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Vitamin D may be used to treat common fibroids
Surgery is generally the only treatment for uterine fibroids, the most common noncancerous tumors in women of childbearing age. Some 200,000 U.S. women have the procedure every year, at a cost $34 billion a year. But a new study funded by the National...Tags: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Lower Back Pain, Symptoms, Vitamin D, Medical Procedures and Tests
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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: Health Organizations, MedImmune Inc., Food and Drug Administration, Manufacturing and Engineering, Justice System
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Local biotech firm wins grant to develop vaccines for two viruses
Profectus BioSciences Inc., a Baltimore-based biotechnology company, said Wednesday that it won a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the development of a vaccine for a pair of contagious and deadly viruses that the U.S....Tags: Disease Prevention, Health and Safety at School, Drugs and Medicines, Viral Diseases and Infections, Companies and Corporations
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Grandparents take on role of a parent
Ella Johnson thought she was done raising kids. Then one night her daughter, asleep in bed with her 1-year-old son, died of a heart condition, and Johnson suddenly found herself mothering a grieving grandchild who clung to the picture of his dead mother....Tags: Placebo, Mother's Day, Bowie, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Heart Problems
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NIH employee guilty of theft
A 32-year-old Germantown woman pleaded guilty Friday to using a government credit card for personal use, buying 119 iPads, a mattress set and house cleaning services, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office. Tamia M. McCoy, a former...Tags: Credit and Debt, Theft
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Nutrition and type 2 diabetes prevention
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog Picture of Health (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth), which is reprinted here. This week, Amanda Tauber weighs in on type 2...Tags: Amputation, Overweight, Insulin, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Information needed to treat put beyond physicians' reach
In a small, rural, rust-belt town there sits a nondescript office building not far from the town square. The building is an unassuming amalgam of storefronts, offices and vacancies. Near one of the offices, there hangs a shingle: "Psychiatrist's Office."...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Reed Elsevier, Health and Medical Professionals, Research, Medical Research
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In 8th Congressional District, it's 'getting to know you'
Redistricting, early voting and the flood of interest from a presidential election year has made March a critical month for candidates vying for positions in Congress, perhaps none as hectic as the 8th Congressional District race. Carroll County has...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Kensington, Environmental Politics, Montgomery County (Maryland), Fort Meade (military base)
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Dismayed by Washington, Pooran runs for Congress
Milad Pooran was honeymooning in the South Pacific last summer as politicians in Washington were turning a deadline to raise the U.S. debt limit into another opportunity for partisan brinkmanship. A critical care physician from Frederick County, Pooran...
Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Iraq, Health and Medical Professionals, Government Health Care
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Salad bars sprouting up in city school cafeterias
Until this year, the only items that resembled produce on Blessin Giraldo's school lunch tray were berry-flavored Popsicles and Fruit Roll-Ups.
But now, the Baltimore eighth-grader's tray features beds of greens and fruits and vegetables that are...Tags: Health Organizations, Documentary (genre), Obesity, Satellite and Cable Service, Family
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Vaccine policy should not be one size fits all
Rathi Asaithambi's April 11 op-ed advocating a federally mandatory vaccination policy with no exemptions ("Time to get tough on vaccine refusal") is based on straw man arguments and ignorance of documented adverse effects of vaccines. There is no "anti...Tags: Disease Prevention, Annapolis, Drugs and Medicines, Family, Pharmaceuticals
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Philathia Yvonne Reese-Calhoun, outreach director
Philathia Yvonne Reese-Calhoun, former director of community outreach at Maryland New Directions, died Monday of cancer at Northwest Hospital. She was 63.
The daughter of a church sextant and a homemaker, Philathia Yvonne Reese was raised in Richmond,...Tags: Christianity, Petersburg (Petersburg, Virginia), Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Baptist
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