Spring 2006
- Stars in the Clouds?
- Not Enough Birds and Bees
- Vaccine Protects Against Avian Flu
- Landmark Donation of Fossil-Rich Land
- Less Risky Depression Treatment
- CMH, ULS Create Minority Health Archive
- Spending Money to Promote Democracy
- Writing The Book on White-Collar Crime
- Toward a Quantum Computer
- Children Born of Rape and Exploitation
- Charitable Giving: Who Gives and Why?
CMH, ULS Create Minority Health Archive
Pitt’s Center for Minority Health and the University Library System have joined to develop an online repository for minority health documents.
The Minority Health Archive was publicly launched January 8 at the National Leadership Summit on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health in Washington, D.C. Stephen Thomas, CMH director and the Philip Hallen Professor of Community Health and Social Justice in GSPH, says much of the history of minority health is not readily available to the general public. “The Minority Health Archive is our contribution to address this problem.” More »
Less Risky Depression and Seizure Treatment
City high school science teachers help through NSF-funded program
Pitt researchers, with the help of a team of high school science teachers, have developed a wireless device that is implanted in the neck to fight depression and epileptic seizures. Federal officials have approved a wired version of the device, but it carries risks and several undesirable side effects.
It has been known for several years that stimulating the vagus nerve, which connects the brain to several major organs, can offset drug-resistant epileptic seizures. Last summer, the FDA approved vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for use to treat severe depression as well. More »