Tuberculosis

Cheraine Stanford

WPSU’s Health Minute is a collaboration with Penn State’s College of Nursing.World Tuberculosis Day is in March. It’s a time to raise public awareness…

Chuck Felton at Union Cemetery, where many of the Cresson Sanatorium patients who died of TB were buried.

Medicine and Health

Cresson TB Sanatorium Reunion, Part Two

Patty Satalia

Last August, Chuck Felton organized a reunion for the Cresson TB Sanatorium. The retired aerospace engineer now living in Texas, spent 16 months at the…

Chuck Felton at the TB sanatorium in Cresson, Pa.

Medicine and Health

Chuck Felton Remembers his 16 Months at the Cresson TB Sanatorium, Part One

Patty Satalia

In 1955, Chuck Felton was seventeen, president of his senior class at Towanda Valley High School in northeastern Pennsylvania, with plans to attend Penn…