By day, Shaneice Felder, 22, of Lancaster, was a nurse's aide at Lancaster General Hospital and a nursing student at Harrisburg Area Community College. By night she was a patient. Felder had kidney failure as a result of lupus. She used a dialysis machine for nine hours each night, she......

The American clinic workers called him "Machine Gun Man." The young-looking officer was no older than 30. Wearing black overalls and a navy-blue cap, a German-made assault rifle with a folding butt stock was slung across his chest. He strolled across a red-and-yellow tiled flo......

Joe Paterno said in a press conference last week that he intended to have his ailing right hip addressed as soon as possible.He wasn't kidding or exaggerating.The Penn State head coach, 81, underwent successful hip replacement surgery Sunday at Mount Nittany Medical Center, the ......

Two local hospitals received passing grades for heart surgery, and one received positive marks, in a new state report issued today by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. Lancaster General Hospital received positive marks for lower-than-expected death rates for two of four dif......

They prepared the operating room. They scrubbed. They passed instruments in sequence over a draped "patient" of rolled towels. "Then I said, 'I think we're ready,' " said Lawrence Bonchek, founder of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Lancaster — the cardiac surger......

Ray Ostrander remembers his reaction to seeing photos of himself at his daughter's wedding. "I saw the pictures and thought 'aha,' " he said. His revelation? Ostrander decided it was time for some cosmetic surgery — something more men are seeking these days....

Doing her dishes and making the bed cause Marian Madonna to positively wince. Walking through the grocery store entails gingerly hanging onto a cart. Getting out of a car? Whew. Going up and down steps? Horrible. The 74-year-old Millersville woman has arthritis in her back, which has trigg......

Looking to add convenience and capacity, a group of physicians and Ephrata Community Hospital are opening an outpatient surgery center near Brownstown. The $10 million Crossroads Ambulatory Surgery Center, on Route 272 near Route 772 in the Brownstown Commons Office Park, is due to be comple......

The yellowed newspaper clippings on Nick Siviglia's desk at Lancaster Contact Lens about his lens patents are 20 years old. The photocopy of a story in the Lancaster New Era — "When LASIK fails" — is from February. The recent wire-service story tells about a woman......

In 43 years as a Franklin & Marshall College professor, Ira Feit taught thousands of students. He never imagined he would later cross paths with one who would save his life. Feit turns 68 this week, thanks to cardiothoracic surgeon and former student, Dr. Jeffrey T. Cope. Cope performe......

The Westphal Group orthopedic surgery practice has forged a first-of-its-kind partnership for this area by adding two longtime local neurosurgeons to its roster.Dr. James P. Argires and his son, Dr. Perry J. Argires, have left Lancaster Neuroscience & Spine Associates, the practice the......

Eight-year-old Brianna Pratt was determined to pay a visit. And for a couple of Lancaster General Hospital surgeons, Christmas came early Wednesday when they met their tiny patient nearly a year after saving her life after a drive-by shooting. "She was on death's doorstep," c......

Patients walk in the physical therapy gym, a man stretches out on the bed of an open MRI machine, a technician shoots an X-ray, a young girl hops on a table in a casting room and a woman holds her bandaged arm in front of her as she is wheeled out of surgery. Business is humming at Orthopedic A......

Kelsey Brayman was in the middle of a soccer game — her team versus Warwick High School — when a collision with another player ended her season as a forward. Brayman, 18, now a senior at Manheim Township High School, tore her anterior cruciate ligament. More commonly referred to as ......

Wayne Wiggins hopes surgery on Thursday will finally cure the pain he has endured since his car was rear-ended more than six years ago. It will be the third cervical procedure for Wiggins. This time, though, he'll get an artificial disk that will allow him to retain movement. Dr. Perry......

Embarrassment often gets in the way of remedies for stress incontinence in women. Also called "leakage" in roundabout terms, stress incontinence involves urine leaking when a person coughs, sneezes, laughs or lifts something."It's a tough topic," according to Sharee......

The public got its first look Tuesday at a new $12 million outpatient surgery center at the southwest corner of Lancaster General Health Campus.The first patient is scheduled to be seen Oct. 15 at Physicians' Surgery Center, Spring Valley and Rohrerstown roads.With five operatin......

