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College of Medicine has research stake in final space shuttle mission
When NASA’s final space shuttle mission begins, so will an experiment on bone density by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. They hope to learn more about the effects of microgravity on the...
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Episode 1 of “Medicine in Blue and White” series on Big Ten Network
“Medicine in Blue and White” is a new television series about Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the first medical information show to air on the Big Ten Network. The first episode of the...
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Meet Our Physician Families
Among the 143 members of the incoming Penn State College of Medicine class are three students who run the risk of eventually having mom or dad as a professor. That’s because the students have at least...
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Medical Center starts fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Women’s health procedures are some of the most common surgical procedures done in the United States. In women’s surgery, about 60 percent of procedures performed in the U.S. are done with an open...
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Penn State Hershey Life Lion: 25 years of critical care in the air
Penn State Hershey Life Lion Critical Care Transport is celebrating twenty-five years. The flight team reflects on how medical air services have changed and what’s ahead. Somewhere a car crashes and...
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FDA decides to revoke Avastin for breast cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn its approval of Avastin, a drug commonly used in patients with advanced breast cancer. Dr. Leah Cream, an assistant professor of medicine at Penn...
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Medicine In Blue and White: Episode 2
In this episode of “Medicine in Blue and White” as seen on the Big Ten Network: A high school athlete with a decision to make and a lot at stake. A retired cook meets the latest in surgical innovation....
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The journey of an IVC filter—from life-saving to life-altering
The medical journey that would lead Kaysee Kauer from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Hershey, Pennsylvania, began in the early morning hours of January 27, 2011. “I woke up feeling like my whole right...
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Introduction – Memories & Milestones
A new series of weekly video posts begins today. Over the next 19 weeks, you’ll see a segment from “Memories & Milestones” which documents stories of pioneering efforts from the first five decades...
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History of Hershey – Memories & Milestones
Part 2 – History of Hershey Milton S. Hershey created the town to serve as a town for the workers of his chocolate factory. The town of Hershey in the 1960′s was a community in transition. Feel free to...
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Beyond superheroes: Comics as a new genre for medical storytelling
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 and Medical...
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The Grand Idea – Memories & Milestones
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 Penn State. Film footage...
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Medicine in Blue and White: Episode 3
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 forty years. Combining aerospace...
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The 50 Million Dollar Phone Call – Memories & Milestones
Part 4 – The 50 Million Dollar Phone Call One phone call changed a farm field into a college of medicine and medical center. Feel free to share these posts with your colleagues, friends and family....
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Getting it Done – Memories & Milestones
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 community would have to be...
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Researchers lead the way in important retrovirus research
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...
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Penn State CTSI aims to push research findings to the people
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...
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An Interview with E. Eugene Marsh, M.D.
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 of...
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When the doctor becomes the patient
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...
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Studies aim to improve outcomes for trauma critical care patients
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 millions of...
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