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Maryland should embrace gay adoption
It's gratifying that same-sex couples in Maryland who are seeking to adopt have found a welcome reception in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Because of a city precedent and a uniform attitude among judges here that sexual orientation should not be a...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Justice System, Adoption, Judges, Family
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DANGEROUS REMEDY
Sun reporterAmerican military doctors in Iraq have injected more than 1,000 of the war's wounded troops with a potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug despite mounting medical evidence linking it to deadly blood clots that lodge in the lungs, heart and...Tags: U.S. Military, Washington, DC, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Colleges and Universities, Mount Sinai
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Factor VII timeline
• March 1999 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Recombinant Activated Factor VII for treating bleeding in patients with rare forms of hemophilia. • May 1999 -- U.S. Army Col. John B. Holcomb and Israeli Dr. Uri Martinowitz...Tags: Death, Defense, Columbia University, Colleges and Universities, Hemorrhaging
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Common flu strain resists popular drug Tamiflu
The flu strain most likely to make you sick this winter has developed a near-total resistance to one of the most popular drugs prescribed to blunt its symptoms. More than 98 percent of one of the influenza A viruses circulating this winter is now...Tags: Symptoms, Johns Hopkins University, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Death, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Fighting to be the ring leader
Sun ReporterWhen Chuck Liddell first fought in an Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon, he was a 28-year-old bartender with backgrounds in amateur wrestling and karate and a fervent hunger to scrape out a living doing what he loved - fighting. Eight years later,...Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, Wrestling, Television, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Arts
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Standing up to industry
Sun StaffLast of three articles BOSTON - Three years into one of history's largest trials of a new AIDS treatment, Steve Lagakos realized that it wasn't working and ordered a halt. Lagakos' verdict disappointed tens of thousands who suffer from the deadly...Tags: Columbia University, Biology, Colleges and Universities, Health Treatments, Health and Safety at School
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The famous dead yield only murky diagnoses
Sun StaffThe claims are everywhere: on posters and T-shirts, on the Internet and in books, even sometimes headlining the national news. Thomas Jefferson's eccentricities were actually a form of autism. Albert Einstein's genius flourished despite a learning...Tags: Hans Christian Andersen, Television, History, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics
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Tighter limits urged on children's ads
The Wall Street JournalHealth and children's advocates are turning up the volume on calls for tighter restrictions on television ads aimed at kids. Stoking their efforts are growing concerns over obesity and research indicating that young viewers are especially susceptible...Tags: Television, Kellogg Company, Advertising, Colleges and Universities, National Government
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Md. bill targets gifts to doctors
Sun StaffMaryland lawmakers are considering clamping down on the fancy meals, theater tickets and expensive trips lavished on doctors by pharmaceutical companies trying to persuade health care professionals to prescribe their medications. "The system bothers me,"...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Clubs and Associations, Hospitals and Clinics, Marketing, Merck & Company Incorporated
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Health sites too complex, full of cliches: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to act as a patient advocate. She played the role of a "salty tongue," a Cambodian expression that paints...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Internal Medicine, Aneurysm
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Fluoridated water? Not all Portlanders will drink to that
PORTLAND, Ore. — Proponents of fluoridating Portland's water supply had no trouble getting the local Urban League on board. Here in the biggest city in the country that still doesn't treat its water to prevent tooth decay, studies show that low-...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Dietary Supplements, Family, Civil Rights
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Guantanamo hunger strike tally hits 102
Miami HeraldU.S. military medical providers counted 102 Guantanamo prisoners as hunger strikers on Thursday, the first increase after three weeks when the number seemed to plateau at 100. Navy medical workers were tube feeding 30 of the hunger strikers, said Army...Tags: U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, American Red Cross, Strikes, Justice System
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