Jul 10, 2020
Several Harrell Health Sciences Library team members have been involved in recent projects.
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.
People’s expectations for compensation and control may increase as they become more aware of privacy concerns and the ways in which genomic database companies are profiting from their data, according to researchers at Penn State and Cornell University.
Penn State Health and College of Medicine update their travel policy with processes regarding specific scenarios where asymptomatic employees have access to COVID-19 testing at the employees’ request through Employee Health.
Jul 9, 2020
Vemos y escuchamos nuevas noticias COVID-19 casi cada minuto del día. Pero separar los hechos de la ficción puede ser un desafío, especialmente cuando se trata de máscaras. Rompemos algunos mitos comunes de máscaras con dos expertos en Salud de Penn State.
We see and hear new COVID-19 news almost every minute of the day. But separating facts from fiction can get challenging, especially when it comes to masks. We bust some common mask myths with two Penn State Health experts.
Jul 8, 2020
A collaboration between Penn State College of Engineering and the Center for Medical Innovation at Penn State College of Medicine may lead to a useful tool for physicians at Penn State Health during the COVID-19 pandemic – disposable stethoscopes.
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 7, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people wear face coverings in public settings when around people outside of their household, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. Wearing a face mask is a simple way to help slow the spread of COVID-19 but there is a lot of misinformation about wearing a mask. Learn more from Dr. Jessica Ericson, pediatric infectious disease physician at Penn State Health Children's Hospital.
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.
