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Physician Assistant Program students package 14,000 meals to combat hunger
By Jennifer Vogelsong A parade of physician assistant students filed into the University Conference Center at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Friday afternoon with sacks of soy...
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Pediatric cancer research thriving thanks to Four Diamonds
By Jade Kelly Solovey While outcomes for children diagnosed with cancer have improved greatly over the past five decades, one-in-five children will still die from their disease. In the United States,...
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Dr. Mack Ruffin: A career dedicated to research
By Heidi Lynn Russell Most people may not consider their family doctor to be a cancer prevention researcher. But Dr. Mack Ruffin IV balances one-on-one patient care with scientific sleuthing. When he’s...
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Carrots for Candy: The Great Boy Scout Experiment
How Penn State PRO Wellness is helping scouts make better food choices By Heidi Lynn Russell Summer camp can be rife with memories of telling ghost stories by crackling campfires, hiking through...
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Alex Smith: A Four Diamonds child pays it forward
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Treatment outcomes for children with cancer have made tremendous improvements over the past 50 years, but the reality is one in five children with cancer...
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Partnership targets farm safety among region’s Amish population
By Carolyn Kimmel Beyond the picturesque barns and horse-drawn buggies that define Pennsylvania Dutch Country lurk farm dangers that can land children in the hospital. Falling down hay holes in the...
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Summit to address health disparities in rural Appalachia
For those who live along the Appalachian mountain range, limited availability of health care services, low level of health insurance coverage, and behavioral risks, such as opioid addiction, are...
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Prestigious training grant extended five more years
By Heidi Lynn Russell Penn State College of Medicine has again been successful in extending funding from the National Cancer Institute through a training grant for vital research into viruses that...
View ArticleMeet the First Four Diamonds Patient: Denise Voloshin
By Marianne Clay Denise Voloshin, the first Four Diamonds patient, holds a school photo of herself from 1975, the year she was treated for cancer. Just days before this year’s Penn State...
View ArticleJust dance: Sweat, tears and stretching goes into two students’ journey to THON
By Lisa Maresca Clay Cooper has been stretching twice a day, every day for the past several weeks. The fifth-year MD/MBA student began running on the treadmill again and got as much sleep as he could....
View ArticleFrom One Cancer to Another
By Katherine Brind’Amour In all of the ways you might think of fighting cancer, perhaps one of the last things on your mind would be to turn one type of cancer into another. After all, who wants to...
View ArticleA Beacon of Excellence
It takes heart, soul, perseverance and empathy to care for critically ill patients. The nurses in the Surgical Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit (SAICU) at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical...
View ArticleCollege of Medicine Student Works to Improve Hygiene of Women and Girls in Nepal
Aditi Sharma, a student in the doctor of public health program at Penn State College of Medicine, wants to enhance the quality of life for women and girls living in Nepal through a program that...
View ArticleStrong Links in Chain of Survival Give Heart Attack Victim Second Chance
By Carolyn Kimmel When Penn State Children’s Hospital pediatrics nurse Marty Woodfin changed her walking routine from her neighborhood to the medical campus last July, she had no idea that decision...
View ArticleAre You Ready to Save a Life?
More than 50,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of the hospital each year, according to the American Heart Association. CPR, especially if administered immediately, can double or triple a person’s...
View ArticleMan’s Best Friend Puts Young Patients at Ease
By Marianne Clay Four-year-old “Jake” wails as he crumples into a corner. Ten feet away looms a large, box-like machine, a CT scanner. For the last half hour, Jake’s parents, a Child Life specialist...
View ArticlePenn State Health a National Model for Anti-Bias Policy Protecting Providers
By Gwen Newman Sometimes you make history quite unexpectedly. Such was the case for Dr. Hyma Polimera, an internist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center – and the hospital itself....
View ArticleThe future has arrived: new automated laboratory testing system speeds up...
By Katherine Brind’Amour When you go shopping for testing equipment responsible for churning out 5,000 or more specimens per day—some of which have life-changing or therapy-altering implications—you...
View ArticleEspenshade reflects on 35 years with Hershey Medical Center
By Lisa Maresca In October 1982, Epcot opened at Disney World, the USSR performed an underground nuclear test and Sue Espenshade started her career with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical...
View ArticleMusic and inspiration take center stage at Penn State Health Milton S....
By Michael Modes Music is a universal language. It can inspire, nurture and calm the soul beyond words. And at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, music is a soothing balm for patients,...
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