania commissions released a joint statement of disapproval.
Following a month of hosting pop-up movies in a variety of parks throughout the City of Pittsburgh, the “Dollar Bank Cinema in the Park” series returns to its standard format in July and August by presenting 50+ free movie engagements at nine park locations.
Senescent cells — those that have lost the ability to divide — accumulate with age and are key drivers of age-related diseases, such as cancer, dementia and cardiovascular disease. In a new study, a team led by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers has uncovered a mechanism by which senescent, or “zombie,” cells develop.
Last week, members of the Pennsylvania Commission on LGBTQ Affairs were joined by education and youth advocates to denounce a bill that is heading to the Senate that would restrict how teachers address various subjects in the classroom.
A ceremony celebrating UPMC East’s 10th anniversary was held today to commemorate a decade of excellence in providing world-class health care close to home for residents of Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs.
Gov. Tom Wolf (D-PA) has vetoed, disapproved and then returned what he deemed a “deficient charter resolution,” but on June 21, he announced that new regulations for the Charter School Law (CSL) are ready to be published.
Redlining – a discriminatory mortgage lending practice instituted in the 1930s – resulted in health impacts that reverberate today, contributing to long-term environmental and asthma-related inequities that disproportionately affect Black Pittsburgh residents, according to a new analysis by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health scientists.