Are you up-to-date? Penn State Health colorectal screening survey gains...
By Carolyn Kimmel Life could look a lot different for Mike Hamonko than it does, thanks to a screening colonoscopy that many people turning 50—the recommended age for average-risk screening—dread and...
View ArticleTaking PULSE: on 10th anniversary, educational outreach program gets more...
By Bill Landauer Three high school students sat in the front row of a Penn State College of Medicine lecture hall and listened to Madison Goss. They actually paid attention. That can be rare in a room...
View ArticlePenn State Health doctors help Ephrata baby born with rare condition breathe...
There was nothing unusual about Natasha Himes’s seventh pregnancy or delivery. Like her previous six, both were easy and uncomplicated. While all of her other children were born in a hospital, the...
View ArticleFrom medical education to medical controversies, humanities are key, new...
By Carolyn Kimmel Few medical schools have a humanities department, which makes Penn State College of Medicine — the first medical school in the nation to institute a humanities department — the...
View ArticleTwenty years in medical school? What’s so mini about that?
By Bill Landauer In her seat near the front of Junker Auditorium at Penn State College of Medicine, Ruth Miller chuckled. Teams of her younger classmates were using CPR to revive two mannequins...
View ArticleSee Me Now: Program reunites patients and emergency department doctors
By Carolyn Kimmel Edward Frederick plans to retire soon with full use of both legs – something for which he will always be grateful to staff at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and...
View ArticleNational Brain Bee creates buzz for next generation of neuroscientists
By Carolyn Kimmel Thussentham Walter-Angelo remembers the question from a second-grade school report: What do you want to be when you grow up? His answer then was the same as today – a neurosurgeon. “I...
View ArticleIn your corner: Pediatric Complex Care team advocates for children with...
By Carolyn Kimmel Ask Dina Gonzalez about her son Alejandro’s diagnosis, and she has no specific answer. The list of health challenges the 10-year-old boy faces, however, numbers at least eight items –...
View ArticleAn artificial heart saved my life: LVAD patients and families share stories...
By Bonnie Adams Al Dolatoski felt short of breath and just didn’t feel well on Dec. 16, so his wife took him to an area hospital. There, he suffered a massive heart attack and underwent emergency heart...
View ArticleWhen the patient is the teacher, the lesson is compassion
By Carolyn Kimmel Matthew Chapman was nervous – even scared – when he thought about meeting his first patient face-to-face. The first-year Penn State College of Medicine student soon found out he had...
View ArticleFirst-year medical students provide hands-on care to people of Panama
By Jennifer Vogelsong Grant Wandling had never left the U.S. before an April trip that had him sleeping in hammocks, making due with no running water and providing medical care to the indigenous Ngabe...
View ArticleAnd the beat goes on…heart transplant patients, surgeons reunite
By Carolyn Kimmel To Constance Murray, heart transplantation sounded like something out of science fiction movie – one she certainly didn’t care to star in. It was 1986, and Murray had struggled for...
View Article‘Amazing experience.’ Penn State Health physician leads medical team at 2019...
By Jen Vogelsong As team physician for Penn State’s football and softball teams, Dr. Peter Seidenberg is used to making on-the-spot medical calls – but none quite like the life-changing decisions he...
View ArticleSpinal trauma patient views injury as just another steep hill to climb
By Bill Landauer Spinal trauma never saw Cody Wills coming. To Wills, life is one long and winding race track, complete with steep hills, hairpin turns and times to beat. So when he found out eight...
View ArticleNew man at the tiller
By Bill Landauer Steve Massini’s vision has been an integral part of Penn State Health’s growth. His input helped create the partnerships and make the decisions that have shifted a central Pennsylvania...
View ArticlePenn State Medicine transitions to Penn State Health newsroom
Thank you for subscribing to Penn State Medicine. We continue to evaluate our content channels for Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine and are no longer updating this site. Our...
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Penn State Health, College of Medicine employees show they care
It’s a safe bet there were some sore muscles over the weekend among the 53 volunteers from Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine who participated in the United Way’s 27th Annual Day of...
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Children’s Hospital team helps make Jonas Brothers visit possible
Pop rock band the Jonas Brothers made a surprise visit to one young patient at Penn State Children’s Hospital on Aug. 31: Watch the video on Facebook. It all started when 16-year-old Lily Jordan, of...
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Retreat provides networking opportunity for graduate students, faculty
First-year graduate students got a taste of the research going on at Penn State College of Medicine during the Faculty and Student Research Retreat Aug. 6 at the Antique Auto Museum in Hershey. They...
View ArticleRight place, right time: Weidler saves man’s life after heart attack
Glenn Weidler was enjoying dinner with his wife and in-laws at the Timbers Restaurant in Mount Gretna on Aug. 23 when he heard a thump behind him. The surgical technologist at Penn State Health Milton...
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