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Study: 1 in 10 adults reports heavy drinking, obesity

A new study led by a researcher at UPMC in Pittsburgh found that 1 in 10 U.S. adults reports both heavy drinking and obesity. Both are on the rise across the country, and the study published this spring in JAMA Internal Medicine examines how often these risk factors overlap and how clinical ...

Petition urges health systems to boost security after attacks

Nurses and hospital workers, along with SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, have launched a petition calling on Pennsylvania health care systems to invest in staff safety and security measures following the violent Nov. 7 attack of an emergency room nurse at UPMC Altoona by a patient. Travis Dunn, ...

UPMC – GoHealth Urgent Care opens doors in Waynesburg

Donald Yealy, UPMCÎÞëÊÓÆµ™s chief medical officer and senior vice president of the Health Services Division, cuts the ribbon at the UPMC-GoHealth Urgent Care center in Waynesburg Wednesday morning, accompanied by a group of medical leaders and officials from Greene County and Pennsylvania. The ...

UPMC shooting highlights dangers facing health-care workers

A man who took staff members hostage in the ICU at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York County last weekend, killing a police officer and wounding five before he died in a shootout with police, was the most recent incident of increasing violence against U.S. health care workers. Workplace violence ...

Chronic high blood pressure during pregnancy doubles

The number of individuals in the U.S. who had chronic hypertension or chronic high blood pressure during pregnancy doubled between 2008 and 2021, according to a new study published in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association. At the same time, prescribing and filling of ...