The most common hereditary retinal dystrophy in the world is Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). Over the past four years, the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, […]
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Gathering the Pieces to Help Solve the Problem of Sino-Nasal Cancers
The Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is consistently one of the most highly regarded departments in the country. A key component of this long-time […]
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What is the Guerilla Eye Service?
Living up to their motto of “travel light and save sight,” Dr. Evan Waxman, along with ophthalmology residents and medical school students, take their “mobile eye clinic” to underserved communities […]
Three Years of the Survivorship Clinic: New Programs and New Research
In 2016, Jonas Johnson, MD, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh, and Marci Nilsen, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor in the Department of Acute and Tertiary […]
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Big Data, Big Possibilities
By leveraging scalable computational power, machine learning offers the potential to predict outcomes of a person’s disease from real-world data extracted from electronic medical records. What is a Digital Twin? […]
Q&A with Dr. Andrew McCall, Otologist
Sight & Sound launched a new feature with our most recent edition – a Question & Answer (Q&A) session with one of our popular University of Pittsburgh faculty members and […]
Restoring Vision with Optogenetics
Dr. Sahel spoke about pioneering work in optogenetics, where scientists have attempted to, with success, restore the function of the cone cells in the eye that were not completely lost […]
Reviving Retigabine for Tinnitus Podcast
Tinnitus Talk, “a podcast on all things tinnitus,” interviewed Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD, director of the Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center on his research on developing a drug to treat tinnitus. His […]
Hearing Loss and Social Isolation
“Blindness separates us from things, but deafness separates us from people.” —Helen Keller These words, spoken so many years ago, unfortunately still hold true for millions of people with untreated […]
A New Look at Treating Eye Disease
Exciting breakthroughs in ocular drug delivery and release may provide relief for vision patients who rely on eye drops, thanks to the work of Morgan Fedorchak, PhD, Assistant Professor of […]
Surgical Cognition Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh
There is much more to surgery than manual dexterity. A virtuoso violinist does not necessarily make a great surgeon. The Surgical Cognition Laboratory at the Eye & Ear Institute is […]
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Getting a Bird’s Eye View
Scientists in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine continue to advance their research on a variety of areas that could eventually help solve the […]
A Window to the Brain: Understanding How What We Hear Influences How We Behave
As humans, our senses, such as hearing, influence how we perceive and recognize the world around us. For example, most everyone has experienced the phenomenon of hearing a certain song […]
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Swimming Towards a Cure: Studying Fish to Understand Vision Loss in Humans
Led by Jeffrey Gross, PhD, the E. Ronald Salvitti Chair in Ophthalmology Research and the director of the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration, researchers are studying an unlikely […]
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COVID-19 and Your Respiratory Tract: Important Signs to Know From the ENT Team
The Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine would like to provide information on COVID-19 and how it affects your respiratory tract. The clinicians are here […]
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