Sean Stocker, associate professor of cellular and molecular physiology, Penn State College of Medicine, and Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute, has received an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award for his research looking at the effects of dietary sodium on cardiovascular function and disease.
This award is given to only 16 researchers across the United States. The five-year research grant is based on both past and present contributions and in future promise in cardiovascular research. (more)
Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute's (PSHVI) heart failure program has once again earned the Gold Seal of Approval for health care quality from The Joint Commission. (more)
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center goes red! In observance of National Heart Month and the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign, the building, above the north entrance will be illuminated with red lights. These red lights will shine beginning Feb. 4 and will continue to shine through the end of the month. (more)
Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute recently purchased a portable ventilator with a $20,000 gift from the Pennsylvania Fraternal Order of Eagles. The Heart and Vascular Institute is a national model for comprehensive cardiovascular care, and the Institute and its skilled clinicians are routinely ranked among America's best. (more)
The Nov. 1, Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute grand rounds lecture recognizes a significant milestone in the history of cardiac care at the Medical Center. On November 1, 1980, David Leaman and Joseph Babb -- both associate professors of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at that time -- performed the first procedure at Penn State Hershey Medical Center to treat blocked coronary arteries outside of the operating room. The procedure was a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. (more)
At different moments -- excitement, shock, or surprise -- one may feel his heartbeat slow down, speed up, or skip a beat. Any change in the normal rhythmic pattern of the heartbeat is referred to as an arrhythmia. These irregularities may be harmful or life-threatening, depending on the frequency and length. (more)
The Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute (HVI) has been awarded a five-year grant potentially totaling $10 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, with $2 million approved the first year. Lawrence Sinoway, director of HVI, is principal investigator for the project "Acute and Chronic Afferent Engagement: Sympathetic and End Organ Responses," which features four separate projects involving peripheral arterial disease (PAD). (more)
Many of the most crippling and lethal vascular complications can be effectively prevented and cured with early detection, diagnosis and treatment. Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute will be offering a free vascular screening 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23. Participants must be 65 years of age or older and have a history of high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking or a family history of abdominal aortic aneurysms. (more)
According to the American Heart Association, more than 5 million Americans are living with heart failure, a condition in which the heart muscle loses its ability to effectively pump blood. More than a half-million new cases are diagnosed each year. While these statistics are chilling, the diagnosis of heart failure does not have to be a death sentence for patients. (more)
The third annual Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute conference, known as Heartbeats in Hershey, will be held Friday, Sept. 17, at the Hershey Lodge. The theme for this year is "The Road to Mechanical Circulatory Support." The interdisciplinary educational symposium is designed to provide physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants and other interdisciplinary team members with advanced education related to a wide variety of topics that affect the care of cardiothoracic, vascular, cardiology and cardiac-assist device patients. (more)
