Premier Medical Group is pleased to announce that Dr. Farah M. Ashraf will be joining our group on August 4, 2014. Dr. Ashraf, is board certified in Rheumatology, earned her medical degree from the University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine and completed a Rheumatology fellowship at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, […]
Over 30 million people in the United States are living with chronic liver disease. This includes patients with Hepatitis C, Cirrhosis (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), Fatty liver disease and Autoimmune Hepatitis. While Hepatitis C is not vaccine preventable, the CDC recommends Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B vaccination for people who have any chronic liver disease. You […]
Manage your Healthcare Online, Anytime Premier Medical Group continues to look for ways to improve communication with our patients. We are excited to present Premier’s online Patient Portal as another step towards creating more efficient and effective communication between you and our office. The Patient Portal is part of your personal electronic health record, and […]
A large-scale study published earlier this year in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) cast doubt on the usefulness of mammograms for breast cancer screening. PremierHealth spoke to Dr. Lorraine Nardi of our Internal Medicine division to help clarify the matter. I believe the recent talk about changes in mammography guidelines over the last year has […]
A clinical trial conducted by the Research Division of Premier Medical Group has contributed to the development of a new combination of drugs for the treatment of Hepatitis C that not only promises a cure for many patients but brings eradication of the disease into view. This April, an article co-authored by Premier Medical Group’s […]
To better serve our patients, Premier Medical Group’s Urology Division Fishkill Office will be seeing patients at our new location, 400 Westage Business Center Drive, Suite 210 in Fishkill, effective July 8, 2014. Westage Business Center Drive is conveniently located off of Rt. 9 and less than a 1/2 of a mile from I-84. The […]