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The first robotically-assisted heart bypass surgery was performed yesterday at Penn State Geisinger's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

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Researchers at Penn State's College of Medicine have shown that a new antidote for the treatment of antifreeze poisoning is safer and more effective than the current method of treatment.

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Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death of women in the world. Papillomaviruses are associated with more than 90 percent of all cases of cervical cancer. In the past, the disease was difficult to study because the virus could not be grown in a tissue culture in a lab. However, researchers at Penn State's College of Medicine in Hershey have developed a way to grow the virus. This means the entire life cycle of the virus can now be studied which should help researchers develop drugs to fight the disease.

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Researchers at Penn State's College of Medicine, at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center have identified what may be a new, independent risk factor measurement for heart attacks and strokes. Fibrinogen is the main clotting factor in the blood. Researchers say that gamma prime, a form of fibrinogen that makes up about 10 percent of total fibrinogen, may be an indicator of possible heart attacks and strokes.

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HERSHEY, PA -- Researchers have found that the most severe cases of sleep apnea occur in the young (people under 45) and should be treated more aggressively once it is diagnosed so that problems like hypertension and other cardiovascular problems can be reduced.

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The typical length of treatment for acetaminophen overdose is three days, and often the use of the antidote, N-acetylcysteine, is not used after 24 hours. J. Ward Donovan, M.D. associate professor of medicine at Penn State's College of Medicine, says this treatment mehtod needs to be closely examined, and in some cases changed.

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Researchers at Penn State's College of Medicine have identified a set of neurons in the brain that may contribute to some of the undesirable side effects of pain medication.

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Giving test subjects sex hormones over a nearly two-year period had little or no effect on adolescent sexual behavior after, .

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A new, specially designed diaper that allows 87 percent of light to pass through the diaper could help the 400,000 babies born each year with jaundice. The diaper was designed by a pediatric nurse practitioner, at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

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The first voice-controlled robotically assisted heart bypass surgery on a human was performed in Munich, Germany by an international team of cardiac surgeons including Ralph Damiano, M.D., chief of cardiothoracic surgery of The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, (Hershey, PA).

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For the first time a drug manufacturer has decided that anesthesiologists should be trained on a human patient simulator to learn how a drug works and how it effects patients before physicians actually use the drug on patients.

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A common surfactant and detergent found in many shampoos and toothpastes is the first topical microbicidal agent shown to kill animal and human papillomavirus

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A two-year durability test is now underway at Penn State's College of Medicine on the Penn State total electric artificial heart. The durability testing is one of the final steps before the devices could reach human clinical trials.

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Hershey, PA - Jane E. Henney, M.D., commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, will address graduates and their guests at the 29th annual commencement of Penn State's College of Medicine. The ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 16, at 1 p.m. at Founder's Hall of the Milton Hershey School.

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The chair of psychiatry at Penn State's College of Medicine, will be leading a panel discussion where he will discuss many aspects of school violence at 2 p.m. at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in Washington, D.C.

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In 1990, when Fran Hultzapple was preparing to have breast cancer surgery, she spent hours searching for pictures that would help her visualize what her body would look like after a modified radical mastectomy and reconstruction. Descriptions and medical explanations were not enough; she needed to see what to expect.

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New research from Penn State's College of Medicine shows that even one night of disrupted or missed sleep by a healthy person can drastically alter a person's chemical balance and cause daytime sleepiness and fatigue.

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For the first time physicians today implanted a new kind of heart-assist device to help a seriously ill patient survive.

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Physicians at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center are now enrolling patients in a clinical trial to test a new drug to fight pancreatic cancer.

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For the first time physicians today implanted a new kind of heart-assist device to help a seriously ill patient survive.