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Judge S. Ann Brobst, longtime Baltimore County prosecutor
Judge S. Ann Brobst, who during her three-decade career as an assistant state's attorney earned a reputation for being a tough but fair prosecutor that led to her to appointment in 2009 to the Baltimore County Circuit Court, died Monday evening of...
Tags: Laws, Justice System, Charles Street, Pancreatic Cancer, DNA
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AIDS progress at risk
As we prepare to mark World AIDS Day tomorrow, the U.S. government this week announced a blueprint for achieving an AIDS-free generation. The plan to confront AIDS globally outlines goals and objectives that take into account groundbreaking scientific...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Conservation, Global Expansion, National Institutes of Health, Research
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Telephone call could convince people to take medicine, study finds
A simple automated telephone call may be enough to convice people to take their medicine, a study by Kasier Permanente has found. As part of the study, an automated telephone call was made to patients on cholesteral-reducing drugs who hadn't picked up...
Tags: Medical Research, Drugs and Medicines, Pharmaceuticals
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DNA evidence on Cowboys hat enough to indict man in Columbia armed robbery
A Laurel teenager was indicted on armed robbery and assault charges after police matched his DNA to DNA found on a Dallas Cowboys hat left at the scene of a December 2011 armed robbery of a Columbia woman inside her home. Haanief Singley, 19, of the...
Tags: Howard County, Theft, DNA, Biotechnology Industry, Maryland State Police
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Howard County program director's research cited in Nobel-winning work
Scientific research is like running a marathon, said Gloria Jacobovitz: The hours are long and the work is hard, but a discovery is like crossing the finish line. "It's a rush when you discover something," she said. "When you find out something you were...
Tags: Technology, Howard County, Science, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania
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The what-if prescription
Leave it to some thoughtful physicians to put good medicine ahead of good politics. Last year, the Obama administration wrongly chose to limit access of teens to the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B. This week, pediatricians are urging their...
Tags: Hormones and Metabolism, Plan B (drug), Health Treatments, American Academy of Pediatrics, Kathleen Sebelius
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Baltimore firm aims to turn food waste into green business
Many people see Thanksgiving leftovers as too much of a good thing and toss them out. Vinnie Bevivino wants those uneaten castoffs and more — he sees a chance to make some green with them while going green. Bevivino, 31, is the owner of...
Tags: Environmental Politics, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Carroll County (Maryland), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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In meningitis outbreak, fear lingers for patients with few answers
A national outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a tainted steroid killed two Marylanders. Nearly two dozen people living with the disease and hundreds of others who may have been exposed fear they may be next. Sheila Smelkinson began suffering in...
Tags: Justice System, St. Mary's County, Steroids, Dundalk, Lawyers
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O'Malley wants to extend law to allow DNA collection from crime suspects
In an attempt to keep one of his signature initiatives alive, Gov. Martin O'Malley wants state lawmakers to reauthorize police to collect DNA samples from crime suspects before the current statute expires later this year. The release of the Democratic...
Tags: Laws, Judges, Baltimore County, Justice System, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Ask the pet expert: anesthesia
When my Chihuahua had her teeth cleaned last week, the vet said her heart rate went down into the high 60s and that an episode of second-degree heart block occurred, but they reversed it with meds. Does this mean she is at risk of it happening again under...
Tags: Pets, Dentistry and Dental Health, Heart Problems, Bradycardia, Procedural Sedation
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A calamity in the making for Maryland's economy
The spending cuts associated with the impending fiscal cliff — known more technically as sequestration — hold potentially ominous consequences for the U.S. economy, and for Maryland in particular, if the White House and Congress cannot...
Tags: Technology, Agriculture, Johns Hopkins University, National Institutes of Health, Research
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CIA's outrageous fake vaccination plot
The CIA is probably smug and triumphant about its duplicitous vaccination drive in Abbotabad, a mission hatched to catch and kill Osama bin Laden ("A tainted polio program," Jan. 7). As a doctor, I cringe to think of this unscrupulous use of medicine...Tags: Pakistan, Vaccines, Whooping Cough, Hepatitis B , Drugs and Medicines
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