Sep 10, 2020
Anna E. Ssentongo, a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student at Penn State College of Medicine, has been selected to give a presentation on non-accidental trauma during the seventh annual meeting of the Pediatric Trauma Society, which will be held virtually in November.
Sep 6, 2020
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has selected Fang Chen, a Penn State Biostatistics postdoctoral researcher, as a semifinalist for the 2020 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research.
Sep 4, 2020
A Penn State College of Medicine graduate student and Department of Neurology faculty member are part of a team of researchers examining patients' incidence and risk of seizures after acute stroke reperfusion therapy.
Aug 27, 2020
Penn State College of Medicine welcomed more than 100 new graduate students on Aug. 17. They will study to obtain degrees in anatomy, biomedical science, biostatistics, clinical research, epidemiology, laboratory animal medicine, neuroscience and public health.
Aug 15, 2020
Two opioid-related research projects from Penn State College of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences were featured during AcademyHealth's annual research meeting, which took place virtually from July 28 to Aug. 6, 2020, due to COVID-19.
Aug 12, 2020
Pregnant women from sub-Saharan Africa with malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a higher prevalence of anemia than pregnant women without infections according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Jul 17, 2020
Penn State is one of 15 institutions participating in a national collaboration to turn data from hundreds of thousands of medical records from coronavirus patients into effective treatments and predictive tools.
Jul 10, 2020
Chachrit Khunsriraksakul, an MD/PhD student at Penn State College of Medicine, received the 2020 Finkelstein Memorial Student Research Award. The award, named after the late Judy S. Finkelstein, was established for students at Penn State College of Medicine who are performing research on immunologic or rheumatologic diseases.
Jul 8, 2020
Women who deliver their first child by cesarean section (C-section) are less likely to conceive a second child than those who deliver vaginally, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Jul 6, 2020
Pennsylvania could benefit from implementing statewide guidelines for defining patient navigation and specifying the roles and responsibilities of patient navigators in cancer care, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
