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Teens forgo traditional summer jobs to build careers
Pikesville High School senior Josh Borris is working this summer, but he won't be paid. Completing a second summer as an intern at Correct Rx Pharmacy Services Inc. in Linthicum Heights, he said, is more valuable than earning money at a traditional summer...Tags: Pikesville, Johns Hopkins University, Linthicum, Labor Markets, Colleges and Universities
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Gloria Lea Bledsoe, school counselor
Dr. Gloria Lea Bledsoe, a retired Baltimore County guidance counselor who established an Oldfields School early-childhood education program, died of cancer May 30 at Glen Meadows Assisted Living. She was 85 and lived in Towson for many years.
Born Gloria...Tags: Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Baltimore County, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Towson University
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Governor promotes workplace health program
Gov. Martin O’Malley is looking for ways to trim his workforce – not the number of people, but their waistlines. The administration has launched a wellness program aimed at state workers. The governor known for his statistical analysis of...
Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Employees
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Elizabeth Ann Daly, DAR state regent
Elizabeth Ann Daly, who was a past Maryland state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died of congestive heart failure Monday at her Woodbine home. She was 91.
Born Elizabeth Ann Prentiss in Baltimore and raised in Howard Park, she was...Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Marketing, Howard County
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The high cost of waiting
As a nation, our collective attention is increasingly drawn to the way in which health care costs are crippling the economy. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services projects this cost, if unchecked, could rise to $3.4 trillion in 2015, a whopping...
Tags: General Practitioners, Government Health Care, Technology, Internists, Productivity
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Sun-smart kits The Learn to Live program of the Department of Health offers sun-smart kits to county residents. The kit contains a guidebook, ideas for sun accessories and information about skin cancer detection. To order a kit, call the Learn To Live...Tags: Breastfeeding, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Health Insurance Cost, Glen Burnie, Diabetes
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Senior briefs
Support groups The Department of Aging and Disabilities has updated a booklet on community support groups. The booklet focuses on groups for caregiving, Alzheimer's disease, bereavement for adults and children, diabetes, brain injury, cancer, stroke,...Tags: Physical Conditions, Annapolis, Nursing, Anne Arundel County, CVS Corp.
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Howard County health briefs
Blood donations The Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross is requesting blood donations. Eligible donors can call 800-GIVE-LIFE to schedule an appointment. Platelet donors should call 800-272-2123. Calendar...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Mental Illness, Ellicott City, Breast Cancer
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Commentary: One less sugar sweetened drink can make a difference
Growing up in Texas, I played fast pitch softball. After playing in the hot Texas sun, our team, the Sweetpeas, had a snack of oranges and water, in containers brought from home. Today, my husband and I are new Howard County residents and we have...Tags: Weight, Documentary (genre), Diseases and Illnesses, Howard County, Kidney Disease
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Doctors grapple with prostate cancer screening guidelines
For years, the PSA test has been the standard method for early detection of prostate cancer, which strikes one in six men.
But recently, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federal advisory panel, said the test that checks for prostate-specific...Tags: Medical Research, Erectile Dysfunction, Diseases and Illnesses, Oncology, Lung Cancer
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Edward E. Sommerfeldt, former Coppin chair
Edward E. Sommerfeldt, who founded the computer science program at Coppin State University where he taught for 39 years and served as a mentor to students and faculty, died May 14 of complications from brain cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was...Tags: Computer Science, Colleges and Universities, Coppin State University, Roman Catholicism, Applied Physics
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Goal of Baltimore Ravens chiropractor: raise $100,000 for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Doug Miller doesn't remember if it was moments, minutes or hours after he learned that he had an advanced stage of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008 when he determined how he would attack it. The Catonsville resident adopted the attitude he had as a swimmer...
Tags: Memorial Day, Chiropractic, Cam Cameron, Lymphoma, Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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