Mar 23, 2022
More than half of people with diabetes will develop diabetic retinopathy, one of the leading causes of legal blindness in the U.S., yet fewer than half of patients with diabetes get their annual screenings.
Mar 21, 2022
Hershey Medical Center has hired two in-house Spanish interpreters to improve the patient and staff experience.
Mar 18, 2022
Fourth-year medical students took part in Match Day, an annual tradition where students find out which residency programs they will join to complete the next phase of their training.
Gifts to Children’s Miracle Network at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital totaled $73,646 during Penn State Health Children’s Week, a virtual fundraising week held March 7-11.
Mar 16, 2022
Endometriosis, an inflammatory condition affecting 10% of women, causes severe pelvic pain and other complications. There’s no way to prevent it, but treatments are available to help manage the pain.
Dr. Michael Reihart has been tapped to serve as director of emergency services at Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center.
Mar 15, 2022
Children with insomnia symptoms are likely to carry them through young adulthood and are more likely to develop an insomnia disorder in early adulthood, according to College of Medicine researchers.
College of Medicine researchers are working to improve the process for diagnosing abusive head trauma in children by testing a new clinical decision rule.
Mar 14, 2022
Dr. Chandrika Gowda, associate professor of pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, has been selected as the new director of the Penn State Physician-Scientist Training Program.
College of Medicine researchers have joined Penn State's Geroscience and Dementia Prevention Consortium in order to accelerate research into preventing or delaying age-related neurodegeneration.