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Closing deadly loopholes
In July, authorities discovered that a radiology technician who had worked in Maryland and several other states had been injecting himself with narcotics-filled syringes, refilling them with saline and leaving them behind for use on patients. More than 1,...
Tags: Timonium, Plastic Surgery, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Liposuction
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More than a dozen cases of mumps suspected at Loyola
A dozen or more cases of mumps have been reported among Loyola University Maryland students over the past month, prompting officials to alert the campus community to signs of the rare virus that has spread rapidly across college campuses in recent...
Tags: Disease Prevention, Symptoms, Teaching and Learning, MMR Vaccine, Diseases and Illnesses
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Firm at center of fungal meningitis outbreak files for bankruptcy
The pharmacy at the center of a fungal meningitis outbreak that has hit 19 states said Friday it has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Massachusetts. The New England Compounding Center also said it plans to establish a fund to compensate those affected...Tags: Bankruptcy, Back Pain
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After whirlwind year, Manny Machado feels at home in Orioles clubhouse
The Baltimore SunSARASOTA, Fla. — Around this time last year, Manny Machado spent his spring on a nomadic journey shuffling between the Orioles' minor league and major league camps. He wore No. 95. When he made appearances in the major league camp, he dressed in...Tags: Buck Showalter, American League, New York Yankees, Headaches, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Hand-Foot-Mouth menace
When Jonah Posner developed a fever last spring, his mother, Tracy, didn’t think much of it. The then-2-year-old was eating, drinking and sleeping as he usually did. “He had no other symptoms besides the fever,” Tracy Posner says....
Tags: Pain, Acetaminophen (drug), Diseases and Illnesses, Skin Rash, Health Organizations
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Loyola student diagnosed with bacterial meningitis
A Loyola University Maryland undergraduate student is at a local hospital recovering from bacterial meningitis, a school spokesman said Thursday. The student was taken to the emergency room of the unnamed hospital Wednesday after being examined at the...Tags: Symptoms, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at School
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In meningitis outbreak, fear lingers for patients with few answers
A national outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a tainted steroid killed two Marylanders. Nearly two dozen people living with the disease and hundreds of others who may have been exposed fear they may be next. Sheila Smelkinson began suffering in...
Tags: Stroke, Pikesville, Symptoms, Diseases and Illnesses, Dundalk
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No further precautions at school amid possible meningitis death
Anne Arundel County Public School officials said on Thursday the county Department of Health has not recommended additional cleaning steps to be taken amid the Tuesday death of a Glen Burnie High School junior, who had become ill the day before with...Tags: Symptoms, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Students, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Glen Burnie High junior dies from meningitis-like symptoms
A junior at Glen Burnie High School in Anne Arundel County died Tuesday after becoming ill the day before with symptoms associated with bacterial meningitis, school officials said Wednesday. A letter was sent home to students' parents Wednesday...Tags: General Practitioners, Symptoms, Teaching and Learning, Diseases and Illnesses, Students
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Fallston man died of fungal meningitis
John C. "Jack" Millhausen, an 84-year-old Fallston resident, is at least the second Marylander to die of fungal meningitis in a national epidemic that experts say is slowing but about which many questions remain.
Millhausen died Nov. 15 at Gilchrist...Tags: Pikesville, Symptoms, Steroids, Diseases and Illnesses, Food and Drug Administration
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Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair
Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...Tags: U.S. Senate, World War II (1939-1945), Benjamin L. Cardin, Intel Corp., Food and Drug Administration
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Owen Brown resident advocates a healthy dialogue on wellness
Bob Duggan frequently refers to "our national disease-care system" when he talks about his new book, employing a term he has used across his 40-plus years as a healing-arts clinician and educator. As co-founder and former president of Tai Sophia...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Multiple Sclerosis, Medical Procedures and Tests, Bankruptcy, Corporate Officers
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