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Obama's Plan B decision puts girls at risk
A society is at its worst when it leaves its most vulnerable citizens exposed so that its most powerful can hide from ugly realities. In the case of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' ruling to reject the Food and Drug Administration's...Tags: Health Organizations, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kathleen Sebelius, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Food and Drug Administration
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Monkton nurse returns from Zambia
While her family feasted on turkey, Monkton resident Karen Starr spent Thanksgiving day stranded in an airport at Ndola, Zambia. After 11 days of African food and water, she was very sick and she was dead tired.
Even so, Starr, who is now back home,...Tags: Health Organizations, Students, Family, Teaching and Learning, Hospitals and Clinics
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Anxious Marylanders wait to see if Congress will act
Failure of the congressional "supercommittee" to strike a deal on deficit reduction has left lawmakers scrambling to address a half-dozen bills of major importance to Marylanders, from extending tax breaks to paying Medicare doctors to securing federal...Tags: Health Organizations, Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate, Government Health Care, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger
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Men Making a Difference: Mark Gregory
Mark Gregory remembers.
He remembers dates. There was the day after Thanksgiving in 1989, when doctors found a tumor near his brain. Then there was July 26, 1991, when Gregory, who’d been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, underwent a bone marrow...Tags: Cancer, Health Organizations, Charity, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics
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Bahrain's brave health care workers deserve support
The United States continues to ignore the thwarted Arab Spring in Bahrain. Recently, a quasi-military court in the small Gulf state sentenced 20 doctors and nurses to up to 15 years in jail. The charge against them? Treating injured demonstrators opposing...Tags: American Medical Association, Health and Medical Professionals, Police Arrests, General Practitioners, Radio
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A pregnant woman with HIV, and the cost of U.S. foreign aid cuts
When I met a woman I'll call "Mary" in Luwingu, a remote district in northern Zambia, she had already seen three of her children die. She did not know that she had contracted HIV until she arrived at the clinic where for the past few months I had been...Tags: Barbara A. Mikulski, Conservation, Hospitals and Clinics, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Viral Diseases and Infections
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More suffer from hearing loss than expected, study shows
One in five Americans has significant hearing loss, far more than previously thought, according to new research that has scientists warning of an impending public health threat.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University say the growing number of...Tags: Diabetes, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Annapolis, Health and Medical Professionals, Hearing Impairment
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Swaying the supercommittee
At 84, Barbara Talbert might seem an unlikely Washington lobbyist. But when she heard senior citizen programs could be cut to reduce federal budget deficits, she quickly got on a bus to Capitol Hill.
"As far as Social Security is concerned, some people...Tags: Lobbying, Government Health Care, Executive Branch, Government, Medicare
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With Alma Lauriente's passing, county loses dedicated volunteer, 'dynamic, vivacious' woman
A Clarksville resident who pioneered integration efforts in Howard County and established local chapters of the American Red Cross and American Cancer Society is being remembered as a woman with a good sense of humor and endless enthusiasm.
Alma...Tags: Howard County, Charity, Clarksville, Relief and Aid Organizations, American Legion
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Linden-Linthicum ready for a joyful noise Nov. 6 to help American Cancer Society
Linden-Linthicum United Methodist Church choir will be singing at a benefit concert Sunday, No. 6 at 4:30 p.m. Come to Glenelg United Methodist Church, 13900 Burntwoods Road, in Glenelg. The event is to benefit the American Cancer Society. Other...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Space Programs, Music, Christianity, Linthicum
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A safe Thanksgiving for pets
Thanksgiving is a time for family and for sharing, but use caution when it comes to your family pet.
The American Veterinary Medical Association offers the following tips:
1. Table scraps are never a good idea. Pets’ digestive systems can’t...Tags: Holidays
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Dr. Donald W. Zantop
Dr. Donald W. Zantop, co-owner of the Fallston Veterinary Clinic who was noted for his avian rescue work, died Oct. 13 in a diving accident off Bald Head Island, N.C.
The Fallston resident, who was 59, had been collecting underwater fossils with...Tags: Martinsville (Martinsville, Virginia), Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Animal Science, Agricultural Research and Technology
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