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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Healthy living The Baltimore Washington Medical Center will present a discussion of diabetes prevention, exercise to achieve weight loss, and how to lower blood pressure and cholesterol from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. June 6 and from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. June...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Anne Arundel County, Viral Diseases and Infections, Vaccines, Communicable Diseases
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Implantable pain disk may help those with cancer
An estimated 3.5 million cancer patients around the globe are in severe pain from their disease, but many get no relief.
In poor countries the cost is considered too high for drugs like morphine when such opioids are often stolen, abused or not taken...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Morphine (drug), Vaccines, Prescription Drugs, Behavioral Conditions
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Harford council, so far, leaves transfer station in budget
Harford County Council members approved the first of what are expected to be several amendments to the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget during Tuesday's council meeting, including one to increase the amount of money earmarked for a new animal shelter in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Maryland General Assembly, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting, Employees
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Mossburg understands nothing about women who oppose restrictions on contraceptives
I take exception to the illogic displayed in columnist Marta H. Mossburg's recent commentary ("Biology really is destiny," April 25). She clearly understands nothing about women who oppose restrictions on contraceptives. Some of us think a prescription...Tags: Health Treatments, Employment Opportunities, Drugs and Medicines, Birth Control, Prescription Drugs
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Health reform has been critical for Maryland
With the Supreme Court reviewing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there is no shortage of legal analysis to handicap the decision. But unfortunately, not enough attention has been paid to the real value this law provides to millions of American families and...
Tags: Regional Authority, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care, Prescription Drugs, Business
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UVa. coach, officials sued over Yeardley Love's death
Sharon Love has sued the University of Virginia men's lacrosse coach and other athletic officials for negligence in the 2010 death of her daughter, Yeardley, saying they ignored previous violent, drunken behavior by the player who was ultimately convicted...Tags: George Huguely V, College Sports, Abusive Behavior, Health and Safety at School, University of Virginia
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What now? Legislative leaders decry budget cuts, say special session is needed
Democratic lawmakers limped out of Annapolis Tuesday having enacted a "doomsday" budget that slashes spending for education and other services they do not want to cut — and with no clear plan on how to fix a political mess of their own making....Tags: Government Debt, Andres Alonso, Republican Party, Regional Authority, Safety of Citizens
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Health complaint filed against asbestos removal company
An advocacy group filed a complaint Friday with the federal government alleging that a Baltimore-based company put hundreds of employees at risk by failing to protect them against asbestos. Alexandra Rosenblatt and Jonathan F. Harris, staff lawyers...Tags: Cancer, Labor Legislation, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Rawlings-Blake's budget: Solid, if uninspired
Baltimore MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blake's preliminary budget proposal for the next fiscal year displays some encouraging signs that, after three rocky years, city finances are stabilizing. Income tax revenues are ticking slightly upward in conjunction...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Layoffs and Downsizing, Property Tax, Taxation
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Making up for lost daylight saving time
Sure, the yearly switch to daylight saving time always puts some of us into a funk and a fog.
It's true that it's harder to concentrate on writing that legal brief or counting out the correct change. It can't be denied that to the sleep-deprived, small...Tags: Sleep Deprivation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, Medical Research
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Arundel firefighters add to county's public safety dissent
Anne Arundel County police officers and firefighters have made themselves clear: They don't believe the county's leadership can help their departments solve staffing and technological problems that they say pose a threat to public safety. The county...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Safety of Citizens, Labor Legislation, Anne Arundel Community College, Arbitration
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Black women in city infected with HIV at higher rate than national average
African-American women in Baltimore and five other U.S. cities are becoming infected with HIV at a rate five times the national average for black women, and closer to the rates of some African countries, according to a new study.
Researchers at the Johns...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Viral Diseases and Infections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Healthy Diet, Retroviruses
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