Jul 19, 2016
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Center at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is one of only a small handful of such centers in the U.S. providing nationally-recognized care to patients suffering from IBD and other related disorders, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
Findings from a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial raise doubts about the usefulness of indomethacin for prophylaxis of pancreatitis in all patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
Multi-gene panels can have a significant impact on the successful identification of patients with or at-risk for hereditary gastrointestinal cancers, such as those associated with Lynch syndrome.
Jul 1, 2016
Minimally invasive surgical treatment options are helping to revolutionize surgical care for patients with many upper gastrointestinal cancers and pre-cancerous syndromes at Penn State Health.
Jun 2, 2016
Approximately one in 33 babies in the U.S. is born with a birth defect. Among the most common are atrioventricular septal defects, spina bifida and intestinal atresia or stenosis.1 Many major defects are detected early during routine ultrasound imaging. “For women with a complex, high-risk pregnancy, a multidisciplinary team is usually needed to manage the […]
As one of the few tertiary care pediatric centers in Pennsylvania, Penn State Children’s Hospital features a Children’s Heart Group that has been an active presence in the community for decades. The Children’s Heart Group (CHG) provides fetal echocardiography, interventional cardiology, arrhythmia care, electrophysiology, cardiac intensive care and pulmonary hypertension services, as well as heart surgery […]
Medical science has progressed significantly in the treatment of pediatric cancers; however, certain tumors remain resistant, leading to poor prognoses and survival rates.1 “With experimental therapeutics, we focus on those pediatric cancer patients for whom conventional treatment has failed,” says Valerie Brown, M.D., Ph.D., clinical director, experimental therapeutics, Penn State Children’s Hospital. “Our goal is […]
Pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Penn State Children’s Hospital offers advanced treatments that result in stellar outcomes. In addition, both statewide and national reports provide compelling outcomes-based validity that Children’s Hospital provides outstanding care to children living with heart conditions. Two specialized pediatric heart surgeons, John Myers, M.D., director, pediatric and congenital heart surgery, and Brian […]
May 11, 2016
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center was one of the first in the country to offer treatment with the Pipeline® embolization device. It now uses Pipeline™ Flex, which allows neurosurgeons to reposition the device and achieve more precise placement.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has one of the few autonomic testing laboratories in Pennsylvania, allowing neurosurgeons to perform noninvasive tests to diagnose autonomic dysfunction disorders more accurately in patients.
