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Bay group warns of swimming after storms
Swimmers should avoid contact with tidal and fresh water for 48 hours after a big rain storm this summer, warns the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The precaution is suggested by state and county health departments, but foundation officials believe it’s...
Tags: Wildlife, Natural Resources, Medical Procedures and Tests, Skin Rash
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Treating menopause symptoms
Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Pharmaceuticals, Physical Conditions, Hampton Roads Transit
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Progress in Hepatitis C research
Hepatitis C has long been a problem with a low rate of cure. But new drug therapies are in use and others are on the horizon, according to Dr. Paul J. Thuluvath, chief of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center and the medical director of the Institute...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Minority Groups, Pharmaceuticals, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Cirrhosis
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From Sun Magazine: Grayson Gilbert's divine strength
May 19, 2011
The boy approached the marble statue, gazing up — miles up, as he remembers it now — into the face of the benevolent figure it depicted.
It was May 8, 1996, and Grayson Gilbert, 6, had a lot on his mind.
A few months earlier,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Blood, Arts, Maryland Terrapins, Diabetes
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How to treat minor animal bites, scratches
Animal bites can be serious. They can injure the skin and bones and joints, and the damage could have lasting impacts. Dr. Tanveer Giaibi, chief of emergency medicine at Northwest Hospitals, answers questions about the dangers of and treatments for all...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Abdominal Pain, Bones and Joints, Lymphatic System
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Marvin Webster dead at 56
Marvin Webster lived the good life at Morgan State University in the early 1970s. He was the "Human Eraser," a 7-foot-1 shot blocker who intimidated opponents on the basketball court and who charmed friends and teammates off it with his caring, selfless...Tags: Charles V Bennett, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks
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Hepatitis C fatality shrouded in mystery
Sun StaffLike thousands of other patients do every year, John Leto walked into a Glen Burnie cardiology clinic last October for a routine cardiac stress test. But what happened over the next two months wasn't so routine: The 79-year-old retired ironworker...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Religious Festivals, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Ailing system struggles with inmate care
Sun StaffIn mid-March 2002, Marcella N. Leski, 39, was jailed for failing to appear in court on a drug-possession charge. Twelve days later, she was so ill that her legs were amputated below the knees. Her family alleges in a lawsuit that the prison contractor'...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Medical Services, Healthcare Policies, Arts, Diseases and Illnesses
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Douglass still struggling
Sun StaffNext month, Charles McDaniels will graduate from Frederick Douglass High School, the alma mater of civil rights attorney and former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. McDaniels' graduation date will come 50 years and a month after Marshall, then...Tags: Frederick Douglass, Baptist, NAACP, Civil Rights, Arts
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Subject of 'Drunk in Public' died of heart disease
Decades of alcohol abuse and living on the streets took a severe toll on the body of a Newport Beach homeless man found dead earlier this year, an Orange County Sheriff-Coroner report shows. Mark David Allen, 50, had an enlarged heart, liver disease...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Diseases and Illnesses, Alcohol Addiction, Substance Abuse, Heart Disease
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Who should be tested for Hepatitis C?
Baby boomer alert! The government has come out with a draft recommendation that all those born between 1945 and 1965 be tested for Hepatitis C. The virus that causes chronic infections in eight of 10 affected and leads to liver disease, was first...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Cirrhosis, Medical Procedures and Tests, Liver Cancer, Hepatitis C
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