Feb 9, 2012
Can a hormone decrease the brain damage caused by a blow to the head? Is there a better way to treat people with life-threatening seizures? Answers to these questions could provide hope to […]
There are, of course, easier ways to bond with one’s patients. When asked what was a normal-appearing post-open heart surgery scar, many doctors would show the patient a photograph or do a simple […]
Feb 8, 2012
In January 2011, E. Eugene Marsh, M.D., became the first senior associate dean of the Penn State College of Medicine Regional Medical Campus in University Park, where he will drive the College […]
As a physician on the front line of the obesity and diabetes epidemics gripping the United States, Urs Leuenberger, M.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Penn State Hershey […]
Feb 7, 2012
Penn State researchers and Rebecca Craven, Ph.D., and Leslie Parent, M.D., are involved with separate research projects, but they often find themselves fielding the same question: “Why are you studying a virus that’s […]
Part 5 – Getting it Done Dr. John O. Hershey, President of The Milton Hershey School, was the driving force keeping the project moving ahead. The infrastructure of the local […]
Jan 31, 2012
Part 4 – The 50 Million Dollar Phone Call One phone call changed a farm field into a college of medicine and medical center. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKQGhCDLvXo] Feel free to share these […]
Jan 26, 2012
In this episode of “Medicine in Blue and White”: The incredible connection between one fourteen year old boy — and the thousands of people he has helped over the past […]
Jan 24, 2012
Part 3 – The Grand Idea Sam Hinkle, President of Hershey Chocolate Corporation, was the driving force in envisioning the Medical Center and getting all the pieces in place with […]
Jan 19, 2012
Penn State College of Medicine may be the only place in the country where a fourth year medical student can take an elective Humanities course about comics titled “Graphic Storytelling […]
