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Local student to talk weight loss on 'The View'
Kaci DeWitt-Rickards remembers being a chunky kid with a steady diet of Burger King chicken tenders, vanilla milkshakes and Papa John's pizza. By her sophomore year in college at the University of Miami, her adolescent pudge had ballooned into a...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Weight Loss, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Physical Therapy
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Joseph A. Miklasz, attorney
Joseph A. Miklasz, a trial attorney who practiced in Glen Burnie and was a wine collector, died of cancer Sunday at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 71 and lived in Crownsville. Born in Baltimore, he was raised in Severn and in East Baltimore, where he...
Tags: Miami Hurricanes, Toll Brothers Inc, Catonsville, Roman Catholicism, George Washington
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'Autism is not disability'
April is National Autism Awareness Month, which naturally raises the question: awareness of what? As a parent of a 19-year old son with autism, if you had asked me that question years ago, I would have said things like, "Be aware that kids with autism...
Tags: Towson University, Behavioral Conditions, Ellicott City, Autism
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Margaret H. Abbott, genetics researcher
Margaret Hawkins Abbott, a retired Johns Hopkins Medical School genetics researcher who investigated families with inherited conditions for nearly five decades, died of dementia complications Feb. 1 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 89 and lived in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Alzheimer's Disease, Long Term Care, Nursing
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Center for simulated medicine opens in Anne Arundel County
A surgeon enters the operating room, offers his hands to a nurse and watches as she helps him into his rubber gloves with a snap. He glances at the patient on the table. A cloth covers the man's torso but for one area. Three trocars — tubes into...
Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Medical Procedures and Tests
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In Saint Rose, La., he's still small-town Edward Reed
The Baltimore SunEdward Reed was a mess. Jeanne Hall — the woman the Ravens safety calls a second mother — can't find any other way to put it when she thinks back to the classes he missed and the assignments he disregarded as a freshman at Destrehan High....Tags: Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, Football, Students, Billy Cundiff
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Ravens' Ray Lewis had dramatic impact on ex-Gilman star
Stan White Jr. showed up for a different type of workout on the hills of Oregon Ridge Park in June of 2000 with trainer Kurtis Shultz. White, then a rising junior football player at Gilman, was stunned to find who would be his workout partner —...
Tags: Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Colts, New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens, Detroit Lions
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Dr. William J. Weiner, UM chairman of neurology
Dr. William J. Weiner, a professor and chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who was nationally known for his work with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, died Dec. 29 of multiple myeloma...Tags: University of Chicago, Huntington's Disease, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Parkinson's Disease, Diseases and Illnesses
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Arline K. Howdon, Hopkins cytologist
Arline Kaye Howdon, who was chief cytologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital and was known nationally and internationally for her work in the field of cytopathology and education, died July 20 of lung cancer at her Harper House condominium in Cross Keys.
She...Tags: Coral Gables, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Public Health Service, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cancer
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Two new Eagles soar in Lutherville with a 'flaming' ceremony
Warren (Jonathan) Peake and Ryan Deise were presented with Boy Scouts highest rank, Eagle Scout at a special Court of Honor ceremony on July 11 at Broadcreek Boy Scout Reservation. The ceremony, dubbed the "Flaming Eagle," involves the lighting of a...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Baltimore County
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Marine biology focus helps Towson grad net fisherman scholarship
A recent Towson High School graduate's passion for marine biology has netted him a little extra scholarship money for college from the Maryland Saltwater Sportfisherman's Association. And when he begins classes in the fall at the University of Miami,...
Tags: Towson University, Towson, Financial Aid, Johns Hopkins University, Science
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Talking with O's scouting director Gary Rajsich about Ryan Ripken, signing players
Had the opportunity to talk to Orioles scouting director Gary Rajsich today. Here are some highlights. I’ll have a little more later. Rajsich was expecting to get financial permission at some point Thursday and then would begin negotiating with...
Tags: College Sports, Awards and Prizes, University of Virginia, Financial Aid, Ryan Ripken
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