June 2020 Est. 1985
The Northside Chronicle
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The Community Newspaper of Pittsburgh’s Historic Northside
Device created by Northside doctor shows promise in treating COVID-19 patients By Emery Malachowski Eighty-eight percent of COVID-19 patients in the New York City area who were placed on mechanical ventilators died, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Hemolung may have the potential to help. Created by Northside resident Dr. William Federspiel at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, the Hemolung is a device that can work either as an alternative to or in conjunction with mechanical ventilators. Patients with “stiff lungs,” said Federspiel in an interview with The Northside Chronicle, such as many COVID-19 patients, may be at a higher risk for inflammation and injury from mechanical ventilators, which push air into and out of the lungs with fairly high “driving pressure.”
Photos by Phelan Newman
Ganon Jones Jr., left, and Duke Davis, right, make up the wrestling tag team The Mane Event (TME). Northside resident and costume designer Suz Pisano designed and altered their first custom, ring-ready gear as a duo. Read the full story below.
Suz Pisano takes the wheel How the award-winning Northside designer went from making hair accessories in a spare bedroom of her home to hand picking her clientele
By Hallie Lauer
Photo courtesy of ALung Technologies Inc.
Eighty-eight percent of COVID-19 patients in the New York City area who were placed on mechanical ventilators died, according to a recent study. The Hemolung could help. See Hemolung, Page 6
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Nearly 30 years ago, Suz Pisano began making barrettes and scrunchies in a spare bedroom in her home. Despite earning a master’s degree in education and working in the field of criminal justice, she knew that fashion design was what she was meant to do, even if it took a bit of hard work to get there. “I knew that I didn’t want to be a dentist,” Pisano said. “Not that I couldn’t
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have done it, but I didn’t want to do it.” When she was growing up, it was her father who desperately wanted her to go into dentistry, and her family who stressed how important it was for her to go to college. Pisano knew it wasn’t the path for her, though, and in time, developed her artistic talents and products enough to start selling at craft shows, and eventually, at what she referred to as “more high end” arts festivals. “My mom always said to me, ‘There’s
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a big difference between can and want: If you want to do it, you’ll do anything,’” Pisano said. “That’s pretty much the story of any artist: If you wanna do it bad enough, you’re gonna do it.” Her first arts festival was the Shadyside Arts Festival, and it was her now-husband who paid her entrance fee, despite the fact that they had only recently begun to date. “My mom always told me that people
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See Suz, Page 9