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HPV-related throat cancers multiplying
It is well known that HPV (human papillomavirus) can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well. Throat cancers caused by HPV are showing up typically in men with little or no history of smoking, said Dr. Kevin...
Tags: Medical Research, Oncology, Cancer, Symptoms, Biotechnology
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Checkmate Cancer in HdG on Saturday
Harford County residents are being asked to support two worthy fundraisers to benefit two families of sick children. The fundraisers are to benefit the family of a 9-year-old boy, who's been battling cancer, and the other to benefit the family whose 4...
Tags: Clubs and Associations, Oncology, Harford County, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Swelling
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Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation
"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...
Tags: The New York Times, Heart Disease, Ovarian Cancer, Cancer, Symptoms
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Mick Kipp, Pickles bartender and spice-maker, dies
The mood Tuesday inside Pickles Pub, across from Camden Yards, matched the gray rainy weather. As noontime regulars ate their lunch and quietly caressed glasses of beer amid the low-key chatter and music playing in the background, something clearly...
Tags: Annapolis, Leukemia, Vincent de Paul, Cancer, Roman Catholicism
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Charlie Zill, former Orioles usher, dies of lung cancer at 56
The Baltimore SunCharlie Zill, the popular long-time usher at Camden Yards who entertained Orioles fans with his “Zillbilly” dance during the seventh-inning stretch, died late Saturday night of lung cancer. He was 56. Zill, who had been diagnosed with cancer...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Children's Memorial Hospital, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Morphine (drug)
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Congress flies blind
What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...
Tags: Elections, Federal Aviation Administration, Unemployment Benefits, Head Start, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Sinai to research new drug to prevent blood clots, heart attacks in stent patients
A Sinai Hospital cardiologist is launching a clinical trial of a type of coronary artery disease drug not yet tested in humans, building on a history at the Baltimore hospital of research to develop more effective treatments to prevent blood clotting....
Tags: Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Plavix (drug), Pharmaceuticals, Health Organizations
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Columbia lung cancer survivor finds voice with 5K fundraiser
When Columbia resident Michael Osborne was diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer in April of 2008, one prevailing thought kept running through his mind. "I was devastated because, to me, lung cancer meant you were dead," Osborne said. "That's what I knew...
Tags: Oncology, Breast Cancer, Medical Specialization, Diseases and Illnesses, Prostate Cancer
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One pitch for Orioles fan, usher Charlie Zill
Charlie Zill got his wish — and then some. The long-time usher at Camden Yards, who has stage 4 lung cancer, watched his beloved Orioles play one more time Wednesday night. Wearing an Orioles cap and jersey over his trademark "Zillbilly"...
Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Health Treatments, Baseball, Lung Cancer
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Towson High girls lacrosse team fundraises for schoolmate battling cancer
Sky Campbell won't be able to attend a fundraiser organized to help her family defray some of the out-of-pocket expenses for her cancer treatment on Saturday, April 13. Instead, the 14-year-old West Towson resident will be undergoing chemotherapy...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lacrosse, Lymphoma, Diseases and Illnesses, Biotechnology
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Dr. Kenneth B. Kochmann, family physician
Dr. Kenneth B. Kochmann, a former social worker who became a physician later in life, died March 8 of multiple myeloma at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 63.
The son of German immigrant parents — his father was a traveling salesman and his mother a...Tags: State University of New York, Back to School, Timonium, Health and Medical Professionals, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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O's usher famous for 'Zillbilly' dance has stage 4 lung cancer
Charlie Zill leans forward and adjusts the lines to his oxygen supply before slipping a CD into his laptop. "This is a good one," he says softly. Up pops a video of Zill, the long-time fixture at Orioles games, doing his "Zillbilly" dance in full...
Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, John Denver, Health Treatments
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