Health & Wellness

For the broccoli haters of the world, researchers may have more bad news: The vegetable may also help promote a healthy gut.

When the snow flies, it’s a given that the top of Tussey Mountain in Boalsburg will be filled with skiers and snowboarders preparing to race to the bottom. It’s not quite as expected to find a crowd gathered there during the warmer months, but that’s exactly what happens three times a year, whe

STATE COLLEGE— Centre LifeLink EMS has been re-accredited for its sixth consecutive three-year term by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services. Centre LifeLink was recognized for its compliance with national standards of excellence and exemplifying the “gold standard” of emergency medical care.  With this achievement, Centre LifeLink is one of only seven accredited…

Centre Home Care provided blood pressure screenings to attendees of this year’s Centre County Grange Fair. The organization’s nurses took the readings, while RSVP volunteers recorded the results. Here, Centre Home Care nurse Sara Bowman, right, takes RSVP member Dick Wolf’s blood pressure.  

Nearly 50 bikers and their passengers embarked on an 80-mile ride Aug. 5 to benefit the Centre County HOPE Initiative. A total of $2,801 was raised for the nonprofit.

The Centre County HOPE (Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education) Initiative is sponsoring a candlelight remembrance vigil from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, at Talleyrand Park, 320 W. High St. in Bellefonte.

U.S. News & World Report has recognized Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center as one of the best hospitals for 2017-18 in gastroenterology and GI surgery and orthopedics.

As Four Diamonds Mini-THON enters its 25th year of helping families in the fight against childhood cancer, the program is celebrating the success of students, teachers and the community in raising $29.5 million over the last quarter century.

Penn State News   HERSHEY — A technique called electrical grounding may moderate preterm infants’ electromagnetic exposure in the neonatal intensive care unit and improve their health outcomes, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Equipment in the NICU produces low-frequency electromagnetic fields that can have…

The amount of influenza-specific antibodies present in an individual’s blood can indicate not only if they experienced the flu, but potentially when — a finding that could improve disease monitoring in the tropics, where flu season is unending.