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Ҵý: The Medical Minute: What Does It Mean to Have Dense Breasts?
Released: 30-Apr-2025 7:35 PM EDT
The Medical Minute: What Does It Mean to Have Dense Breasts?
Penn State Health

Dense breasts contain more tissue than fat and can make breast cancer harder to detect. A Penn State Health breast imaging radiologist explains what other screening options may improve early detection.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Keep Your Bones Strong During Menopause and Beyond
Released: 28-Apr-2025 5:50 PM EDT
The Medical Minute: Keep Your Bones Strong During Menopause and Beyond
Penn State Health

When menopause hits, your risk of bone fractures goes up. Penn State Health experts tell how to protect your skeleton (and deal with other menopause symptoms, too).

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Your Organ Donation Questions Answered
Released: 18-Apr-2025 4:45 AM EDT
The Medical Minute: Your Organ Donation Questions Answered
Penn State Health

Every eight minutes, someone joins the transplant waiting list in the United States, and just one organ donor can save up to eight lives. Penn State Health experts tell how registering as an organ donor can give others a second chance at life.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Sexual Violence Against Older Adults: How to Find Help and Healing
Released: 9-Apr-2025 8:20 PM EDT
The Medical Minute: Sexual Violence Against Older Adults: How to Find Help and Healing
Penn State Health

Sexual violence often goes unrecognized in older adults. The co-chairs of Penn State Health's Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program explain how to spot abuse and seek help.

Released: 3-Apr-2025 6:10 AM EDT
The Medical Minute: Getting Ahead of Head and Neck Cancer
Penn State Health

The warning signs of head and neck cancer can be easy to miss. But according to a Penn State Health physician, prevention is possible.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Don’t Snooze on Sleep Apnea
Released: 19-Mar-2025 6:45 PM EDT
The Medical Minute: Don’t Snooze on Sleep Apnea
Penn State Health

Does your partner keep leaving for the guest room because of your snoring? You could have sleep apnea. A Penn State Health sleep medicine specialist explains the serious health effects of this often-overlooked condition ─ and the treatments that can help you get a restful night’s sleep.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Why Am I Always So Tired?
Released: 12-Mar-2025 8:00 PM EDT
The Medical Minute: Why Am I Always So Tired?
Penn State Health

Feeling tired all the time? A Penn State Health family medicine physician shares simple tips on lifestyle changes, sleep hygiene habits and diet to help improve your sleep.

Released: 10-Mar-2025 5:45 PM EDT
Early-Life Responsive Parenting Intervention Yields Lasting but Diminishing Benefits on Child Weight
Penn State College of Medicine

Early life-responsive parenting can lead to healthier weight outcomes for children in their earliest years, with effects lasting but diminishing into middle childhood, according to a new study.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Measles Makes a Comeback. Your Questions Answered
Released: 5-Mar-2025 7:45 PM EST
The Medical Minute: Measles Makes a Comeback. Your Questions Answered
Penn State Health

Measles cases are rising in the U.S., with Pennsylvania reporting its first case this year. A Penn State Health pediatric infectious disease physician answers your questions about the highly contagious virus and why vaccination remains the best defense.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Ear Infections and Kids: Top Tips for Parents
Released: 19-Feb-2025 9:05 PM EST
The Medical Minute: Ear Infections and Kids: Top Tips for Parents
Penn State Health

A Penn State Health otolaryngologist shares what to know about ear infections and other ear, nose and throat problems in children.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Can You Have a Heart Attack and Not Know It?
Released: 5-Feb-2025 8:15 PM EST
The Medical Minute: Can You Have a Heart Attack and Not Know It?
Penn State Health

Not all heart attacks have telltale symptoms like chest pain. A Penn State Health cardiologist shares signs of a silent heart attack and tips to protect your heart.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: What Works ─ and What Doesn’t ─ to Prevent Norovirus
Released: 29-Jan-2025 9:00 PM EST
The Medical Minute: What Works ─ and What Doesn’t ─ to Prevent Norovirus
Penn State Health

Norovirus, often called the stomach flu, is spreading rapidly in the U.S. A Penn State Health infectious diseases specialist explains why—and why hand sanitizer isn’t effective against it.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Pulling Back the Curtain on Infertility
Released: 10-Jan-2025 5:50 PM EST
The Medical Minute: Pulling Back the Curtain on Infertility
Penn State Health

For decades, people struggling with infertility had to add social stigma to problems. A Penn State Health doctor discusses the causes and treatments of infertility and how attitudes have shifted.

Ҵý: Revolutionizing Environmental Research: First Daphnia Histology Reference Atlas Published
Released: 9-Jan-2025 7:25 PM EST
Revolutionizing Environmental Research: First Daphnia Histology Reference Atlas Published
Penn State Health

A unique web-based resource of Daphnia, a sentinel species for environmental pollution, commonly used to help us detect and understand the potential toxic effects of chemicals in the environment, has just been established by Penn State researchers.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Shingles and Its Shot: What You Need to Know to Stay Healthy
Released: 5-Dec-2024 7:45 AM EST
The Medical Minute: Shingles and Its Shot: What You Need to Know to Stay Healthy
Penn State Health

The same virus that causes chickenpox can also reemerge as shingles, causing a painful string of rashes. A Penn State Health family medicine physician discusses the symptoms and why he recommends the shingles vaccine for adults 50 and older and adults with weakened immune systems.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: Getting to the Heart of Heartburn─What to Know, How to Treat It
Released: 6-Nov-2024 5:10 PM EST
The Medical Minute: Getting to the Heart of Heartburn─What to Know, How to Treat It
Penn State Health

One in five Americans suffers from acid reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease, when stomach acid flows back into the esophagus. Treatments include lifestyle changes, medications and now a minimally invasive procedure called the LINX Reflux Management System.

Ҵý: Penn State College of Medicine Launches ‘Partnership-Based Center’ to Reduce Health Disparities in Commonwealth and Beyond
Released: 31-Oct-2024 1:25 PM EDT
Penn State College of Medicine Launches ‘Partnership-Based Center’ to Reduce Health Disparities in Commonwealth and Beyond
Penn State College of Medicine

With a mission to bridge the gap in health equity in rural communities, Penn State College of Medicine has launched the Center for Advancing Health Equity in Rural and Underserved Communities (CAHE-RUC). This novel, groundbreaking center is dedicated to studying, addressing and reducing health disparities affecting rural and underserved communities in Pennsylvania and beyond.

Ҵý: The Medical Minute: 10 Health Tips for Parents During Cold and Flu Season
Released: 30-Oct-2024 8:15 AM EDT
The Medical Minute: 10 Health Tips for Parents During Cold and Flu Season
Penn State Health

As the cold weather approaches, it’s important to protect your family from the flu, COVID-19 and RSV. A Penn State Health pediatrician shares some simple tips to help keep everyone healthy.

Released: 8-Oct-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Rates of a Tick-Borne Parasitic Disease Are on the Rise
Penn State College of Medicine

Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022 and four in 10 patients were found to be co-infected with another tick-borne illness such as Lyme disease.

Ҵý: Vrana Named One of AAMC’s Four National Distinguished Teachers
Released: 27-Sep-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Vrana Named One of AAMC’s Four National Distinguished Teachers
Penn State College of Medicine

The Association of American Medical Colleges has honored Kent Vrana, PhD, the Elliot S. Vesell Professor and emeritus chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine, with the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award.

   


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