
Dr. Judith L Balk MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
300 Halket St Suite 0610 Pittsburgh PA, 15213About
Dr. Judith Balk is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Balk specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Balk can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Balk can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 1990
RAYMOND & RUTH PERELMAN SCH OF MED AT UNIV OF PA 1990
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Nutrient involvement in preeclampsia.
- The common diseases of practicing dentists.
- Problems in providing medical care and economic redress to injured workers: the physician's responsibility: ethical and legal considerations.
- Problems in providing medical care and economic redress to injured workers: the physician's responsibility: ethical and legal considerations.
- Efficacy and safety of vaginal estriol and progesterone in postmenopausal women with atrophic vaginitis.
- Brief relaxation training program for hospital employees.
- Melatonin osteoporosis prevention study (MOPS): a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study examining the effects of melatonin on bone health and quality of life in perimenopausal women.
- Effect of Sahaja yoga meditation on quality of life, anxiety, and blood pressure control.
- Pilot study of yoga for breast cancer survivors with poor quality of life.
- Yoga and quality-of-life improvement in patients with breast cancer: a literature review.
- What midlife women want from gynecologists: a survey of patients in specialty and private practices.
- Inhibition of the biosynthesis of uroporphyrinogen and heme in rat liver during obstructive jaundice produced by bile duct ligation.
- Altered blood levels of corticosteroids in the rat after exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
- Synthesis and biological activity of chloromethyl ketones of leucine enkephalin.
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1400 LOCUST STREET PITTSBURGH PA 15219UPMC MERCYl
1400 LOCUST STREET PITTSBURGH PA 15219JEFFERSON HOSPITALl
565 COAL VALLEY ROAD JEFFERSON HILLS PA 15025