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Penn State College of Medicine students provide assistance to refugees
In the produce aisles at Harrisburg’s Broad Street Market, six Penn State College of Medicine students in a “Food As Medicine” group are finding that an initiative to help recently resettled refugee...
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Honey entered into Farm Show contest
For centuries, people have suspected that honey could help with medical problems ranging from wound care to cough suppression. More recently, studies have proven some of those claims to be true. That’s...
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Grant to help address primary care physician shortage
A $2.4 million Human Resources Services Administration (HRSA) grant is a potential “game changer” for teaching medicine at Penn State College of Medicine and encouraging students to pursue careers in...
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Penn State College of Medicine MD/PhD student starts genetics research start-up
By Ashley Davidson Olivier Noel is only 28 years old, but he’s already changing the face of genetics research. The Haitian native is in his sixth year of Penn State College of Medicine’s MD/PhD Medical...
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Four Diamonds celebrates 40-year partnership with THON
By Ashley Davidson When Penn State students hit the dance floor for THON this Friday, Feb. 17 through Sunday, Feb. 19 at the Bryce Jordan Center, they’ll celebrate the culmination of a year-long...
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Researcher sees exercise as important aspect of cancer recovery
By Jade Kelly Solovey In a second floor, 300 square foot chemotherapy infusion suite in Penn State Cancer Institute are some dumbbells, some stretchy bands, two treadmills, a recumbent bike, a weight...
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Culinary Medicine: Teaching the importance of nutrition in medical school
By Jade Kelly Solovey During future physicians’ four years in medical school, they expect to be exposed to many different environments. They become acquainted with the emergency room, operating room,...
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Penn State Colorectal Diseases Biobank links genetics and colorectal cancer
By Heidi Lynn Russell What if your family’s DNA could become the blueprint for your very own precise and personalized treatment for colorectal cancer? Or, better yet, what if it could be used to help...
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Compassion + Science: Addiction research at Penn State College of Medicine
By Heidi Lynn Russell The conversation always starts the same way: “My son…” “My daughter…” “My grandchild…. has a drug problem.” And for years, researchers at Penn State College of Medicine have been...
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Newly-designed library illustrates modern education’s transformation
By Carolyn Kimmel Third-year medical students Nathan Wong, Anne Chen and Wilson Chan munched on lunch as they talked through their notes in a group study room at the Harrell Health Sciences Library,...
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Gowda receives 2017 Young Investigator Award
It’s been fewer than four years since Dr. Chandrika Gowda completed her fellowship with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Children’s Hospital, but she already has been...
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Inspired Together: A cancer survivor’s journey from patient to Boston...
By Carolyn Kimmel If someone had told Tim Harner a year ago that he would run in the Boston Marathon this month, he likely would have laughed – or cried— because the number one item on his bucket list...
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Team-based learning sets College of Medicine Physician Assistant Program apart
By Carolyn Kimmel Throughout college and graduate school, Amelia Poplawski learned very efficiently from her textbooks and lectures, so the first-year student in Penn State College of Medicine’s...
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Graduation begins a new chapter apart from each other for twins
By Carolyn Kimmel Mike and Mark Nakhla are used to receiving one invitation, not two, to friend gatherings, being mistaken for each other and called each other’s name by professors and even...
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Dr. Nancy Olsen works to advance understanding of lupus
By Ashley Davidson Over the last decade, a major question has interested Dr. Nancy Olsen: How can we stage an intervention for people who are at risk of developing lupus? Now thanks to a five-year...
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A hospital bed won’t keep these local high school grads from their diplomas
By Jennifer Vogelsong Kyle Vosburg didn’t expect he would spend the last three weeks of high school at Penn State Children’s Hospital. But the 18-year-old Mercersburg resident was diagnosed with...
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The case for innovation in healthcare through data
When Dr. Marco D. Huesch joined the faculty of Penn State College of Medicine’s Department of Radiology last July, he brought with him a passion for transforming data into innovations. Having spent a...
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Over 45 years of research addresses the science of ‘wasting away’
By Heidi Lynn Russell What happens in the research laboratories at Penn State College of Medicine doesn’t stay in the laboratories. It reaches to outer space, as adventurers blast off in rockets. It...
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More than medical needs: Four Diamonds provides social support
By Jade Kelly Solovey When a child is first diagnosed with cancer, the family may be scared and wonder how they will make it through. It’s during that time that the dedicated psychosocial team at Penn...
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‘Read me a story’– Bringing books to the youngest patients
By Heidi Lynn Russell With three children ages 2, 5 and 8, Dr. Daniel Schlegel has many-a-time answered a wistful call to “Read me a story, Daddy.” There is “nothing better” than snuggling with a child...
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