Dr. Rena Kass, director of Penn State Hershey Breast Center, said actress Angelina Jolie’s announcement regarding her double mastectomy is great publicity that will raise awareness about the genetic component of many cancers.

Penn State Hershey is hosting another session of CLIMB: Children’s Lives Include Moments of Bravery. Developed by the Children’s Treehouse Foundation, this five-week program sponsored by Penn State Hershey Breast Center addresses the psychosocial aspects of cancer as they relate to the family unit.

In an effort to help patients living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis in central Pennsylvania, Penn State Hershey Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center experts, led by Dr. Walter Koltun, will host a patient symposium.

Penn State College of Medicine graduate students recently launched a new blog called Lions Talk Science. It will feature articles relating to biomedical sciences as well as fascinating scientific experiment findings.

Picture a stormy sea, ominous sky, and a small boat being tossed about by threatening waves and gusty winds. Alone in the boat, a couple struggles to keep from going under. This is the metaphor at the heart of Dr. Dan Shapiro’s new book," And in Health: A Guide for Couples Facing Cancer Together," that was released on May 14.

Dr. Brian Smith, chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn., will present the Department of Pathology Visiting Professor Lecture Series talk at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, in the Pathology Conference Room, C7702, on the Penn State Hershey campus. He will present "Pathology Training and Practice in the 21st Century: Not Your Grandfather’s Pathologist Anymore."

April showers might bring May flowers, but they also kick grass into high growing gear, prompting homeowners everywhere to pull out the mower in hopes of cutting order into their lawns. It also means that emergency departments begin seeing more injuries caused by this most familiar piece of household equipment.

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Select Medical begin construction today on a project to nearly double the number of beds at its joint venture, Penn State Hershey Rehabilitation Hospital.