Jun 29, 2021
This fun and important pop-up educational program teaches in-hospital providers at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Children’s Hospital the importance of recognizing and responding to stroke symptoms.
Jun 15, 2021
A retrospective study of 127 ALS Clinic patients seen in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic assesses the feasibility, patient preferences and outcomes of the clinic’s shift from in-person to telehealth or telephone visits.
Feb 1, 2021
Dr. David Goldenberg, Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, performs radiofrequency ablation under local anesthesia as an in-office procedure for patients with benign thyroid nodules.
By participating in numerous open multicenter clinical trials, physicians and researchers at Penn State Cancer Institute continually seek ways to advance treatment for patients with head and neck cancers.
Jan 20, 2021
All urologic cancer surgical patients seen at Penn State Cancer Institute receive preoperative COVID-19 testing, which reduces the risk of spread. Timely referral of urologic cancer patients helps the Cancer Institute’s physicians catch cancer early and avoid metastatic disease.
Clinical data collected by a team of neurosurgeons and neuro-oncologists at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center will help inform a research project led by James Connor to better understand why males and females have different glioblastoma survival rates.
Dr. Patty Ssentongo, an epidemiology PhD student at Penn State College of Medicine, and Dr. Alain Lekoubou Looti, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, are part of a team of researchers examining patients’ incidence and risk of seizures after acute stroke reperfusion therapy.
Researchers from Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine conducted RNA sequencing and found elevated mucin gene expression in ulcerative colitis patients correlated with prolonged time to colectomy following diagnosis.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center researchers joined others in studying the risk for severe COVID-19 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gastroenterology and hepatology fellows in the U.S.
Pediatric urologist Dr. Amy S. Burns leads a group of 100 medical students in BraveCubs, an organization that brings magic and joy to inpatients at Penn State Children’s Hospital.
