Western Pennsylvania's Guide To Good Health is a quarterly full color magazine that showcases healthcare providers in Western Pennsylvania. This comprehensive healthcare, wellness and fitness guide provides consumers with the information they need to help them achieve the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle and make healthcare decisions for themselves and family members.

What Women Need to Know
Alternative Option For Treating Uterine Fibroids

More than 25 million American women have a medical condition that can adversely impact their lives—uterine fibroids.
Uterine fibroids are common, benign noncancerous tumors that grow on or within the muscle tissue of the uterus. While some women may have fibroids and never experience symptoms, fibroids can have a significant effect on many women’s quality of life. Every woman should see a physician if she suspects that she has uterine fibroids..

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Living Successfully with Ovarian Cancer
By April Terreri

When Lynn Giglione, 54, first discovered she had ovarian cancer eight years ago, she was determined to cope successfully despite the odds. A nurse for 30 years, she well understood the challenges facing her. “It is a devastating disease. Of all the gynecological cancers, it has the worst prognosis because it’s the most lethal of these cancers.” It is also a disease with very subtle symptoms that, many times, are overlooked. An alarming number of women finally discover they have ovarian cancer when it is in the later stages of development because of these subtle symptoms. [See last paragraph]

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OVGH Offers Minimally Invasive Treatment Options for Incontinence, Hysterectomy
By Vanessa Orr

For years, women who suffered from urinary incontinence or who required a hysterectomy didn’t have many surgical options available. In order to find relief, they often had to undergo major surgery, which was painful, required long recovery times and increased the risk of infection or other complications. But today there are minimally invasive options that successfully treat these conditions, greatly improving a woman’s quality of life.

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Do You Know What Is In Your Soil?

From toys containing lead contaminated paint to the safety of the food supply, there appears to be no end to the health concerns facing Americans and their children. However, there may be additional threats to consider - threats lurking just outside the home. The soil on which our homes rest and our children play could be cause for concern.

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New Guidelines Issued for Breast MRI
By Michelle R. Straka, M.D.

At Weinstein Imaging Associates, a comprehensive breast diagnostic center serving the tri-state region, we are committed to offering our patients and the community the latest information regarding breast cancer detection.

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Varicose Vein Treatment Gets
More and More Simple
By Lois Thomson

Dr. Gennady Geskin, a cardiovascular specialist who is part of Jefferson Cardiology Association, is an authority on varicose veins. He is familiar with the different procedures to care for them, such as EVLT (the Endovenous Laser Treatments) and phlebectomies. But in speaking about it, he reduces the message to simple terms:

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Back in Action

When leukemia struck this ten-year-old four-sport athlete, an NFL player, and an online community of teammates, teachers and friends rallied to carry him across the cancer finish line.

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