Aug 7, 2018
An intervention designed to promote healthy growth that taught first-time moms how to respond with age-appropriate responses to their babies' needs resulted in children having lower body mass indexes (BMIs) when they were three years old.
Aug 3, 2018
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded the Penn State MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program supplemental funding to provide professional development training for MD/PhD students.
Aug 1, 2018
First-year Penn State College of Medicine medical students, including those pursuing their MD and MD/PhD degrees, received their first white medical coats on July 27.
Jul 31, 2018
Biomedical Sciences graduate student Robert Nwokonko traveled to Lindau, Germany, for the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June 2018.
Jul 30, 2018
Two Penn State College of Medicine professors, Dr. Erika Saunders and Dr. Patricia Silveyra, were selected to join prestigious programs for leaders in science and at academic health institutions.
Jul 26, 2018
Dr. Elliot Vesell, founding chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and assistant dean of graduate studies at Penn State College of Medicine, passed away July 23, 2018.
Students from the Penn State Global Health Exchange Program met with representatives of the Wolf Administration to discuss the importance of public health in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Thomas Ma became chair of the Department of Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in January 2018.
Jul 25, 2018
Patients' perceptions of the hospital they're being treated in may be improved by the type of artwork hanging in hospital rooms, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Jul 23, 2018
Two current drugs used to treat psychosis and depression showed anti-cancer activity in mice by blocking the movement of cholesterol within drug-resistant cancer cells, according to Penn State Cancer Institute researchers.
