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Checkmate Cancer in HdG on Saturday
Harford County residents are being asked to support two worthy fundraisers to benefit two families of sick children. The fundraisers are to benefit the family of a 9-year-old boy, who's been battling cancer, and the other to benefit the family whose 4...
Tags: Havre de Grace, Harford County, Business, Oncology, Health Treatments
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Bob Turley, former Orioles pitcher, dies
Bob Turley, a hard-throwing right-hander who won the Orioles’ first home game, died of liver cancer early Saturday morning, according to his son Terry Turley. He was 82. Turley pitched one season for the Orioles in 1954, their first in Baltimore,...
Tags: Memorial Stadium, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Chicago White Sox, Fort McHenry
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Hopkins team explains owls' head-turning abilities
Owls can rotate their heads a dizzying 270 degrees, allowing them to see what's happening behind them while perched on a tree branch or barn beam. This evolutionary adaptation helps the birds keep their fixed-socket, binocular eyes trained on the...
Tags: Howard Hughes, Physiology, Chevy Chase, Injuries and Wounds, Stroke
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Little miracles: Columbia's The Little Things for Cancer supports patients and their caregivers
As a caregiver, Richard DeCaro knows that a little kindness goes a long way. And now he has a local nonprofit organization to thank for making his life a little easier. The Dorsey’s Search resident began taking care of his wife, Ellen, in 2008...
Tags: Personal Service, Howard County, Breast Cancer, Howard County General Hospital, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Rosemary E. Allulis, lawyer
Rosemary E. Allulis, a lawyer and world traveler who was also a photographer and musician, died Tuesday of liver cancer at her Villa Cresta home. She was 52.
"She was a genius. She had a fast mind and was such a good writer," said Sidney Friedman, a...Tags: Legal Service, Medical Specialization, Pikesville, Business Enterprises, Community College of Baltimore County
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Harford Friends eighth-graders visit Johns Hopkins HeLa Lab
At Harford Friends School, an unusual field trip for middle school resulted from an equally unusual assignment for Cheryl Foley's science class: reading and discussing "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Eighth-graders from Harford Friends School...Tags: Schools, Students, Science, Trips and Vacations, Quakerism
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Mary Love Mezzanotte, lawyer
Mary Love Mezzanotte, a registered nurse who later became a lawyer, died Thursdayof liver cancer at her West Friendship home. She was 56.
The daughter of a career naval officer and a homemaker, Mary Love Green was born in the Canal Zone in Panama and...Tags: Salem (Salem, Virginia), Medical Specialization, Howard County, Lawyers, Health and Medical Professionals
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Hampden Family Center plays Santa to children who need help at holidays
Blayr Callaway, 19, who is raising her 8-year-old niece as well as her 2-year-old daughter, was in a familiar setting, at the Hampden Family Center's annual Holiday Party. It's the center Callaway comes to throughout the year for social services ranging...
Tags: Anglicanism, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Holidays, Roland Park, Christianity
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Rita Le Gette, former teacher, homemaker
Rita Frances Le Gette, a former teacher and homemaker, died Thursday of liver cancer at her Severna Park home, surrounded by her family. She was 74. Friends described a woman always willing to put others before herself and lend a helping hand. "When...
Tags: Huntington Station, Music, Peace Corps, Christianity, Severna Park
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Taneytown foundation give $5M to Carroll hospital, hospice campaign
Carroll Hospital Center and Carroll Hospice announced this week that the Taneytown-based Kahlert Foundation has donated $5 million to the "Campaign to Cure & Comfort, Always," a $22 million community fundraising initiative. This is the first multi-...Tags: Healthcare Provider, Cancer, Elections, Political Fundraising, Diabetes
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Baby boomers unknowingly infected with hepatitis C
When Alan Shackelford's ankles would swell up, he brushed it off as another sign of getting older — only to find out it was a symptom of something much worse.
The 59-year-old Windsor Mill man was shocked when his doctor recently diagnosed him...Tags: Symptoms, Petroleum Industry, Recreational Substance Use, Cirrhosis, AIDS
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Breakthrough of the week: Weed-based cancer drug
Description: Researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug that can travel through the bloodstream and act solely on specific cancer proteins. The drug comes from a weed known as Thapsia garganica, which grows in Mediterranean countries and has for...Tags: Cancer, Health Treatments, Blood, Prostate, Chemotherapy
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