Jun 12, 2020
Penn State Health and the College of Medicine will present a series of town halls during the next two weeks as part of the organization’s renewed commitment to create respectful, inclusive work and patient care environments.
More than 2,000 Penn State College of Medicine faculty, staff and students participated in an eye-opening town hall on race relations. The college also held a nine-minute silent kneeling observation as part of a White Coats for Black Lives event.
Jun 10, 2020
Penn State College of Medicine Epidemiology PhD student Paddy Ssentongo, MD, MPH, presented research on three separate health topics during the American Society for Nutrition’s 2020 virtual annual conference.
Jun 6, 2020
Aditi Sharma, a Doctor of Public Health student at Penn State College of Medicine, received an Excellence in Community Service award from Penn State Health for her leadership efforts in providing COVID-19 support to the local Nepali-speaking Bhutanese population.
Jun 5, 2020
The Phone-A-Friend program connects Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center patients with College of Medicine students for friendly virtual check-ins.
May 30, 2020
Six new residents are selected each year for Penn State College of Medicine's resident chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
May 29, 2020
In a new study, Penn State researchers from the Department of Public Health Sciences examine the impact that out-of-pocket expenses could have on treatment retention for those with opioid-use disorders.
May 28, 2020
The Human Research Protection Program at Penn State has once again been awarded full accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but the spotlight turned to mental health much earlier this spring as experts from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Penn State College of Medicine offered many resources to employees suddenly thrust into the middle of a global pandemic.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has enrolled its first patients in the continuation of a clinical trial using the investigational antiviral drug remdesivir for treatment of COVID-19.
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