Health & Wellness

STATE COLLEGE — Dr. Todd Cousins, a board-certified interventional pain management physician, has joined the staff at Geisinger Gray’s Woods, 132 Abigail Lane, Port Matilda.  Cousins treats patients who need cervical and lumbar facet injections and radiofrequency ablation, cervical/thoracic/lumbar epidural steroid injections and sacroiliac, myofascial trigger point injections, occipital nerve blocks and hip joint…

STATE COLLEGE — Dr. Todd Cousins, a board-certified interventional pain management physician, has joined the staff at Geisinger Gray’s Woods, 132 Abigail Lane, Port Matilda.  Cousins treats patients who need cervical and lumbar facet injections and radiofrequency ablation, cervical/thoracic/lumbar epidural steroid injections and sacroiliac, myofascial trigger point injections, occipital nerve blocks and hip joint…

BELLEFONTE — Centre County commissioners recently authorized issuing bonds that will help fund improvements to Mount Nittany Medical Center. The tax-exempt bonds will be issued through the Centre County Hospital Authority, with the proceeds not to exceed $80 million to be loaned to the medical center. Taxable bonds also will be issued, and together…

HERSHEY— Dr. Peter Dillon, chief of surgery at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, likes to drop in on his doctors at work. In early 2010, he was watching as staff surgeon Dr. Don Mackay affixed thin metal plates to the broken ribs of an elderly patient. Mackay had modified the standard…

UNIVERSITY PARK — GM-CSF, a protein that modifies the immune response to the flu, may also help reduce lung inflammation and improve survival during influenza, according to Penn State researchers. The researchers studied the survival and lung function of mice with influenza in the lab. They found that the mice that had been given…

SPRING MILLS — A YMCA dinner featuring ham, side dishes and desserts will be served from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, at New Hope Lutheran Church in Spring Mills. The meal, which is open to the public , is $11 for adults, $5.50 for children ages 5 to 12 and free for children…

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State researchers are developing a system, WearIT, that uses wearable devices as tools to help individuals battle addiction. The group’s idea was the winner of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania’s TechCelerator program, which provided $10,000 in December to bring the idea closer to market. WearIT…

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania-born adoptees are celebrating their recently restored right to access their original birth certificates, which had been sealed since 1984. After eight years of negotiations, legislation to reinstate the rights of Pennsylvania adult adoptees to apply for and receive a non-certified copy of their original birth certificate became law Nov. 3, 2016. One year…

STATE COLLEGE — Home Nursing Agency recently announced it has been named a top agency of 2017 by HomeCare Elite. For 12 years, HomeCare Elite has identified the top 25 percent of Medicare-certified agencies and highlighted the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall. Home Nursing Agency Home Health has made the HomeCare Elite listing…

FBELLEFONTE — Dominion Energy has awarded FaithCentre a $5,000 grant to purchase fresh produce for food bank client distribution during the winter months. “Our clients love receiving fresh produce and it is so much healthier than canned alternatives,” said FaithCentre executive director Nicole Summers. “Everyone at the FaithCentre is very excited about this opportunity…