Psychology

The Case Study of a Failed Merger of Hospital Systems discusses the primary factors in the failure of the merger between Geisinger Health System and Penn State University Hershey Medical Center.  Merging in 1997 to create Penn State Geisinger Health System (PSGHS), the two organizations split apart in 1999.  Understanding what went wrong in the Geisinger/Hershey merger provides a valuable resource in designing strategies for successful healthcare mergers and preventing unsuccessful ones.

The ErbB2 (Neu) receptor tyrosine kinase is frequently overexpressed in human breast cancers, and this phenotype correlates with a poor clinical prognosis. We examined the effects of the mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor, rapamycin, on mammary tumorigenesis in ...