Topics: Rural Health

A person’s hand is surrounded by three types of healthy food, kale to the left, tomatoes above and broccoli to the right. Also shown are diabetes-testing strips, a container of strips and a glucose-testing device and electronic monitor, which displays a blood-sugar level of 93.

Diabetes disparities: Penn State Health diabetes specialist works to improve health equity

Mar 20, 2024

No one wants to hear the “Big D” diagnosis—diabetes. If you’re a person of color, diabetes management may be affected by limited access to technology, increasing risk of complications.

A doctor explains a colonoscopy result to a patient.

The Medical Minute: Colon cancer rates higher in rural areas

Mar 14, 2024

Technology to stop or prevent colon cancer keeps improving. Still, incident rates remain more stubborn in rural areas than urban centers. The dean of Penn State College of Medicine talks about the barriers.

Penn State College of Medicine crescent building shown from above in an image taken by drone

Penn State College of Medicine, partners receive grant to improve health, environment in disadvantaged communities

Dec 20, 2023

Penn State College of Medicine has been selected to receive a $1.19 million pollution-prevention grant to improve human health and the environment in disadvantaged communities.

Penn State College of Medicine crescent building shown from above in an image taken by drone

College of Medicine receives funding to improve health and prevent chronic disease in central Pennsylvania

Oct 26, 2023

Penn State College of Medicine received $1 million from the CDC for the first year in the five-year Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health program.

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Penn State addresses rural health through community informed research, outreach

Oct 11, 2023

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Penn State College of Medicine are leading the way in improving health for rural Pennsylvanians through research, education and community outreach.

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Black bisexual women in rural areas are at highest risk for suicidal behaviors

Sep 26, 2023

Penn State College of Medicine researchers said they conducted a “first-of-its-kind study,” revealing how various demographic factors intersect to affect a person’s risk of having suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

Sol Rodríguez-Colón, center, seen here with women from the Latino Hispanic American Community Center in Harrisburg, helps communities of central Pennsylvania in the fight against cancer by arming them with education and resources to prevent and seek screening or treatment for the disease.

Alumna, Cancer Institute staff member advances health equity in central PA

Sep 13, 2023

Sol Rodríguez-Colón, a 2008 graduate of Penn State College of Medicine and project manager at Penn State Cancer Institute, helps Hispanic/Latino communities in the fight against cancer.

Karen Kim, MD, poses in front of the nittany lion statue in the courtyard outside Penn State College of Medicine.

A New Era Begins: Karen E. Kim, MD, MS, is Dean of Penn State College of Medicine

Sep 1, 2023

Karen E. Kim, MD, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Rural Health Research and Professor, started her tenure as dean of the College of Medicine on Sept. 1.

A group of medical students at Penn State College of Medicine gather for a group photo at a community outreach event on Saturday, Jan. 28 in Lykens.

Penn State College of Medicine students receive grant to expand mobile free clinic to underserved communities

Mar 20, 2023

A mobile free clinic driven by medical students from Penn State College of Medicine received a grant that will expand its services.