May 28, 2020
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.
May 27, 2020
In the rush to adjust to a work-from-home lifestyle, some people have made choices regarding sleep that are leaving them bleary-eyed morning, noon and night. A Penn State Health expert offers nine tips to reclaim a good night’s sleep.
The Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Labor have granted a few temporary benefit extensions due to COVID-19 for qualifying life events, COBRA health insurance, health care flexible spending accounts and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
After nearly 14 years of service through an extended period of transformation for Penn State Health, Alan Brechbill, executive vice president of hospital operations, has announced plans to retire effective July 31, 2020.
While Penn State Health gradually resumes many of its operations after nearly two months of restrictions, the progress of Penn State Health Children's Hospital expansion project remains on track for a Fall 2020 completion.
The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) honored two Hershey Medical Center doctors for excellence and their contributions in advancing knowledge and patient care.
A frantic phone call to her neighbor triggered a team response that saved Marie Conley’s life when Hershey Medical Center nurse Kaitlin Snook arrived in time to deliver a lifesaving dose of steroids.
May 26, 2020
Center Stage Arts in Health provides a cache of creative support to help Penn State Health and College of Medicine staff cope with the COVID-19 upheaval ― from musical greetings to inspirational driveway art signs, art kits and more.
Faculty and staff at Penn State College of Medicine are leading or represented on more than one-third of COVID-19 research proposals awarded funding by Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
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