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Health officials alarmed over silicone injections for fuller buttocks
Some women who want rounder, fuller buttocks are turning to a dangerous cosmetic procedure: illegal injections of silicone offered by people who lack medical training and may buy their supplies in home improvement stores. The trend — which has...Tags: Entertainment Events, Dance, Breast Augmentation, Concerts, Rhinoplasty
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Woman pleads guilty in silicone buttocks injections case
A 45-year-old Atlanta woman admitted Wednesday that she used a downtown Baltimore hotel room to inject exotic dancers with commercial-grade silicone, commonly used in furniture polish, to enlarge their buttocks, according to federal prosecutors. As...Tags: Lungs and Airways, Punishment, Entertainment Events, Prosecution, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Hopkins engineer students create devices to help keep babies alive
Johns Hopkins University Engineering students unveiled devices Monday that they hope will lower the number of still births and deaths from fever-related illnesses in developing countries. FeverPoint is a screening test that uses a cotton thread and a...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Skin Lesion, Engineering, Cancer
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Rev. John Wesley Bowen, church historian
The Rev. John Wesley Bowen, a Roman Catholic priest and church historian who advocated sainthood for a 19th-century Baltimore woman, died of pneumonia Sunday at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 87 and lived in Catonsville.
Born in Baltimore and raised on...Tags: Ellicott City, Religious Education, Roman Catholicism, Catonsville, John Wesley
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Pneumonia is biggest killer of young kids, study shows
Around the globe, the leading cause of death for children under age 5 is pneumonia, according to a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
About 18 percent of the deaths are from the infection. That’s 1.4 million kids...Tags: Diarrhea, Family, Measles, Tetanus, Malaria
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Is this the year a Maryland-trained horse wins the Preakness again?
Deputed Testamony is 32-years-old. His dark brown coat is shaggy, and his biggest excitement is going into his paddock at Bonita Farm for three or four hours of grazing each day. He is a pensioner, an icon. The oldest living winner of a Triple Crown...
Tags: Horse and Harness Racing, Equestrian, Under Armour Inc., Triple Crown, Barbaro
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50 Years Ago: Fire destroys Sharon Acres residence
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, May 24, 1962: A mysterious fire destroyed the Sharon Acres residence of Miss K. Ady this week 50 years ago. The brick frame 170-year-old house was totally engulfed in flames by the time firefighters...Tags: Theft, Consumer Goods Industries, Agricultural Research and Technology, Beverage Industry, Harford County
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Robert M. Coulbourn III, industrial designer
Robert M. Coulbourn III, a retired industrial designer who had been active in the affairs of several Baltimore-area Episcopal churches, died May 23 of pneumonia at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 87.
The son of a salesman and a...Tags: Sociology, Charles Street, Roland Park, World War II (1939-1945), Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland)
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Frances D. Tompkins, hospital official
Frances D. Tompkins, a registered nurse who had been vice president and director of nursing at Union Memorial Hospital, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at the Oak Crest Village retirement community.
The longtime Stoneleigh resident was 92....Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics, Union Memorial Hospital, Nursing
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Medstar Health opens first satellite clinic as alternative to hospital emergency room
The health care provider MedStar Health, which owns Union Memorial, Good Samaritan and Franklin Square hospitals, has opened its first urgent care satellite facility, called PromptCare, on the city-county line, and says it plans to open more in the...Tags: Good Samaritan Hospital (Baltimore), MedStar Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Union Memorial Hospital, Flu
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Thomson Reuters list of top 100 hospitals
Thomson Reuters has released its top 100 U.S. hospitals based on overall performance. The hospitals were ranked on 10 key areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average patient stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction,...Tags: Margate, Batavia, Cleveland Clinic, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Sycamore
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Trayvon Martin case strikes deep chord with Baltimoreans
When 17-year-old John Edwards was shot in the head on Edmondson Avenue this month, no one marched on City Hall.
There were no comparisons to Emmett Till, no columns in national newspapers about the anxieties of growing up black and male in a country...Tags: Barack Obama, Kenneth N. Oliver, Anxiety, Shomrim, Safety of Citizens
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