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  • What Can a Heart Scan Tell You? Calcium Scoring and CCTA

    Heart disease is often silent until it leads to a heart attack or stroke. A CT heart scan can detect early warning signs, helping you and your doctor assess your risk and take preventive action.  What a Heart Scan Reveals About Your Health  Doctors can use many tests to understand your heart health. For example,…

  • Abdominal CT Scan: Understanding a Valuable Diagnostic Tool

    If you are experiencing stomach pain, blood in your urine, or other concerning symptoms involving the abdomen, you want answers and relief as quickly as possible. An imaging test called an abdominal CT scan can bring you closer to both. Physicians might not be able to see or feel the cause of abdominal symptoms with…

  • How Long Does an MRI Take? What You Need to Know

    To find the cause of a sore knee, aching back, or another irritating or concerning symptom, your physician needs an inside look. For that, they may order a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the tissues, muscles, organs, or blood vessels in question to inform diagnosis and a treatment plan. One of your next questions…

  • How Lumbar Spine MRI Can Help Identify the Cause of Low Back Pain

    Low back pain is one of the most common medical complaints among adults. Aging-related changes can affect your spine as early as your 30s or younger, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. These changes may set the stage for low back pain later in life. If pain develops, your physician may turn to…

  • Diagnostic Mammogram: Demystifying Additional Imaging

    After having your annual screening mammogram, you may be called back for an additional imaging exam called a diagnostic mammogram so the radiologist can take a closer look at an area of concern seen in the initial mammogram. You may be wondering why you need another mammogram, what to expect, what more imaging might show,…

  • Dense Breast Tissue and Your Breast Health

    How well do you know your breasts? If you perform a monthly breast self-exam, you’re probably familiar with how your breasts normally look and feel. That’s great because it can help you identify changes your primary care physician may want to investigate. There’s something else you should know about your breasts that you can’t learn…

  • Friday, March 7th – Pink Ribbon Meat Raffle for Windsong Cares Foundation

    Don’t miss out! Buy your tickets soon…last year’s Pink Ribbon Meat Raffle was a sell-out. Please help us raise funds to assist WNY breast cancer patients.

  • Changes to the Board

    At their December 17, 2024 meeting, the Windsong Cares Foundation Board of Directors elected Liz Milks as a director to fill a vacancy. Additionally, Marielle Ferstenberg, DO, was elected Vice-President.  Pictured are the following members of the Windsong Cares Foundation Board from left to right: Dawn Schlee, Treasurer; Raja Cheruvu, MD, FACR, President; Jolene Wilson,…

  • Why Winter is the Hot Time for Varicose Vein Treatment

    As the weather turns cold, covering your legs is a matter of staying warm and comfortable. Next summer, however, you may be wearing pants, long dresses, or leggings for a different reason: to hide varicose veins. Those dark, bulging, twisted blood vessels visible just under the surface of the skin can affect your self-confidence, activity…

  • Just the (Mammogram) Facts: Debunking 10 Common Myths

    Screening mammography is a cornerstone of women’s health care, but myths about this important type of breast imaging persist. Let’s debunk some common ones and explore key mammogram facts. 1. Myth: Regular mammograms are only for older women. Fact: One out of every six breast cancers develops in women ages 40 to 49, according to…