HCAR - Hershey Center for Applied Research. South Centrals Pennsylvania's Premier Research Park Located Adjacent to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine.
Epidemiology
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The Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology was established on July 01, 1988, and evolved into the Department of Health Evaluation Sciences on July 01, 1997. It was renamed the Department of Public Health Sciences (PHS) on July 01, 2007. PHS has four divisions, namely the Division of Biostatistics, the Division of Epidemiology, the Division of Health Services Research, and the Institute for Collective Advancement of Activity and Nutrition.
The faculty members in the Division of Epidemiology have been successful in receiving grants for research in cancer mechanisms, cancer control and prevention, and environmental air quality and its link to cardiovascular disease, adolescent health, and bone mineral health.
The Asthma Clinical Research Network (ACRN) was established in 1993 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ACRN was designed to evaluate new and existing therapies for asthma treatment and to disseminate the results to the health care community. The ACRN is comprised of six Clinical Center across the United States, and one Data Coordinating Center (DCC).
The Childhood Asthma Research and Education Network (CARE) was established in 1999 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The CARE Network was formed to evaluate current and novel therapies and management strategies for children with asthma by implementing multiple clinical trials The CARE Network was modeled after ACRN with five Clinical Centers across the United States and HES functioning as the Data Coordinating Center.
Functioning as the ACRN DCC since 1993 and the CARE Network DCC since 1999, HES has established systems and procedures which lead and support the networks in implementing well-designed clinical trials. This includes collecting pristine data sets to address important issues in asthma treatment and establishing a firm clinical investigative database from which treatment decisions can be based and further hypotheses generated.
In pediatric clinical research a clinical study is ongoing to determine if combination and alternating regimens of acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Motrin) are superior to ibuprofen alone for treating fever in a single six-hour dosing schedule.
The goal of the Northern Appalachia Cancer Network (NACN) is to measurably reduce cancer-related health disparities in medically underserved rural communities of Pennsylvania and New York. NACN seeks to achieve this goal by bringing academicians, health care providers, and community members together to develop, test and evaluate community-based interventions. The targeted cancer sites are the colon and rectum, as well as the lung, cervix and female breast.