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A young girl sits between two women on a couch. She holds and pages through a large photo album as the women look on, smiling. A bookshelf and window are in the background.

The Medical Minute: How to discuss family health history with children

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Medical Minute: Eustachian tube dilation offers safer relief from dysfunction

Members of Vaccinate America

Vaccinate America: Student organization tackling public health issues on campus

William Doan 2019-20 Penn State Laureate

Penn State Laureate to visit York campus Nov. 6

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The Medical Minute: How to support people with dementia

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The Medical Minute: Intermittent fasting -- foolproof or fad?

A few hundred pills of various types are dumped onto a plain space.

Penn State Health to observe National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

A man and a woman sit side-by-side on a couch. Image shows them from the neck down. The woman’s left hand is on the man’s right leg, which he holds with both hands.

Medical Minute: Providers help women cope with pain of infant loss

Constance Murray, who underwent a heart transplant in 1986, is embraced by Dr. John Pennock, the surgeon who performed the surgery. She is wearing a blazer and top and has her eyes closed. Dr. Pennock is wearing glasses and a suit and tie.

Medical Center heart transplant program lauded for survival rate

Whitney Adams, left, an intensive feeding therapist with the Penn State Children’s Hospital Feeding Program, holds out a toy to 11-year-old Jesus Rodriguez. They are both sitting in chairs at a small table.

When food is the enemy, pediatric feeding program helps kids triumph

A young child stands with both hands stretched directly toward the camera. Both hands are covered in soap suds. The rest of the child, in the background, is blurry.

The Medical Minute: Hand sanitizers effective, but handwashing is better

A man, young boy and woman sit on a couch. The man and woman have an arm around the child, who is in the middle. A woman with a notepad sits across from them in a chair.

The Medical Minute: Making ADHD less stressful on the family

A woman in a medical coat stands at a computer. A mammogram image is on the monitor. In the background, out of focus, a woman stands facing imaging equipment.

The Medical Minute: Breast density -- separating myth from fact

canine parvovirus

Virus may jump species through 'rock-and-roll' motion with receptors

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The Medical Minute: Don't stay silent on suicide

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