Dec 19, 2012
Work done by Penn State College of Medicine's Joyce Tombran-Tink to identify a potential treatment for diabetic retinopathy was recently awarded $200,000 through the University City Science Center's QED Proof-of-Concept […]
Dec 18, 2012
The spread of cancer cells may be slowed by targeting the protein km23-1, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine.
Dec 14, 2012
In a typical school year, it takes the nurses of the Lebanon School District four months to conduct health screenings of the entire student body. This year, that effort is […]
In the wake of the tragic shootings at a Connecticut elementary school, Dr. Lynn Taylor, director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, […]
Dec 13, 2012
Antibiotics are used to treat a wide range of illnesses – including some they're not equipped to fight. The unnecessary prescriptions are often a result of undue pressures placed on […]
Dec 12, 2012
Holy Spirit Cardiovascular Institute and Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute have signed a collaborative agreement for cardiac and thoracic surgery.
Dec 10, 2012
Overweight women are not receiving proper advice on healthy weight gains or appropriate exercise levels during their pregnancies, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Dec 6, 2012
Penn State College of Medicine received a $3.9 million award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health for research to find biomarkers for Parkinson's disease.
In 1985, contracting HIV would have been a death sentence, with only a matter of time to the onset of AIDS and ultimately death. In 2012, that same diagnosis, caught […]
Dec 5, 2012
Santa Claus took time out of his busy schedule to talk with patients at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.
