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Hershey Medical Center, nurses reach new contract
More than 2,000 registered nurses represented by SEIU have ratified a new contract with Milton S. Hershey Medical Center that reaffirms the hospital’s reputation as an employer of choice for nu...
https://www.psu.edu/news/hershey/story/hershey-medical-center-nurses-reach-new-contract
The Medical Minute: Supervised exercise eases peripheral artery disease symptoms
Supervised exercise therapy allows a Wyomissing woman with peripheral artery disease to dance again. She and a Penn State Health expert talk about why exercise is a game changer.
Guodong Liu awarded the Lloyd Prize for Innovative Health Research
The Social Science Research Institute has announced Guodong Liu, professor of public health sciences, is the inaugural winner of the Lloyd Prize for Innovative Health Research.
Diabetes specialist: Make ‘personal choice’ to address health equity
Deciding to take the journey is as important as the journey. That’s how a Penn State Health diabetes educator characterizes efforts to learn how technology access affects outcomes for minoritie...
Novel robotic training program reduces physician errors placing central lines
More than 5 million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the United States every year, yet the common procedure ca...
Penn State Health Children’s Week raises more than $100,000
Gifts to Children’s Miracle Network at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital totaled $100,170 during Penn State Health Children’s Week, a fundraising campaign held April 8-14.
https://www.psu.edu/news/hershey/story/penn-state-health-childrens-week-raises-more-100000
Infrastructure, consultation for multi-site studies using electronic health data
Penn State has established the Digital Collaboratory for Precision Health Research, an initiative led by the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and the Center for Artificial Intelligen...
Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences selects Leadership Fellows for 2024-25
For the 2024-25 academic year, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has appointed Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Scott Medina, Professor of Statistics Lingzhou Xue and Associat...
Q&A: Can weight loss drugs help in addiction treatment?
Faculty from the Penn State College of Medicine are among the first to investigate whether GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs could play a role in the treatment of opioid use disorder. Patricia "Sue" ...
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/qa-can-weight-loss-drugs-help-addiction-treatment
The Medical Minute: Six organ donation facts knock down six myths
More than 103,000 people in the U.S. are awaiting new organs. Many won’t live long enough to get them. The new chief of transplant at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center debunks ...
https://www.psu.edu/news/hershey/story/medical-minute-six-organ-donation-facts-knock-down-six-myths
Flag-raising ceremonies honor lifesaving organ donation
Penn State Health honored organ donors and recipients and raised awareness for organ donation at event on the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Holy Spirit Medical Center campuses.
https://www.psu.edu/news/hershey/story/flag-raising-ceremonies-honor-lifesaving-organ-donation
Disparities in sleep health and insomnia may begin at a young age
Children and teens from racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by persistent insomnia symptoms that begin in childhood and continue through young adulthood, according t...
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/disparities-sleep-health-and-insomnia-may-begin-young-age
First longitudinal study of industry payments to U.S. physicians
According to a new analysis, a team led by a Penn State researcher found that doctors received approximately $12.1 billion from drug and device makers between 2013 and 2022. It’s one of the fir...
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/first-longitudinal-study-industry-payments-us-physicians
The Medical Minute: April fools versus April facts
‘Tis the season of April trickery. Five Penn State health experts help separate what’s real and what’s myth.
https://www.psu.edu/news/hershey/story/medical-minute-april-fools-versus-april-facts
Applications now open for CTSI Implementation Science Fellowship Program
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Implementation Science Core is accepting applications for the Implementation Science Fellowship Program now through May 24. The pro...
The Medical Minute: Experience the solar eclipse while protecting your vision
It’s a celestial anomaly that happens only once in a blue moon. A Penn State Health expert talks about the safest ways for you to witness the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8.