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Kennedy Krieger researchers pinpoint cause of rare disease
It's a dream Ida Heck never really expected to come true. Her family has raised about $1 million since 2005 for research into the rare disorder that afflicts her 8-year-old daughter, Jenna, resulting in cognitive deficits, seizures, long-lasting...
Tags: Stroke, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Seizures, Migraine, Glaucoma
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Pets are great for (your) heart health
Love your pet with all your heart? It may not be just an emotional thing. Researchers said recently that having a pet may help reduce heart disease in humans. The American Heart Association released a study that said pet ownership, especially dog...
Tags: Medical Research, Animals, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes
Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...
Tags: Medical Research, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Entertainment Events, Harvard University
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Scrabble at the Bain Center
Activity Pals For single seniors. Get together with others to attend events, shop, go sightseeing, dine out and more. 301-596-6385. The Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way, Columbia. 410-313-7213. •Acting Up! Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. A theater...Tags: Scrabble (game), Wii, Diabetes, Chess Playing, Personal Service
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Angelina Jolie among growing number of women choosing mastectomy before cancer
Actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy rather than risk developing breast cancer hit close to home for Melissa DeSantis, a Bel Air mother of three children. As DeSantis read about Jolie's experience, she began to feel a sense of...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Women's Health, Mastectomy, Oncology, The New York Times
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Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation
"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Symptoms, Mastectomy, Cancer
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It's Lyme season [Editorial]
With some exceptions, any illness can strike anyone at any time. One of the more dangerous to emerge in recent decades is Lyme disease. Harford County, as many of us know either first-hand or because of someone we know, is not immune from the tick-borne...Tags: Lyme Disease, Allergies, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Symptoms, Arthritis
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HPV-related throat cancers multiplying
It is well known that HPV (human papillomavirus) can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well. Throat cancers caused by HPV are showing up typically in men with little or no history of smoking, said Dr. Kevin...
Tags: Preventative Medicine, Medical Research, Chemotherapy, Symptoms, Cancer
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Howard County health briefs
Screenings The county Health Department's North Laurel Health Center, 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road, will offer walk-in HIV/AIDS testing services from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Fridays and from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. by appointment: 410-313-0630. Also,...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Howard County General Hospital, HIV, Veterans Affairs, Dermatologists
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Harford County promotes Lyme disease awareness
As Harford County health and elected officials worked to alert the public to the dangers of Lyme disease during a County Council meeting Tuesday – noting many people close to them who have the chronic, tick-borne ailment – the council...
Tags: Rabies, Lyme Disease, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harford County, Borrelia infection
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Rabies prevention The Department of Health offers information on how to prevent the spread of rabies and what to do in the event of exposure. Rabies is most often seen in raccoons, bats, foxes and skunks. Information: 410-222-7168 or visit aahealth.org....Tags: Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Health and Safety at School, Recipes, Endometriosis
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For Hopkins researcher, battling MS is personal
Anna Whetstone, 23, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was 17. She was a high school junior in Hershey, Pa., playing on her school's field hockey team when she got hit in the head with a ball. "I was feeling fine at the time," she said,...
Tags: Medical Research, University of Maryland Medical Center, Field Hockey, Moravian College, National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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