Penn State Health is developing two projects at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center that will cost more than $37 million in renovations and expansions.

Penn State Children’s Hospital was voted the third best children’s hospital in the state and Lancaster General Hospital and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center tied for fourth place among Pennsylvania’s best hospitals in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals in Pennsylvania report for 2020.

PA Options for Wellness, a Harrisburg-based medical marijuana company partnered with Penn State College of Medicine to provide medical marijuana for research purposes, opened the first of its six planned dispensaries this month in Harrisburg.

Penn State Health and Highmark Health plan to begin construction on a new health practice at Highmark’s corporate campus in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County.

Penn State Health Medical Group plans to expand its services in Dauphin County with a new primary care facility in Lower Paxton Township.

Following its most recent round of applications for the Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Research Program, the state Department of Health has approved four more organizations to begin clinical trials alongside academic partners.

Experts say the average cancer patient needs more access and education on the benefits of trials before they choose them over better-known therapies.

A majority of cancer patients do not seek out clinical trials as their first course of treatment, according to a new study by researchers at the Hershey-based Penn State Cancer Institute.

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) named a Penn State graduate student as its inaugural housing policy fellow.

Penn State Health’s incoming vice president for medical affairs and staff development is expected to lead in the recruitment of staff for the system’s new Hampden Medical Center when it opens in 2021, according to officials.

Dr. Francis Achampong, 64, is chancellor at Penn State Mont Alto, where he also heads up the LaunchBox program. He started his career in education as a professor of business law at Howard University and later moved into administration. He joined Mont Alto in 2002 as its chief academic officer, and after a three-year stint as chancellor at Penn State Fayette, returned as the Franklin County campus’ chancellor in 2013.

Amid legal and financial challenges, cannabis entrepreneurs are banking on growing cultural acceptance of their product to succeed.

One of the first of three medical marijuana research organizations approved by the state broke ground Wednesday on a 65,000-square-foot facility in Penn Township, Perry County where cannabis will be grown, processed, manufactured and researched.

Penn State researchers are using Legos in research to grow scientifically engineered meat.

The idea that consumers should become more savvy about health care costs has been around for a least a generation, but the ability for people to effectively compare prices in health care remains elusive.