Month: March 2024

No one wants to hear the “Big D” diagnosis—diabetes. It’s a disease that means new medication,…

Chronic Disease

FDA approves pediatric neuroblastoma drug based on Penn State College of Medicine professor’s work

Giselle Saulnier Sholler, MD, center front, the new division chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, and…

Machine Learning

The Medical Minute: Colon cancer rates higher in rural areas

For health care professionals, it’s maddening. March 14, 2024Penn State Health News The technology needed to…

Quality Of Care

Yee receives Holy Spirit Medical Center’s BEE Award

Htwe Yee celebrates her BEE (Be Extraordinary Every day) Award with Brynn Strine, nurse manager, Cardiac…

Population Health

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s heart transplant survival rate highest in the state

More than 94% of all patients who receive a heart transplant at Penn State Health Milton…

Chronic Disease

Penn State College of Medicine, partners receive grant to improve health, environment in disadvantaged communities

Penn State College of Medicine has been selected to receive a $1.19 million pollution-prevention grant to…

Machine Learning

The Medical Minute: The journey to relieve endometriosis pain

Some women spend as much as a month of every year in so much pain they…

Medical Research

College of Medicine receives $20M grant to research alternative tobacco products

Penn State College of Medicine received a five-year, $20 million federal grant to investigate the harmful…

Quality Of Care

Dr. Roger Ladda, Penn State College of Medicine professor emeritus, dies at 87