STATE COLLEGE — Mount Nittany Health recently announced Kennita Burns-Johnson, D.O. has joined General Surgery at the Mount Nittany Medical Center. Dr. Burns-Johnson has extensive breast surgery experience, is well regarded in her field and is board certified. Her breast surgery experience ...

STATE COLLEGE — Mount Nittany Health celebrated the opening of their newly renovated Dialysis space at Mount Nittany Medical Center with a special ribbon cutting ceremony. This space includes everything needed to provide dialysis treatments for individuals whose kidneys are failing. The ...

With the ground beginning to thaw and daisies pushing their way up through sun-starved soil, days are starting to look a little less dreary and a little springier. Parks are starting to fill up and clangs of bats are echoed throughout the neighborhoods. This can only mean one thing: baseball ...

Dealing with a bug can disrupt your plans. And it can leave you feeling depleted. But when the worst of the stomach discomfort, coughing, fever or congestion is over, you might be anxious to spend time with friends and family again, get back to work or start exercising. When it comes to being ...

Despite what you’ve heard, shingles isn’t just a disease that affects older people. Anyone who’s had chickenpox can get shingles, and it can be a serious illness. But even if you don’t remember having chickenpox (you may not have had “true chickenpox,” or you had the live ...

Nobody likes waiting. As humans, we’re naturally impatient. In today’s world, we have unlimited information and instantaneous gratification at our fingertips — we want it, and we want it now. But imagine being one of more than 118,000 people currently waiting for a lifesaving organ ...