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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Stephanie Strasburg |Venuri Siriwardane
Lavier Pounds, a volunteer with TransYOUniting, of the North Side, rallies the crowd in the rain outside UPMC’s Downtown headquarters as they call for UPMC to reinstate gender-affirming care for people under 19, on Thursday, April 3, 2025. “It’s okay to be ourselves," said Pounds. "I’m here to help us uprise." (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)This article first appeared on PublicSource and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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3 weeks ago | 
publicsource.org | Venuri Siriwardane |Stephanie Strasburg
About 200 people turned out in rainy weather to rally outside UPMC headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh Thursday evening. Standing under rainbow umbrellas and waving trans pride flags, they rebuked the health care giant for rolling back young people’s access to gender-affirming care.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Venuri Siriwardane
Marian Jarlenski, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health, on March 27 at the Café Carnegie in Oakland. (Photo by Anastasia Busby/PublicSource)PublicSource is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for our free newsletters.”Deep cuts to Medicaid are being debated on Capitol Hill right now.
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3 weeks ago | 
publicsource.org | Venuri Siriwardane
Deep cuts to Medicaid are being debated on Capitol Hill right now. Lawmakers could slash federal funding for state programs, force enrollees to work to keep their coverage or kick those who qualified under expansions off the rolls, among the options on the table.
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4 weeks ago | 
publicsource.org | Venuri Siriwardane
Shots rang out in a quiet Turtle Creek neighborhood on a Sunday night in December. Alarmed by the sound of gunfire, neighbors called Lee Davis and his team of violence interrupters, who had worked to build trust in the community. It was after 10 p.m., but Davis was awake and keeping watch. Gun violence is more likely after dark, and some of the “most horrific” shootings in the area took place on weekends, he said.
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1 month ago | 
opencampus.org | Maddy Franklin |Venuri Siriwardane
The shock of a Trump administration policy that would slash federal research funding is giving way to pain in Pittsburgh, with expected layoffs and career paths in jeopardy. A Feb. 7 memo, reportedly drafted by administration officials, said the National Institutes of Health would cap indirect costs — funding for research operating expenses — at 15% across all grants for research institutions.
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1 month ago | 
publicsource.org | Venuri Siriwardane |Maddy Franklin
The shock of a Trump administration policy that would slash federal research funding is giving way to pain in Pittsburgh, with expected layoffs and career paths in jeopardy. A Feb. 7 memo, reportedly drafted by administration officials, said the National Institutes of Health would cap indirect costs — funding for research operating expenses — at 15% across all grants for research institutions.
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2 months ago | 
technical.ly | Venuri Siriwardane
Technical.ly partnered with PublicSource to explore the landscape of work in Pittsburgh — famed for its industriousness and intense union-management conflict and collaboration — as it is pressure-tested by changes in governmental policy, technology and economics. When UPMC acquired a struggling two-hospital health system in Washington and Greene counties last year, it promised to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into its revitalization.
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2 months ago | 
publicsource.org | Venuri Siriwardane
PublicSource, with Technical.ly, is exploring the landscape of work in Pittsburgh — famed for its industriousness and intense union-management conflict and collaboration — as it is pressure-tested by changes in governmental policy, technology and economics. When UPMC acquired a struggling two-hospital health system in Washington and Greene counties last year, it promised to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into its revitalization.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
publicsource.org | Venuri Siriwardane
As recently as July, the Allegheny County Jail was dosing people in its custody with addiction medication in the middle of the night. Advocates called the regimen “triggering” and “detrimental,” and doctors in the community said they wouldn’t treat patients that way. Now, the jail is dosing people at a more reasonable time and offering more types of medication — improvements that some of those same advocates are praising.
