UPMC in the News

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Tuesday, August 14, 2012.UPMC sent letters to 2,000 patients according to boston.com this morning urging them to get tested for Hepatitis C. The hospital sent the letters in...

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Friday, August 10, 2012.On August 10, 2012 the New York Times published an article on the outbreak of hepatitis C in hospitals. The article, titled "Report Looks...

On August 10, 2012 the New York Times published an article on the outbreak of hepatitis C in hospitals. The article, titled "Report Looks at Hospital in Outbreak of Hepatitis," goes into detail on a former hospital technician, David Kwiatkowski,...

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Thursday, August 2, 2012.The arrest of David Kwiatkowski, a temporary radiologic technologist, for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C has shed a new light on...

The arrest of David Kwiatkowski, a temporary radiologic technologist, for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C has shed a new light on temporary workers across the nation.Kwiatkowski worked in 13 hospitals in eight states between January 2007 and...

A blog posted on NPR's Health Blog today, discussed the recent arrest of David Kwiatkowski in New Hampshire.  Kwiatkowski spent five years as a traveler working for staffing agencies before getting a full time job at Exeter Hospital in the...

A blog posted on NPR's Health Blog today, discussed the recent arrest of David Kwiatkowski in New Hampshire.  Kwiatkowski spent five years as a traveler working for staffing agencies before getting a full time job at Exeter Hospital in the...

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Saturday, July 28, 2012.ABC News is reporting that the New Hampshire hospital lab technician indicted last week for infecting 31 people with Hepatitis C might have infected...

ABC News is also reporting that "Hepatitis C 'Serial Infector' Could Have Spread Disease to Thousands." The report by Sydney Lupkin was posted to the ABC website on July 28, 2012 and indicates that "David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician...

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Thursday, July 26, 2012.CNN Posted a report on its website on July 26, 2012 indicating that a hospital technician has been allegedly spreading the hepatitis C virus...

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Wednesday, July 25, 2012.According to the WJLA News website, "A federal prosecutor said Tuesday he expects to bring more charges against a traveling medical technician accused of...

By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Thursday, July 19, 2012.According to CBS Boston, a medical tech has been arrested in connection with the recent Hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire. Reports claim that police arrested...