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Baby boomers need hepatitis C testing
All baby boomers should get tested for hepatitis C, the virus that can lead to liver disease, cancer and death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in 30 boomers is infected and most don't know -- read about that in this...Tags: Symptoms, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hepatitis, Disease Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses
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Technician charged with infecting N.H. patients with hepatitis C worked in Md.
Four Maryland hospitals will be contacting patients who might have come in contact with a health care worker infected with hepatitis C when he worked in the state between 2008 and 2010, according to the state health department.
David Matthew Kwiatkowski,...Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hepatitis, Medical Procedures and Tests, Prosecution, Viral Diseases and Infections
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1,750 had possible contact with technician with hepatitis C
Four Maryland hospitals are offering free hepatitis C testing to at least 1,750 patients who may have been exposed to the viral disease by a traveling medical technician, as state officials launch a broad regulatory review in response to the case. The...
Tags: Theft, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Specialization
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State board says it can regulate compounding pharmacies
The state board that regulates Maryland pharmacies like the Massachusetts firm under investigation in a national fungal meningitis outbreak said it can adequately oversee so-called compounding pharmacies, despite cries from critics that the federal...
Tags: Edward J Markey, Food and Drug Administration, Retraining, Annapolis, National Government
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Maryland confirms first hepatitis C case linked to arrested med tech
Health officials in Maryland confirmed Monday the state's first hepatitis C case directly linked to traveling medical technician David Kwiatkowski, whose arrest by federal law enforcement officials in July in connection with a hepatitis C outbreak in...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Veterans Affairs, Johns Hopkins Hospital, International Military Interventions, Diseases and Illnesses
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Suspect in hepatitis C outbreak portrayed as traveling addict
When David Kwiatkowski was found slurring his words and smelling of alcohol in a Boston-area hotel room littered with prescription pills late one July night, his life as a traveling medical technician had largely unraveled already. In his early 30s, he...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Theft, Pharmaceuticals, General Practitioners, Prosecution
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Report finds state oversight of compounding pharmacies lax
As Massachusetts closed another compounding pharmacy for unsanitary conditions, a report released Monday argued that the state boards that regulate those pharmacies are doing an inadequate job.
Released by Massachusetts Rep. Edward J. Markey, the...Tags: Edward J Markey, Food and Drug Administration, American Medical Association, Annapolis, Hospitals and Clinics
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David Simon's 'Homicide' cop battling life on the streets once again
March 11, 2012
Seven-baker-twenty-four unit turns at Mosher and rumbles past that stretch of Appleton Street where Gene Cassidy took two in the head for the company, the first one stealing his eyesight, the second lodging in his brain beyond the skill...Tags: Theft, University of Maryland Medical Center, Prosecution, Demographics, Diabetes
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Police turn out at blood drive in honor of injured officer
Those who work in public safety consider themselves part of a brotherhood. But for the purposes of organ donation, a brother in blue may not be quite family enough, as Officer Gene Cassidy is finding out.
Cassidy was shot in the head 27 years ago in West...Tags: Charity, University of Maryland Medical Center, Cirrhosis, Human Body, Emergency Health Procedures
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Advisory panel calls for end to most experiments on chimpanzees
Medical experiments on chimpanzees are largely unnecessary and should be rare, concluded a report released Thursday from special panel of the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Science.
The authors did not recommend an outright ban,...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Medical Research
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Why baby boomers should be tested for hepatitis C
Medical Edge from Mayo ClinicDEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently heard that the CDC now recommends baby boomers be tested for hepatitis C. Is that true? If so, why is testing necessary? Wouldn't I have symptoms if I had the disease? ANSWER: It is true that the U.S. Centers for Disease...Tags: Symptoms, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biopsy
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'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez died of lymphoma, coroner finds
California prison officials said Monday that the death this month of "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez was due to complications from lymphoma, a cancer often associated with hepatitis. Ramirez, a serial killer convicted of murdering 13 people and brutally...
Tags: Murder, Prisons, Lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, Substance Abuse
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