Pitt’s Center for Minority Health (CMH), part of the Graduate School of Public Health, has received a $500,000 matching grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in support of its Healthy Black Family Project (HBFP), an intervention designed to prevent diabetes and hypertension in African-American neighborhoods in the East End. The Pittsburgh Foundation, DSF Charitable […]
Stephen Foster sketchbook now on line >
September 15th, 2005Composer Stephen Foster’s personal sketchbook — containing the draft texts of some of his most famous song lyrics as he wrote them in the 1850s — is now on line for the public to view. Part of the Foster Hall Collection in the University’s Center for American Music, the sketchbook includes the draft texts for […]
Pitt completes dorm sprinkler installations >
September 15th, 2005With the installation of sprinkler systems in its fraternity complex and Forbes Craig apartments this summer, Pitt has completed a five-year, $15 million fire suppression project that helps protect all 6,300 residents occupying nearly 2 million sq. ft. of undergraduate student housing on the Pittsburgh campus. The comprehensive fire suppression systems, which consist of fire […]
UPMC expands patient ID system >
September 15th, 2005The Positive Patient Identification (PPID) system, which is expected to revolutionize health care by helping to reduce medical errors, has been implemented across all inpatient units at UPMC South Side Hospital. This will be the first time PPID has been used in an emergency department in the UPMC system. PPID uses bar code technology to […]
Prostate cancer screenings available >
September 15th, 2005Prostate cancer is a serious health concern for American men, especially for African- American men who are nearly twice as likely to die from this disease as white men. During the next 10 years, the total number of men in the U.S. diagnosed with prostate cancer is expected to increase by 40 percent from approximately […]
Correction >
September 15th, 2005The “Changing Face of Medicine” exhibit, currently on display in Falk Library, will run through Oct. 14. An incorrect date was published in the Sept. 1 University Times.