Press Release CONTACT: Wendy Zellner PHONE: (412) 586-9777 E-MAIL: [email protected] Battelle, IBM, Merck Join UPMC’s Effort to Produce Vaccines to Protect Public Health 21st Century Biodefense Offers Innovative Solution to President Obama’s Call for Improved Response to Bioterrorism and Infectious Diseases PITTSBURGH, March 11 – Building on its extensive efforts to establish a flexible vaccine development and production facility to strengthen the nation’s biosecurity, UPMC announced today that it has been joined by Battelle, IBM and Merck & Co. Inc. in this first-of-its-kind initiative. These [...]

. . . Journal of Child Neurology J Child Neurol 2010; 25; 321 Francis J. DiMario, Jr, Mirna Hajjar and Thomas Ciesielski A 16-Year-Old Girl With Bilateral Visual Loss and Left Hemiparesis Following an Immunization Against Human Papilloma Virus Visual loss is a symptom that can occur from lesions anywhere along the visual pathways. Binocular visual loss can be further localized depending on the size and location of the scotoma identified on examination. Lesions affecting the chiasm, in particular, may produce bitemporal visual field loss [...]