Feb 15, 2016
Penn State College of Medicine's Dr. Jennifer Kraschnewski, assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences, has received $2.2 million in funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to […]
Feb 10, 2016
Physicians use different definitions of “reasonable medical certainty” when testifying as expert witnesses in child abuse cases.
Dec 21, 2015
Understanding how tiny molecular motors called myosins use energy to fuel biological tasks like contracting muscles could lead to therapies for muscle diseases and cancers, say a team of researchers […]
Dec 17, 2015
An MRI contrast agent that can pass through the blood-brain barrier will allow doctors to detect deadly brain tumors called gliomas earlier, say Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Dec 14, 2015
Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, working with Chinese and American colleagues, have discovered a novel way to enhance and restore cancer suppressor activity in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, […]
Dec 2, 2015
Electronic cigarettes produce highly-reactive free radicals – molecules associated with cell damage and cancer – and may pose a health risk to users, according to researchers at Penn State College […]
Nov 24, 2015
People with bipolar disorder have lower levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids that cross the blood-brain barrier compared to those who do not, according to researchers from Penn State College […]
Sep 16, 2015
An 18 percent increase in research funding and a prestigious National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award highlight the fiscal year 2015 research mission accomplishments at Penn State Milton S. Hershey […]
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is one of 60 centers chosen to evaluate the Thoratec® HeartMate III Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), in the MOMENTUM III Clinical Trial.
Sep 10, 2015
Targeting exhausted immune cells may change the prognosis for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) relapse after a stem cell transplant, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.