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May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, reminding us of the dangers of skin cancer and the…

Population Health

Vascular surgery consultations offered at Exeter Outpatient Center beginning May 15

Penn State Health Exeter Outpatient Center in Exeter Township will expand its specialty services to include…

Chronic Disease

Penn State Health OnDemand offers fast, convenient care during winter illness surge

As the number of cases of COVID, RSV, influenza and other wintertime respiratory illnesses continues to…

Artificial Intelligence

Penn State places fourth out of 31 teams in global health competition

College of Medicine Global Health Scholar competition participants: Jasmine Mackley, Belle Peterson, Samantha Murphy, Samuel Jump,…

Quality Of Care

Advanced Practice Provider Spotlight: Nurse midwife shares insights on caring for diverse patients

Jennifer Pagani-Smith, a nurse midwife at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Advanced practice providers (APPs) play…

Analytics Infrastructure

April 27 | Dispose of medications safely on National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

Penn State Health will collect unwanted, unneeded or expired medication for safe disposal on Saturday, April…

Chronic Disease

Take the hospital home: Program allows people to recover in their own beds

Dr. Kamia Thakur virtually visits with patient Mildred Shelly. Florence Gordon, who spent her career as…

Machine Learning

The Medical Minute: Supervised exercise therapy eases symptoms of peripheral artery disease

Patricia Creque, a graduate of the supervised exercise therapy program at Penn State Health Spring Ridge…

Medical Research

Center for the Protection of Children has launched free, updated child abuse training