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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, Food and Drug Administration, Parkinson's Disease, OxyContin (drug), Hydromorphone (drug)
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New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care
When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon." The new...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lobbying, Sculpture, Fine Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Website to help doctors file health insurance complaints
The Maryland medical society and attorney general's office launched a website Saturday aimed at helping doctors file complaints with the state when insurance companies refuse to cover patient care. "Essentially, our goal was to educate our patients and...Tags: Lawyers, Health Insurance, Insurance, Justice System, Companies and Corporations
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Dozer the dog raises money for Maryland cancer center
The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center is hosting its annual Maryland Half Marathon this Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon in the Maple Lawn community of Howard County. This is the race made famous by Dozer the Dog, who ran much...
Tags: Running, Howard County, Road Running, Breast Cancer, Cancer
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Marion Snyder Goldstein, nurse
Marion Snyder Goldstein, a nurse who supervised operating rooms for decades at the now-closed Children's Hospital on Greenspring Avenue, died Tuesday at Stella Maris assisted living in Timonium. The longtime Baldwin resident was 92.
The family was not...Tags: Plastic Surgery, Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals, Timonium
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Consolidation wave poised to hit state's health care services, biopharma sectors
Like a one-two punch, two major Maryland employers in the health care service and pharmaceutical industries were the targets last week of multibillion-dollar acquisition deals. Both homegrown companies — Human Genome Sciences Inc. and Catalyst...Tags: Express Scripts Incorporated, Benlysta (drug), AstraZeneca Plc, Layoffs and Downsizing, Stock Market
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Brown: Health Enterprise Zones are fiscally and socially responsible
Stuart Butler's op-ed ("An enterprising approach to health," Feb. 29) on what our proposed Health Enterprise Zones (HEZs) can learn from urban "economic" enterprise zones is a valuable critique. His focus on incentives, innovation and community...Tags: Diabetes, Asthma
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Dr. Raymond L. Markley Jr.
Dr. Raymond L. Markley Jr., a retired Baltimore gynecologist whose specialty was female urology, died March 4 of pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
The former longtime Towson resident who was residing at Oak Crest Village, was 89.
The son of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Army, Endometrial cancer, Timonium, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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Local girls model in American Girl fundraiser
Models strutted down the runway, showing off the latest fashions in vintage and contemporary clothes.
But the event Sunday at the Hippodrome Theatre was no ordinary fashion show.
It was a fundraiser featuring girls ages 5 to 12 years old from across the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Fashion Trends, Towson, Fashion Shows, Hippodrome Theatre
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The wrong fix for Medicare
Medicare is in desperate need of reform. Program costs are spiraling out of control and threatening to bankrupt the country. Here in Maryland, on average, each Medicare enrollee costs about $11,400 per year — that's a thousand dollars higher than...
Tags: Baltimore County, Peter Orszag, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Government Health Care
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Diabetes drug may prevent liver tumors
Those with type II diabetes are at two to three times the risk of developing primary liver cancer. But new research from the University of Marylandshows that a common drug many patients already take may prevent the cancer. Studies on animals show that...Tags: Medical Research, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Liver Cancer, Diabetes, Cancer
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UMMS in expansion mode
Since becoming a part of the University of Maryland Medical System three years ago, Upper Chesapeake Health has attracted new doctors, broken ground on a new $60 million cancer center and won over patients who once left Harford County for care.
Upper...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Technology, Diabetes, Government Health Care, Orthopedic Surgery
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