Pitt researchers are closer to curing a nerve cell disease after creating a new protein model. For the first time, a team of 10 Pitt researchers from the School of Medicine mapped the tiny fibers of...

Students rolled through stop signs and nearly hit bicyclists in an indoor texting-and-driving simulation Friday in Posvar Hall for AT&T’s It Can Wait campaign. The company partnered with the Phi...

Instead of prescribing drugs based solely off patients’ medical records, Pitt’s Philip Empey is looking into a new tactic — basing prescriptions on patients’ DNA. Empey, assistant professor of...

College students are drilled on the definition of consent over and over — but many of them don’t understand how to apply these lessons to their daily lives. On Monday, Mike Domitrz, founder of The...

After four years of clinical nutrition and dietetics classes, Pitt student Julia Cohen doesn’t take grocery shopping lightly. “I pay attention to serving size, to if there’s anything hidden —...

Rather than get trans health care on campus, Pitt students travel to Edgewood Every morning and night, Summer Wright takes two pills. The first is her daily dose of estrogen. The second blocks the testosterone...

By examining protein structures, Pitt researcher Rena Robinson aims to shift the focus of Alzheimer’s research from the brain to the body. The National Institutes of Health recently granted Robinson...

With a discussion on sex and anatomy, Susan Wells documented the history of female empowerment in a lecture this weekend. On Friday, Feb. 5, about 75 students, graduates and faculty members gathered in...

When Chris Murawski injured his ankle playing baseball in high school, he didn’t know the subsequent surgery would lead him to a career in orthopedic surgery — and to a spot on Forbes Magazine’s...