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Maryland braces for more meningitis cases
Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid. In the cases...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Steroids, Diseases and Illnesses, Harford County, Hospitals and Clinics
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MedImmune creating drug pipeline for AstraZeneca
When Gail Folena-Wasserman joined Gaithersburg biotechnology startup MedImmune in 1991, she was its first employee in research and development, and dreamed of what the company might be "when it grew up."
Two decades later, the senior vice president for...Tags: MedImmune Inc., Prices, Vaccines, Flu Vaccine, Food and Drug Administration
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HIV drug causes memory loss
A drug commonly used by patients with HIV may be damaging nerve cells and causing memory loss, Johns Hopkins researchers have found. Doctors have long thought the brain damage and memory loss longterm survivors of HIV suffer was caused by the disease....Tags: Brain, Memory Loss, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Medical Research
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Maryland keeps eye on West Nile Virus
Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties are getting sprayed for mosquitoes and health officials are warning residents to take precautions as the nation copes with the worst season of West Nile Virus since the disease was discovered in the...Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Symptoms, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Procedures and Tests
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County reaches agreement with Verizon on sales practices
The Howard County Office of Consumer Affairs has reached an agreement with Verizon following a 15-month investigation of the company's sales practices in selling bundled services, which was prompted by complaints from county residents. Verizon will...Tags: Consumers, Email, Verizon Communications, Ken Ulman
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Different season, same story with Ravens' confusing play-calling
— Here they go again. The greatest fear about this new, no-huddle offense returned in the Ravens 24-23 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday . I thought the Ravens were past this stage about questionable play...
Tags: Cam Cameron, Baltimore Ravens, Dennis Pitta, Jim Caldwell, Lincoln Financial Field
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No, the FDIC doesn't want to talk to you
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which insures bank deposits, warns that there are two fake emails claiming to be from the agency. One includes statements about the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, and the Investor Protection Law of the Securities Act...Tags: Washington, DC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Mosquito sprayings in Catonsville, Pikesville seek to reduce West Nile risk
Baltimore County is conducting mosquito sprayings this week in Catonsville and next week in Pikesville in the wake of two human cases of West Nile Virus being discovered in the county. Weather permitting, sprayings are scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 19,...Tags: Environmental Politics, Diseases and Illnesses, Catonsville, West Nile Virus, Baltimore County
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Baltimore County sprays for mosquitoes
Pikesville and Catonsville are the next area locations to be sprayed for mosquitoes in response to cases of West Nile Virus, Baltimore County Department of Health officials said Friday. The Maryland Department of Agriculture will spray parts of...Tags: Baltimore County, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Flu, Catonsville
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Second Marylander dies from West Nile
A second person in Maryland has died from West Nile virus in what is one of the country's worst seasons for the disease. State health officials are not releasing details about the deceased for privacy reasons. The number of the state's West Nile cases...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Diseases and Illnesses, West Nile Virus
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Edgemere man faces rarely used HIV transmission charges
When police accused an Edgemere man of having sex with a 13-year-old boy, most of the charges were straightforward: soliciting a minor and a related sexual offense, which together could carry up to 30 years in prison. But Baltimore County prosecutors...
Tags: Maryland General Assembly, AIDS, Justice System, Prisons, American Civil Liberties Union
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Baby boomers unknowingly infected with hepatitis C
When Alan Shackelford's ankles would swell up, he brushed it off as another sign of getting older — only to find out it was a symptom of something much worse.
The 59-year-old Windsor Mill man was shocked when his doctor recently diagnosed him...Tags: AIDS, Cirrhosis, Liver Cancer, Blood Transfusion, Drug Use
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