Lancaster County residents will have another place to undergo outpatient surgery, when the Physicians' Surgery Center opens next month on the Lancaster General Health Campus. The center is on the first floor of a $12 million three-story brick building at Spring Valley and Rohrerstown roa......

For Christine Fulmer, her decision in December 1995 to receive one of Lancaster County's first-ever laser-corrective eye surgeries was a momentous one. After all, the procedure had received federal approval only a handful of weeks previous."I was a little nervous at the time, but ......

Since the dawn of time, people have shaved, plucked, waxed and otherwise yanked unwanted hair. But it always grew back. Eventually electrolysis promised a more permanent solution. But to some people, zapping individual hair follicles with an electrified needle takes too long and hurts too ......

When Joe Golden of Lancaster walked into Manor Animal Hospital to neuter and spay cats Suki and Layla, respectively, the veterinarian told him about a new declawing procedure. By using a laser. "It is a beautiful way to [declaw cats] and causes close to no harm for them," said Go......

Welcome to the wacky world of health-care payments. A new state report shows there is apparently little rhyme or reason for payments made for heart surgery. For example, you might think that hospitals that charge more for bypass surgery get paid more, and hospitals that charge less get pai......

Anna Hertzog recently received a unique gift from her husband of 34 years. David Hertzog broke his leg three and a half years ago after falling off the rollback truck he drove for RC Towing. Surgery to repair the clean break in Hertzog's fibula required a stainless steel plate and seve......

Don't let the numbers fool you. John Parrish is happy. Despite a 4.50 earned run average after three spring outings, the relief pitcher from Lancaster says he's pleased with his progress on the comeback trail with the Baltimore Orioles. On Wednesday, Parrish allowed a bunt single ......

On Valentine's Day 2005, Dr. Anthony Joseph Mauriello Jr. replaced Margaret Rutter's left knee at Lancaster Regional Medical Center. Seven months after the operation, complaining of pain and walking with a cane, Mrs. Rutter sought help at Hershey Medical Center. Dr. William Parrish......

Thirty-two patients who believed their doctors provided negligent care filed malpractice lawsuits in Lancaster County in 2004. The same number sued in 2005. Last year the number jumped to 40 — a 25 percent increase. Why? One reason clearly is the rising number of legal acti......

The 64,070-square-foot, three-story medical office building will be constructed at 2150 Harrisburg Pike, at the intersection of Roherstown and Spring Valley roads on the Lancaster General Health Campus.

The state-of-the-art medical office building will be anchored by an Ambulatory Surgery Cen...

A. If you are not already an exerciser, it may not be wise to start on an intense, vigorous exercise program right before you are scheduled for a procedure. Instead, it may be better to get in touch with a physical therapist to start making plans for your recovery and for a safe, progressive exercis...

Ten-year-old Ronal Soto made that journey this summer from his home in the Central American nation to an Ephrata Community Hospital operating room. There, Dr. Chris Theodoran performed kidney surgery on the boy at no cost. Theodoran, who practices with Urological Associates of Lancaster, met R......

It appears that the problem was a lot more serious than that. The Baltimore Orioles confirmed Wednesday that Parrish, the Lancaster native who pitched for McCaskey, underwent Tommy John surgery in the last “5 or 6 days.’’ Tommy John surgery, named after the former Los Angeles Dodgers lefthande......

The maestro was recovering Wednesday at Christiana Hospital in Delaware. A symphony spokesperson said he was doing well.

David Hayes, music director of Philadelphia Singers, will conduct the symphony's Independence Day concert at Long's Park in Gunzenhauser's stead.

"We'......

The couple got engaged right at the start of their makeover and the show sponsored a fairy tale wedding for them at Disney World. They wouldn't reveal their new selves to each other until the wedding ceremony.

This was meant to warm our hearts. All it did was creep me out, depress me and ...

We got an answer to the first question last week, when an MRI revealed torn cartilage in Furyk's left wrist. It forced him to withdraw from the Bay Hill Classic and this week's Players Championship.

On Tuesday we got an answer to the second question.

The Manheim Township grad and d...

The thing Molina, who grew up in Ecuador, finds challenging is learning English.

In the front row of an English-as-a-second-language class Monday, Molina hesitated when the teacher invited him to the blackboard to sketch a timeline of his life. The exercise was part of a lesson on past-tense ...