Aug 18, 2021
His family in Ethiopia is far away, but Tadesse Bogale says the people and working environment have made him feel at home as a pharmacy technician at Hershey Medical Center.
Aug 17, 2021
Black COVID-19 patients are more likely to have experienced strokes prior to their diagnosis than their non-Black counterparts, according to a study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers. They said this may be one explanation for why COVID-19 mortality has been high in Black populations.
Aug 11, 2021
Dr. Forest Lai, an internal medicine resident at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, was honored in August 2021 as part of the Exceptional Moments in Teaching program.
Aug 10, 2021
Penn State Health has seen the diversity of Penn State Health’s senior leaders climb dramatically since requiring interviews for all manager or higher-level positions and faculty/physician positions to include candidates from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds and genders.
Aug 9, 2021
James Broach, director of the Institute for Personalized Medicine, was part of a research team that designed the first synthetic circuit made entirely of fast, reversible interactions between proteins.
Dr. Steven Schiff, professor of neurosurgery at Penn State College of Medicine, and a multi-institution research team have developed normalized growth curve charts for the brain.
College of Medicine researchers were part of a multi-country collaboration to develop a COVID-19 surveillance modeling tool that provides a weekly projection of expected COVID-19 cases in African countries.
Aug 4, 2021
As a participant in clinical trials, Beckie is helping doctors and researchers test the effectiveness of new treatments for PCOS.
The best way for smokers to reduce their risk of developing lung cancer is to stop smoking. But there’s another important effort that can save their lives: getting screened.
Dr. Charles Mormando is featured for August in the “Exceptional Moments in Teaching” program.
