Mothers of children with behavioral problems, like ADHD, who parent negatively — using yelling or spanking, for example, as punishment — were associated with children who go on to have a range of problems in the classroom, according to researchers.
Researchers in the College of Health and Human Development contributed to the 2017 Women’s Health Research Day Conference by sharing research and moderating panel discussions.
Penn State College of Medicine researchers studied the most common themes in children's movies and made recommendations for how to watch and talk about them with kids.
A rare cancer that's been linked to a certain type of breast implants may be underreported, according to a research review by Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Playing a game designed to spur conversation about end-of-life care may lead players to go on to make advance care plans, according to researchers.
The breast milk of mothers with premature babies has different amounts of microRNA than that of mothers with babies born at term, which may help premature babies catch up in growth and development, according to researchers. The findings may help better match babies with donated breast milk and give insight into how to develop better infant formula.
A few recent attempts to treat melanoma have been either unsuccessful, or not successful enough. Penn State College of Medicine researchers have blended two approaches to create a compound that is showing initial success with killing melanoma cells and inhibiting tumor growth in mice and in human cells.
As part of an ongoing partnership, Penn State College of Medicine library staff recently loaded two, 40-foot containers with donated materials bound for Mountcrest University College in rural Ghana.
Prevention Produce is part of a larger Food as Medicine program led by medical students and was launched by students at Penn State College of Medicine. Learn more about the initiative in this article.
With a career in retrovirology research, a passion for education, and a 24-year history at Penn State Hershey, Dr. Leslie Parent brings a strong skillset to her new position as vice dean for research and graduate education.
Jim Pawelczyk, associate professor of physiology, kinesiology and medicine at Penn State, testified before the Subcommittee on Space in the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Friday, July 10 in Washington, D.C.
On Aug. 2, members of Penn State College of Medicine’s medical class of 2017 received their first white medical coats in the presence of family, friends and peers. The college’s annual White Coat Ceremony symbolizes the students’ entrance into the medical profession as student physicians.
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the Pew Prescription Project have given Penn State College of Medicine a grade of 'B' on the recently published 2009 PharmFree Scorecard. The grade improves on the "Incomplete" mark given to the college in 2008 while its new conflict of interest policy was still in development.
Sural K. Shah, a fourth-year student at Penn State College of Medicine, recently received a $2,000 scholarship from the Endowment for South Asian Students of Indian Descent (ESASID) Fund.
Last spring, more than 700 community members turned out on the Saturday before Earth Day to make the sweetest place on Earth into the cleanest place on Earth. The first annual Kiss Hershey Back, an initiative led by students from Penn State College of Medicine to clean and beautify Derry Township, removed 28 cubic yards of litter and several old tires from the streets and parks and saw the planting of several young trees.
