A wide variety of pain-relieving drugs are available both over the counter and by prescription. While pain can be horrible, it serves a useful purpose.…
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A new study from the University of Pittsburgh has revealed that pregnant women with excessive gestational weight gain had a higher cardiovascular risk later in…
Insects inspire tiny robots that can carry out tasks in hard-to-reach spaces and inhospitable environments. University of Pittsburgh Engineers Create Insect-Inspired Robots That Can Monitor…
Pooling data from dozens of experiments let researchers show whose brains benefit the most from exercise. We all know exercise is good for us, but…
[embedded content]University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a new procedure to treat a painful foot condition called plantar fasciitis. A patient’s own fat is injected…
360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. Here’s where it all went, and why the world must transform plastic use from…
The COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).…
A bad flu year on top of the pandemic could mean trouble for already-stressed hospitals. As winter looms and hospitals across the U.S. continue to…
The huge number of active coronavirus infections offers plenty of opportunity for mutations to occur and new variants to arise. Massive numbers of new COVID–19…
Assistant professor of cell biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Credit: UPMC Near-Atomic Look at Three Ways To Thwart SARS-CoV-2 Variants SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory…
Healthy mouse intestine with long, finger-like villi (left) and intestine of mouse with environmental enteric dysfunction with shortened villi (right). Credit: Amrita Bhattacharjee A chronic…
For the first time ever, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine discovered that phages — tiny viruses that attack bacteria — are…
When Pandemic Hit, Some People Wanted More Sexual Activity It is widely assumed that Americans’ sexual activity took a nosedive during the early chaotic months…
Americans are drinking less beer, but the beer they’re drinking has a higher alcohol content, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate…
Animals who received inhaled nanobodies have fewer coronavirus particles in their bronchioles (right panel, orange) and are less inflamed (magenta). Credit: Nambulli et al., Science…
There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the…
Computed tomography of the brain. Patients with clinically diagnosed neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 are six times more likely to die in the hospital than…
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a…
Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje…
Shifting Gears Toward Chemical Machines The gear is one of the oldest mechanical tools in human history1 and led to machines ranging from early irrigation…