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As temperatures rise, Harford health officials warn of risks from heat-related illnesses
As temperatures climbed into the 90s around Harford County Memorial Day weekend, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene activated its state heat emergency website http://dhmh.maryland.gov/extremeheat to provide information about preventing...Tags: Science, Overweight, Weight, Fever, Heat Stroke
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University of Maryland, Baltimore to revamp teaching on pain
As part of a federal project aimed at better treating pain, the University of Maryland, Baltimore will begin revamping the way it teaches future doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
Pain affects approximately 100 million Americans and their...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Pain, University of New Mexico, Harvard, National Institutes of Health
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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: Methadone (drug), Food and Drug Administration, Hospitals and Clinics, Vicodin (drug), Vaccines
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Industry practices are at the center of debate on horse safety
Maryland trainer Chris Grove knows all too well that racehorses sometimes take fatal missteps. It happened to one of his best horses last summer during a morning workout, and Grove likens the experience to losing a child. To Grove, the animals' broken...
Tags: Lasix (drug), Glenn W. Thompson, Tom Udall, Broken Bones, Punishment
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Report: Clinical trials of new medications help create jobs in Maryland
Maryland has hosted 1,775 clinical trials for new medicines targeting six major chronic diseases since 1999, including 369 that are still in the early stages of recruiting patients, according to a study by two pharmaceutical industry groups released...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Jack Markell, Diseases and Illnesses
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Columbia firm is world's first to market with stem cell drug
A Columbia-based biotechnology company said this week it received the world’s first government approval to market a stem cell drug, in Canada. Osiris Therapeutics, founded in 1992, spent 17 years developing a stem cell therapy that offers anti-...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Drug Trafficking, Biotechnology Industry, Technology, University of Maryland, College Park
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Maryland high court blocks request to reconsider DNA ruling
Maryland's highest court rejected a request to reconsider an April ruling that blocks state law enforcement from collecting DNA samples when a suspect is arrested, court officials said Friday.
The decision puts the case on track for an appeal to the U.S....Tags: Police Arrests, Criminals, Douglas F. Gansler, Biotechnology Industry, Law Enforcement
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Maryland looking to beef up vaccine requirements
Maryland's children would be required to get more vaccines before attending school under a proposal being considered by state health officials.
But doctors and state health officials said most children are already getting the shots and that they are...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Family, Meningitis, Preventative Medicine
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DNA testing: Rodricks' Orwellian vision of the future
Dan Rodricks, whose essays I admire, is entitled to be wrong once in awhile ("DNA: Why wait for an arrest?" May 3). His willingness to subject everyone to DNA testing for use in solving future crimes is a concept very much in tune with George Orwell's...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Human Body, DNA
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The medical establishment is ill-suited to deal with America's obesity epidemic
You did a write up on HBO's documentary "The Weight of the Nation" in which you called our obesity epidemic a wake up call for America ("Salad bars take root," May 1). Nothing new here. The alarm bells have been sounding for a while now. I am an...Tags: Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Stroke, Weight, High Blood Pressure
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Al-Qaida releases video of hostage from Rockville
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a video released Sunday by al-Qaida, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands. "My life is in your hands, Mr. President," Weinstein said in...Tags: Ayman al-Zawahri, Pakistan, Washington, DC, Pharmaceuticals, Heart Problems
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Md. to get $1.8 million in Abbott settlement over drug marketing
Maryland is slated to receive $1.8 million for its part in a national settlement with Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories over allegations of illegal drug marketing, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said Monday. Abbott will pay $100 million to 44...Tags: Migraine, Food and Drug Administration, Marketing, Douglas F. Gansler, Schizophrenia
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