May 2008

Hand & UpperEx Center Provides Care for Patients, Support to Community

By Vanessa Orr

Located in Wexford with a satellite office in the South Hills, the doctors at the Hand & UpperEx Center have been evaluating, diagnosing and treating patients with conditions affecting the nerves, bones, tendons, joints, skin and vascular supply of the hands and upper extremities for more than 25 years.


     
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Perspective

BY JACK ETZEL

How Should Women Cope with Midlife Crisis?

Since the beginning of humankind, women have had to confront an unfortunate combination of menopause and misery. Taking the misery out of that equation would appear to be the goal of a special program at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC known as the Women’s Midlife Health Center. Dr. Mary Peterson is the director and is the subject of this month’s Perspective.

    

 
 

 

  
 

Retirement Plan Rollovers

  
 

Cirrhosis—Scarring of the Liver

  
 

Spring is for the Seller

  
 

Now or Later: Assessments of Elderly Living Situations