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The Lancaster General Health News Room is designed to help you stay updated on important medical news and health information on both a local and national level. It includes articles and videos about local and national healthcare advances and issues from LG Health, as well as news about LG Health provided by local media sources.
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At LGH sisters opt for surgery to reduce breast cancer risk
5/9/2012 -
Breast cancer has crossed the minds of most women at some point in their lives. For Jennifer Garman of Manheim, the mother of four young children, breast cancer was more than just a passing thought. Instead of wondering if she would get breast cancer, Jennifer wondered when. She wasn’t alone. Her older sister, Lavonne Kopcha of Elizabethtown, felt the same.
LG Health to open Ephrata Urgent Care May 29
5/9/2012 -
Lancaster General Health will open a new Urgent Care in Ephrata on Tuesday, May 29. The one-story 5,000 square-foot center, located in the 222 Commons next to the Sheetz convenience store at 895 E. Main St., Routes 322 and 222, will provide extended hours for minor medical emergencies and outpatient laboratory, X-ray and EKG services.
da Vinci Single-Site™ incision revolutionizes gall bladder removal at LGH
5/1/2012 -
Each year, about one million people in the United States undergo surgery to remove their gallbladder, making gallbladder, or cholecystectomy procedures, one of the most common. Of that number, 40 % of patients are women, ages 18 to 44.*
LG Health's Penn Cancer Network partnership helps patients with rare cancers
4/18/2012 - When Joe Querry took a nap one summer afternoon, he never expected to wake up and make a life-changing discovery: a lump he found in his neck that day would soon be diagnosed as cancer that had invaded his lymph nodes.
LGH physician receives Drexel's Golden Apple Award
4/18/2012 - Philip Billoni, MD, of Lancaster, who practices with Internal Medicine Hospital Specialists at Lancaster General Hospital, was one of three recipients of the prestigious Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching and mentoring from Drexel University College of Medicine.