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Dr. Mark E. Molliver, Hopkins neuroscientist
Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor emeritus of neuroscience and neurology, died of complications after cardiac arrest May 10 at Hopkins Hospital. The Canton resident was 75.
Colleagues said his discoveries had...Tags: Science, Natural Resources, Hospitals and Clinics, Teachers, Boston
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Maryland ban on arsenic in chicken feed to spread?
Maryland is set to become the first state in the nation to outlaw chicken feed additives containing arsenic - but it won't be the last, if environmental activists have their way. Gov.Martin O'Malleyis scheduled to sign into law today legislation that...
Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Food Industry, Livestock Farming, Prince George's County
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Implantable pain disk may help those with cancer
An estimated 3.5 million cancer patients around the globe are in severe pain from their disease, but many get no relief.
In poor countries the cost is considered too high for drugs like morphine when such opioids are often stolen, abused or not taken...Tags: Methadone (drug), Hospitals and Clinics, Vaccines, Behavioral Conditions, Health and Safety at Work
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Columbia firm is world's first to market with stem cell drug
A Columbia-based biotechnology company said this week it received the world’s first government approval to market a stem cell drug, in Canada. Osiris Therapeutics, founded in 1992, spent 17 years developing a stem cell therapy that offers anti-...
Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Technology, Steroids, Biotechnology, Biotechnology Industry
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Md. to get $1.8 million in Abbott settlement over drug marketing
Maryland is slated to receive $1.8 million for its part in a national settlement with Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories over allegations of illegal drug marketing, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said Monday. Abbott will pay $100 million to 44...Tags: Douglas F. Gansler, Behavioral Conditions, Abbott Laboratories, Marketing, Depakote (drug)
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Rare disorder nearly takes Baltimore woman's sight
When Tamika Morgan developed red irritated eyes in the fall of 2010, she wasted no time heading to an optometrist at a local retail store who gave her drops for pink eye.
Her eyes got worse over the next few days so she went to a local hospital to see an...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Steroids, Arthritis, Ophthalmology, Diabetes
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FDA approves new drug for erectile dysfunction
Men now have a new option to treat erectile dysfunction. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the new drug Stendra to treat the illness that causes problems in the sex lives of 30 million men. It is the first erectile dysfunction drug in a...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Lilly Eli & Co, Cialis (drug), Chemicals, Viagra (drug)
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State biotech firms hope Congress will act
A proposal to speed the approval of new prescription drugs has patient advocates and biotech firms — including many based in Maryland — hoping that Congress will deliver a rare dose of bipartisanship this year.
Lawmakers are proposing a 6...Tags: Science, AstraZeneca Plc, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland), Manufacturing and Engineering, Companies and Corporations
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Human Genome Sciences rebuffs $2.6 billion offer from GlaxoSmithKline
Shares of Human Genome Sciences doubled in Thursday morning trading on news that a major British biopharmaceutical company offered to buy it for $2.6 billion, which the Rockville company rejected as too low. Human Genome, which uses the human DNA...Tags: Science, Anthrax, Human Genome Sciences Inc., Heart Disease, Diabetes
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Overwhelming evidence supports medical use of marijuana
I've read a pair of forceful screeds against medical marijuana in The Sun's editorial section lately ("Medical marijuana laws make a farce of medicine," March 7; "Who says marijuana is safe and effective?" March 13). Both make the rather uncontroversial...Tags: Baltimore County, Christine Gregoire, Cancer, Health Treatments, Medical Marijuana Therapy
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Drug company deals eyed in probe of shortage
Congressional lawmakers investigating the shortage of lifesaving drugs used to treat cancer and other illnesses are looking into three companies in North Carolina and Maryland that they believe set up "fake pharmacies" to access the drugs that they then...Tags: Long Term Care, Hospitals and Clinics, Elijah E. Cummings, Marketing, Durham (Durham, North Carolina)
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