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STI havens within galloping distance of Preakness
The Baltimore SunIf indecent exposure laws aren't enough to give adventurous Pimlico infield visitors pause, here's another disincentive: The famous race course lies inside of one of Baltimore's statistical hot spots for gonorrhea. Just in time for the end of national...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Gonorrhea , Diseases and Illnesses, Equestrian, Bolton Hill
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Marylander who died of rabies contracted disease from kidney transplant
The first Marylander to succumb to rabies since 1976 developed the virus through a kidney transplant that took place more than a year before the Army veteran died of the disease in February, national health and defense officials said Friday. Tests...
Tags: Defense, Symptoms, Vaccines, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics
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Md. author explores fascinating, fatal arsenic
For such a long time, arsenic was the perfect poison. It is odorless, colorless and tasteless, so it's difficult to detect when slipped into a food or beverage. Its effects are gradual and cumulative — deflecting suspicion from the killer. The...
Tags: Reisterstown Road, Abusive Behavior, Symptoms, Diseases and Illnesses, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Raise your glass, the Weeping Cherry at Bad Decisions
Thank you, Al Capone. Fortunately for me, one of your worst decisions has resulted in one of the best ones I've made in recent months: ordering the Weeping Cherry from -- wait for it, wait for it … -- Bad Decisions in Fells Point. Turns out...
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Dance, Cherry Pie, Entertainment Events, Organized Crime
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Government's top priority: Get out of the way
In his recent commentary, Robert Embry uses Baltimore City public health initiatives to make the point that there are some things only government could accomplish ("Government does good; here's proof," Oct. 24). I disagree. Except for the lead paint...Tags: Measles, AIDS, Mumps
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Think government doesn't do good? Read this
During this election cycle, it is increasingly popular in some circles to condemn government as wasteful, inefficient and incompetent. While there are thousands of federal, state and local government programs, each with its own index of success or...
Tags: Measles, Renovation, Heroin, Diseases and Illnesses, Arts
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'Bachelor Pad' Recap, episode 6, Couples voting
Now we're getting somewhere. Last week, Michael ("Puppy") and Erica ("Plastic Princess") were voted off, Blakeley ("Cougar") declared war on Chris ("Lt. Dan") and Ed ("Adam Corolla") revealed his lack-of-desire for Jaclyn ("The Muppet") in front of the...
Tags: Voting, Chris Harrison, Elections
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For Union Memorial, Al Capone's tree keeps on giving
Who says Al Capone was a bad guy? Well, lots of people do. But he did at least one nice thing in his life. He donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to Union Memorial Hospital in 1939. Now, the hospital is selling carvings from a broken limb of one of...
Tags: eBay Inc., Hospitals and Clinics, Auction Service, Al Capone, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis, HIV, AIDS?
Highlands Today, Sebring, Fla.Highlands County reported 31 HIV cases from 2009-11. That's 10.5 per 100,000. If there's good news in that report, it's that the Florida rate is 27.7. "Those are newly reported cases," said Barbara Moore, an RN with Highlands County Health Department....Tags: Palm Beach County, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Gonorrhea , Symptoms, Diseases and Illnesses
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Toulouse-Lautrec works on display this summer in Allentown
To Paul Firos, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was more than just the most significant of the French Post-Impressionist artists. Through his posters that were splashed across Parisian buildings in the late 1800s heralding upcoming events, he was the first...
Tags: Allentown, Museums, Allentown Art Museum, Artists, New Britain
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10 things you might not know about poison
This month has been one big hazmat spill. An Elvis impersonator from Mississippi was arrested and later released after letters containing the deadly poison ricin were mailed to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a judge. On the other side of the...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Minnesota Vikings, Charles Darwin, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Seahawks
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Arkansas Senate aims to cut off state funds to abortion providers
ReutersLITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - The Republican-led Arkansas Senate, in the latest statehouse swipe at abortion providers around the country, approved a bill on Tuesday that sponsors said was aimed at cutting off the last vestiges of state funding to...Tags: HIV, Planned Parenthood, American Civil Liberties Union, Abortion, Republican Party
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