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University of Pittsburgh officials recently announced the opening of a new Office of Sustainability in the Health Sciences.

<p>Spinal cord stimulation can elicit sensation in the missing foot and alleviate phantom limb pain, improving the quiality of life and making walking easier, Nature Biomedical Engineering study reports.</p>

Housing that fails to meet the needs of people with disabilities may have far-reaching consequences. Living situations that impede independence and community integration, for example, can adversely affect health and wellbeing over the long term.

Neuralink, a company bankrolled by billionaire Elon Musk, this week unveiled a new design for a brain-computer interface that it had tested in animals. Nathan Copeland is one of the few human beings who already has a working interface. He broke his spine in a car accident and is paralyzed from the chest down. In…

Last year, the system took steps to formalize its green initiatives, starting in the C-suite. Now those initiatives are coming to fruition.