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Hopkins researchers aim to uncover which mobile health applications work
Those looking to lose weight, quit smoking or keep tabs on a malady have a lot of choices in the smartphone app stores. Choosing one that's beneficial is more of a problem.
Science is still trying to catch up to the market for mobile health applications,...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Food and Drug Administration, Weight Watchers International Incorporated, Television Industry, Health and Safety at Work
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New Arundel health officer saw AIDS epidemic up close
Dr. Angela Wakhweya began her medical career in her native Uganda, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, where she saw many patients, friends and even some family members succumb to the deadly disease.
The experience propelled her...Tags: Weight, Anne Arundel County, Disease Prevention, Health and Safety at School, Uganda
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Female condoms prevent new HIV infections
A female condom program was highly effective in preventing HIV infections, according to a new economic analysis by researchers in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The analysis, published in the journal AIDS and Behavior, found the...Tags: HIV
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The hottest issue: Climate change dwarfs other problems
An optimist might want to raise a glass as 2011 winds down. U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by New Year's Eve. The global AIDS pandemic is ebbing. And the U.S. unemployment rate dropped by nearly half a percent in November.
But an optimist would have to...Tags: New Year's Day, Republican Party, Global Warming, Iraq, Diseases and Illnesses
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Rotunda Giant makes a quiet exit
Edith Bershadsky, of Tuscany-Canterbury, came to the Rotunda Giant shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday to buy a ticket for the record-breaking, $540 million Mega-Millions jackpot. But by the time she got there, Giant Food officials had already removed the...
Tags: Cathy Bevins, Rite Aid Corp., Canterbury, Lotteries, Movies
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Local biotech firm wins grant to develop vaccines for two viruses
Profectus BioSciences Inc., a Baltimore-based biotechnology company, said Wednesday that it won a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the development of a vaccine for a pair of contagious and deadly viruses that the U.S....Tags: Vaccines, Financial Aid, Disease Prevention, Health and Safety at School, Companies and Corporations
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'Fela!' celebrates influential Nigerian musician, activist
He pioneered one the most influential, far-reaching musical genres of the past 50 years. He became a galvanizing force, too, in the cause of human rights. When he died, more than a million people turned out to witness his funeral cortege. Among those...Tags: Bob Dylan, Entertainment Events, Paul McCartney, Broadway Theater, Jada Pinkett Smith
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Pneumonia is biggest killer of young kids, study shows
Around the globe, the leading cause of death for children under age 5 is pneumonia, according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
About 18 percent of the deaths are from the infection. That’s 1.4 million kids...Tags: Diarrhea, Malaria, Pneumonia, Measles, Tetanus
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Same-sex marriage seals Obama's fate as a one-term president
Barack Obama made himself a one-term president last week by telling ABC, "I think that same-sex couples should be able to get married." Up till now, he was politically savvy, saying his position was "evolving." But in repealing the military's "don't ask,...
Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage
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Commentary: Better late than never, a 20-year friendship gets a wedding day
The apartment in Baltimore was on the top floor of a towering building, with appointments fit for royalty. Thick carpeting invited guests to remove their shoes, letting the woolen fibers caress, as if playing footsies. Chris and Landry liked it that way....Tags: Barack Obama, Same-Sex Marriage, Cancer, Marriage, Family
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FDA takes steps increase supply of cancer drugs
A host of prescription drugs have been in low supply around the United States for some time, but doctors have been warning about a particularly acute shortage of a set of life-saving cancer drugs. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Leukemia, Methotrexate (drug), Food and Drug Administration, Ovarian Cancer
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Baltimore dancer steps into role with prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre
Gifted with a mother's second sight, Catherine Johnson knew her daughter Jacqueline Green better than the child knew herself.
In 2004, the eighth-grader insisted she had absolutely zero desire to study dance. "Oh, Mom," she said, rolling her eyes. "Why...Tags: Baltimore School for the Arts, Alvin Ailey, The Hunt (movie), Entertainment Events, Artscape
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