LET'S CHANGE THE WAY THE WORLD TREATS WOMEN
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Since 1992, Magee-Womens has led the charge for women's health research. With over 30 years of operation, Magee-Womens holds over 30 research units studying 300+ conditions in women's health and reproductive biology. Your monthly support advances life-changing discoveries and brings cutting-edge treatments to UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital. Be the change women’s health needs.
Join Team Magee at the 2025 DICK’S Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon!
With events for all ages and abilities on May 3 & 4, 2025—there’s something for everyone. Choose Magee-Womens as your official charity, and you’ll even earn a refund on your registration fees! Register to support women's health today.
In Partnership with UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
Located right across the street from Magee-Womens Research Institute, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital is one of the nation’s top hospitals specializing in gynecologic and obstetric services. UPMC Magee also combines a wealth of specialty services for men and women, including cardiology, geriatrics, urology, bone and joint, and bariatric surgery.
From woman-controlled HIV protection to therapies that could prevent the recurrence of ovarian cancer, we are helping to solve real-world problems and impacting women’s lives. And the potential is boundless. Anything is possible when the country’s largest women’s research institute partners with a world-class women’s hospital.
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We accelerate discoveries in stem and germ cell biology to unlock the mysteries—and enormous medical potential—of the very beginnings of life.
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We study maternal health and fetal and placental development to ensure healthy mothers and babies. And those first nine months can actually affect our entire lives.
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Hundreds of millions of women are affected every year. We are developing new therapies for STDs, including a groundbreaking study that is putting women in control of preventing HIV.
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From family planning and safer contraception to postmenopausal health, we focus on the incredible and sometimes challenging adventure that is a woman’s life.
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Treatments for infertility are safer and more effective than ever. And major breakthroughs are coming that will help even more couples who are struggling to conceive.
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What if there was a vaccine for ovarian cancer? Here, we are making tremendous strides in the detection, treatment and yes, prevention of women’s cancers.
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We study behavioral science, patient-provider communication and health service outcomes to improve access to affordable, quality health care for women—especially women at risk.
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Women are Different Than Men.
From how they present symptoms to the way their brains work. The thing is, most research has sidestepped sex differences, studying men and applying the findings to women.
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