April Featured Story – World Health Day 2017: Depression

World Health Day 2017 is on Friday, April 7th, and the theme this year is Depression: Let’s Talk. Depression is a reality for 350 million people around the world, and 16 million American adults. Depression is defined by the World Health Organization as an illness characterized by persistent sadness...

March Featured Story – Women’s History Month: Health & Medicine

The month of March brings with it the celebration of Women’s History Month. The field of medicine is growing and while in the past women were drastically underrepresented, the latest numbers posted by the American Association of Medical Colleges in 2010 state that just shy of half (48.3%) of medical degrees...

March Featured Story – March is National Nutrition Month!

March is National Nutrition Month, and Metro Community Health Center would like to take this opportunity to share with you some recipes that promote health. If you try one of the following recipes and post a picture to one of our social media accounts, we will enter you into a...

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Pittsburgh Physician Awarded for LGBT, HIV Work

Pittsburgh, PA – Metro Community Health Center is proud to announce that a member of our team, Dr. Martin Seltman, received the 2016 Outstanding Primary Care Clinician – Special Population Category from Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers. Martin Seltman is presented the Primary Care Excellence (APEX) Outstanding Primary...

Hospitals helping children cope with gender ID issues

By Mackenzie Carpenter / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette They come in the door as early as age 6: a boy who knows she’s a girl, a girl who knows he’s a boy. Or they’re not quite sure either way, but feel uncertainty, pain and confusion about the gender they were assigned...