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John F. Guidera, Jesuit missionary
The Rev. John F. Guidera, a Jesuit missionary who lived in India for six decades while retaining close ties with his Maryland benefactors, died of septicemia May 16 in Jamshedpur. He was 86.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Govans, he was a 1943 Loyola...Tags: Charity, India, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Loyola University Maryland
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Bacteria that caused flesh-eating infection more common than believed
The story of a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting a flesh-eating disease has prompted a microbiologist with the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System to speak out about the infection.
Aimee Copeland lost most of her left leg after the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Necrotizing Fasciitis, Amoxicillin (drug), Staphylococcal Infection , Ciprofloxacin (drug)
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R.I.P. Chuck Brown and Donna Summer, two legends
It's been a tough month for music fans, and the bad news hasn't slowed down.
On Wednesday, we lost the Godfather of Go-Go and D.C. legend Chuck Brown to complications from sepsis. He was 75. Naturally, his loss was felt particularly hard in the Baltimore...Tags: Music, The Washington Post, Cancer, Obituaries, Donna Summer
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15 years after split, a chance for Peter Angelos, Davey Johnson to patch things up
Davey Johnson hadn't owned a home in more than a decade. But soon after being hired by the Orioles in 1995, he defied baseball managers' conventional logic by buying — rather than renting — a ranch house on the north side of Loch Raven...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr., Nationals Park, Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Dodgers
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Medical billing a target of fraud investigations
In Maryland, an orthopedic practice agreed to pay $2.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations that it had billed for patients' visits that never took place and had double-charged for X-ray work to get higher reimbursements. In...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Labor Legislation, Hospitals and Clinics, Laws, Medicare
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Hopkins, Lockheed aim to modernize the ICU
Johns Hopkins intensive care nurse Nelly E. Lopez spends so much of her workday monitoring patient distress alarms that she sometimes hears phantom beeps even when she is no longer on the job.
Hopkins doctors say Lopez's "alarm fatigue" shows what is...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Technology, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Human Body
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Baltimore is best city for hospital care
Baltimore area hospitals provide the best patient care in the country, according to a new survey. Nearly half of the area's hospitals - nine out of 16 - are in the top 5 percent of all of the hospitals in the United States, according to the survey by...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Franklin Square Hospital Center, Pneumonia, Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics
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Kenneth Allen Maylath, broadcaster
Kenneth Allen Maylath, a veteran Baltimore broadcaster who had been host of "Conference Call" on WFBR-AM and was later news director at WCBM-AM, died Saturday of sepsis at Franklin Square Hospital Center.
The longtime Parkville resident was 75.
Born and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Arthur Godfrey, Harford Road, Franklin Square Hospital Center
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Life-threatening sepsis appears to be on rise
Every year, some 750,000 Americans develop sepsis, an extreme immune system response to infection. It kills a quarter to half of them, more than the combined number of people who die of prostate and breast cancer and AIDS, according to the National...Tags: Urinary System, Hospitals and Clinics, Kidney, Medical Services, Pancreas
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Pope's condition worsens
The Associated PressVATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II was near death as dawn approached Saturday, his breathing shallow and his heart and kidneys failing, the Vatican said. Millions of faithful around the world paid homage, many weeping as they knelt with bowed heads,...Tags: Urinary System, Plastic Surgeons, Hospitals and Clinics, John Paul II, Medical Services
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Septic shock strikes quickly
Sun StaffPope John Paul II's downward spiral yesterday was a classic example of what happens to a frail, elderly patient suffering from septic shock - a condition that remains maddeningly hard to cure, doctors said. "Sepsis is the beginning of a domino effect,"...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Hospitals and Clinics, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Renal Failure, The Pope
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New hope for halting a killer illness
She thought it was just a cold. Her throat was sore, and she felt tired all over. But as JoAnn Barr got her son ready for school that morning in March, she started gasping for breath. Within a few hours, Barr was on a ventilator in intensive care, her...Tags: Urinary System, Hospitals and Clinics, Fever, Medical Services, Henry Ford
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