Health & Wellness
Elusive cure
Second of six chapters: For nearly a decade, Dr. Leisha Emens has been driven to develop a vaccine to stop breast cancer
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Promoted by the U.S. as a treatment for opiate addiction, buprenorphine has become one more item for sale in the drug market. Reporter Jonathan Bor and photographer Kim Hairston spent over a year working on this two-part series exploring the roots of the HIV epidemic in Baltimore. The Sun investigates the potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug known as Recombinant Activated Factor VII. Nearly a century later, the people who lived through it and the victims' families still recall their experiences with the flu. The Sun received permission from R.J. Voigt, his mother, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center to be present during the last four weeks of R.J.'s life, except, at his mother's request, his death. |
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Md. dermatologist helps Indonesian 'Treeman'
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Pediatricians double vitamin D recommendations
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Expert advice: Flu shots recommended for most kids
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Calming the mind's chatter
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Eat This Instead: Deep-dish pizza vs. tossed
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Names in the news
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Calendar
Today
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The trial of their lives
October 12, 2008
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25% of teen girls vaccinated for cervical cancer, U.S. says
October 10, 2008
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After cancer surgery, woman is a model of recovery
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Goucher apartment bedbugs send some scrambling
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Mental health coverage expands in Balto. Co.
October 09, 2008
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Plunge in markets brings another kind of depression
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Drugmakers promise to relabel cold remedies as wrong for kids under 4
October 08, 2008
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Nobel panel snubs Baltimore's Gallo in HIV prize
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Study links fan's use to lower risk of SIDS
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Colon tests can halt for most over 75
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Maryland to revise medevac guidelines
October 07, 2008
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Acid reflux disease hits Americans hard
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Baltimore Running Festival is a relative thing for this bunch
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Expert advice: Alcohol not the only cause of cirrhosis
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Mental-health care coverage gets a boost
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Secondary infections raise flu deaths
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Family doctors group offers some quick pointers on how to be a good parent
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Names in the news
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Calendar
October 06, 2008
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Advantages of medevac transport challenged
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Hopkins scientist may be among Nobel winners
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Edwards found 'refuge' in her health care work
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Obama, critical of McCain's health care plan, says he would cancel tax cuts
October 05, 2008
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Assurance by FDA on melamine
October 04, 2008
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FDA rejects call for ban on kids' cold medicines
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HIV infection estimated at 1.1 million in U.S.
October 03, 2008
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Computers can help spot cancer on mammograms
October 02, 2008
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Howard health program reaches out to uninsured
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Study traces AIDS virus origin to 100 years ago
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Copter crash raises doubt on trauma care
October 01, 2008
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Medevac helicopter lacked equipment
September 30, 2008
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Exercisers are putting the hip in fitness with unusual options
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Expert advice: Steps to start a walking program
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Knee surgery may not be best option
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Exercises to strengthen back
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If your child says he hates school, you should try to make learning fun
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Eat this instead: Croissant vs. coffee roll
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Cadbury recalls chocolates over tainted milk fears
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Names in the news
September 29, 2008
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Those who feel left out in the cold feel colder
September 28, 2008
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Two state firms win anthrax vaccine contracts
September 27, 2008
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Anti-disease partnership looks for Frederick site

