Jun 7, 2017
Penn State College of Medicine welcomed 30 new students into its Physician Assistant Program recently at the program's annual White Coat Ceremony.
Jun 5, 2017
Room sharing between babies and mothers beyond the first four months is associated with less sleep for babies and unsafe sleeping practices, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
May 31, 2017
Penn State College of Medicine researchers have shown, for the first time, a possible correlation between the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and thyroid cancers in the counties surrounding the plant.
May 30, 2017
Scientists could be one step closer to developing long-awaited vaccines against viruses such as Zika, West Nile or HIV, thanks to research at Penn State College of Medicine.
May 17, 2017
The Farmers Market in Hershey and Summer Concert Series begins its eighth season from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 18 with a community arts fest.
The 2017 Research Recognition Awards, presented May 29, honored Penn State College of Medicine investigators in a variety of areas.
A new $2.4 million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology by using "big data" has been established at Penn State, with nearly $1.4 million in funding from the National Library of Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and more than $1 million from the University.
Sometimes referred to as "the flipped classroom," team-based learning encourages the student to develop deep thinking and teamwork skills that are especially important in an increasingly team-based approach to medicine. The approach is used extensively in Penn State College of Medicine's physician assistant program.
May 11, 2017
An international team of researchers reveals how immune cells called macrophages activate to kill parasitic worms. The findings could lead to better drugs to fight common infections.
May 10, 2017
Cynthia H. Chuang, MD, MSc, professor of medicine and public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, discussed contraceptive use before, during and after the Affordable Care Act during the 2017 Spring Dean's Lecture held May 9, 2017.