Aug 17, 2010
By the time lung cancer is diagnosed, it’s often too far along to cure. Right now, lung cancer kills more Americans than any other kind of cancer. Still, David Mu, […]
Aug 16, 2010
The Simulation Development and Cognitive Science Lab moved into the second floor of the George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library in January 2010. The new space more than doubled the […]
Jul 2, 2010
As many of the day-shift employees are just arriving, still shaking off the morning grog and sipping coffee, Kevin Staveley-O’Carroll, MD, Ph.D., is already in surgical scrubs and doing something […]
Early children’s hospitals were places to keep sick kids comfortable, administer medicine, and take vital signs. There wasn’t a lot of hands-on healing happening. Instead, the main duty of the […]
When talk turns to critical health issues among women, common issues such as the appropriateness of the recent controversial mammography guidelines get the most attention. However, an often overlooked health […]
Jul 1, 2010
Dan McDougal, MD, ’71, passed away on May 10, from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). The story below was written just before his passing. When he was a young child, the […]
Students at medical schools everywhere have their up and down days. They listen to lectures and try to make sense of hundreds of new concepts sent their way in a […]
To really appreciate this story, we have to start at the end—simply put, there are people alive today because of a discovery made by an oncology fellow in the mid […]
In the wake of an autism diagnosis−one of the most puzzling of human conditions−a family’s journey to create order out of chaos begins. Researchers estimate that as many as one […]
With an artistic eye and a knack for photography, Peter Houts, PhD, brought the beauty and splendor of the Hershey Gardens into the halls of the new Penn State Hershey […]