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UPMC hospitals use new system for operating room The future of the standard operating room is here, as surgeons at the UPMC Health System have begun integrating the Hermes Control System into their regular routine. Hermes, a system that operates on voice and hand-held touch screen commands, expands the use of voice control technology in […]

AIDS prevention plan goes on-line The Pennsylvania Prevention Project at Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) has put the Pennsylvania Comprehensive Community HIV Prevention Plan on the Internet at its award-winning web site, http://www.stophiv.com. Developed by a 40-member committee from across the state, the plan provides guidelines people must follow when using state and […]

Genetics program awarded $115,000 grant Pitt's genetics education and counseling program has received a $115,000 grant from the Ladies Hospital Aid Society (LHAS) of western Pennsylvania to help inform the community about genetic disease risk and available counseling services. The genetics education and counseling program provides current information about inherited conditions and related services for […]

Pitt, Port Authority optimistic that free-ride plan will continue Both Port Authority Transit and University officials are optimistic that Pitt I.D. holders will continue to ride buses and light-rail vehicles free of charge throughout Allegheny County, despite published reports to the contrary. But Pitt's annual fee may rise from the current $1.5 million to as […]

Salaries of Pitt officers, highest paid faculty reported Pitt's five highest paid professors during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1998, were again from the School of Medicine, according to an IRS form that the University filed this month. The professors were: Robert B. Herberman, professor of medicine/pathology and associate vice chancellor for Health […]

Attorneys for Pitt and for Johnstown campus Affirmative Action Director Clea Hollis have begun preparing their cases in a sex and race discrimination lawsuit that Hollis filed against UPJ and its president. At a conference on Monday, U.S. District Judge D. Brooks Smith gave the two sides until Nov. 24 to prepare their cases. Hollis […]

Nordenberg to be profiled by PCN Chancellor Mark Nordenberg will be the subject of an hour-long profile on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN). The program, part of PCN's "Profiles" series about prominent Pennsylvanians, will debut May 30 at 10 p.m. It will repeat May 31 at 10 a.m. and at various times over the next […]