Penn State Hershey Medical Center

Radon’s Link to Lung Cancer Each year, radon kills more people than home fires, drowning, falls or drunk driving. It takes some 21,000 lives annually and is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers. Even though there are plenty of ways to decrease exposure to the Read More

Iron Supplement Could Stop Anemia in Kids Penn State College of Medicine and University of Wisconsin have been awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund the study of a novel way to treat iron deficiency anemia in children. Iron Read More

Gene Discovery Could Aid ALS Treatment Mice bred to carry a gene variant found in one third of ALS patients have a faster disease progression and die sooner than mice with the standard genetic model of the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Read More