Penn State Health News

Camp Lionheart recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, bringing together children and teens with heart disease for a week of traditional summer camp activities in a medically supported environment. Founded by Penn State Health Golisano Children’s Hospital in partnership with Ellie’s Heart Foundation, the camp provided young people ages 12 to 18 the opportunity to enjoy swim...

Student leaders from across Pennsylvania and neighboring states gathered today in Hershey for the annual Mini-THON Leadership Summit, where they celebrated another milestone year in the fight to conquer childhood cancer. During the event, students revealed an impressive $6,478,166.86 raised during the 2025-26 school year to support Four Diamonds. Since beginning in 1993, the ...

Penn State Health Life Lion Critical Care Transport has welcomed a new helicopter to its life-saving fleet, reinforcing the program’s commitment to providing safe, rapid critical care transport across central Pennsylvania and surrounding communities. The newest aircraft will be stationed at Life Lion’s Lancaster base, within the program’s top referral county for both air and ...

Penn State College of Medicine’s MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program welcomed five new first-year medical students during the 31st annual White Coat Ceremony held on Friday, July 31. The White Coat Ceremony is an important milestone for MD students, as they are welcomed into the profession and presented with their first white coats. During the ceremony, they are asked t...

When schools closed in the spring of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of children and adolescents receiving mental health treatment in the United States fell by more than half. By 2022, that number had not only rebounded, it exceeded pre-pandemic levels, according to a new national study by researchers from Penn State College of Medicine. In an analysis ...