Mar 24, 2011
On a day when more than 140 fourth-year medical students learned where they will be going for their residencies, Jennifer Kissane was thrilled to find out that she’ll be staying […]
Mar 2, 2011
From Harvard to Arizona to the Midwest and back to his native Pennsylvania, Dr. Alan J. Gelenberg’s lifetime of academic, clinical, and community experiences has shaped his vision for the […]
Feb 22, 2011
The 2011 proceeds from THON—the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon—once again topped a previous record and raised a staggering $9.56 million to benefit The Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State […]
Feb 9, 2011
Faculty, staff, donors, and patients and their families helped us mark a milestone in the construction of the new home of Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital when they joined us […]
Dec 2, 2010
Some people claim that with the rapid growth of technological medicine, the patients’ perspective of their illness and care has been neglected. The Center for Humanistic Medicine (CHM) at Penn […]
Nov 1, 2010
Americans made more than one billion visits to doctors’ offices, emergency departments, and hospital outpatient offices in 2006—up 26 percent in a decade, according to the CDC. While these numbers […]
Sep 3, 2010
For new parents, caring for a crying baby can be very difficult, and often they are not aware of how frustrating it is until they are faced with a stressful […]
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 […]