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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, Boston, Johns Hopkins University
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Dr. Fray F. Marshall
Dr. Fray Francis Marshall, a urologist and former Johns Hopkins professor who developed surgical technique for the treatment of kidney cancer, died of cancer Dec. 2 at the Atlanta Hospice. He was 67 and had lived in Ruxton before moving to Georgia in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, University of Michigan, Genetic Engineering, Disease Prevention, Teaching and Learning
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Francis N. Craig
Francis N. Craig, a retired Edgewood Arsenal scientist, died of respiratory failure Thursday at the Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville. He was 100 and had previously lived in the Loreley section of Baltimore County near White Marsh.
His...Tags: Science, Hospitals and Clinics, Anglicanism, New York University, Hospitals and Clinics
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Do doctors lie to patients?
Do you think your doctor is open and honest with you? Maybe not always, according to a new survey. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston surveyed 1,891 physicians...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, General Practitioners, Malpractice
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Mary Joan Hagigh, social worker, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterMary Joan Hagigh, a retired social worker and registered nurse, died June 24 from complications of a fractured hip at Emeritus Towson Assisted-Living. The Ruxton resident was 78. Mary Joan Wall, whose father was head of collections for the Internal...Tags: Social Services, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Services, Medical Specialization
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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: Hemorrhaging, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Armed Conflicts, Europe, Surgery
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DUBIOUS BREAKTHROUGH
Sun reporterWhen the drug known as Recombinant Activated Factor VII arrived on the American market in 1999, it seemed destined for obscurity. Made by the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and sold under the name NovoSeven, it was approved only for...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, University of Maryland Medical Center, Hemorrhaging, Surgery, Companies and Corporations
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Sleepy surgical residents impaired, study says
Surgical residents were more fatigued than expected, especially on night rotations, according to a new study. A quarter of their waking time, they were the equivalent of being legally drunk, the study said. “Our fatigue levels were higher than we...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Fatigue
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RPT-Olympics-Rowing a family affair for American hopeful Gevvie Stone
Reuters(Repeats story filed earlier, no changes to text) By Ros Krasny BOSTON, May 17 (Reuters) - When U.S. rowing hopeful Genevra "Gevvie" Stone dips her oars into the waters of Lucerne, Switzerland, this weekend she will try to fulfill an Olympic dream...Tags: College Sports, Hospitals and Clinics, Rowing, Princeton University, Eight Rowing
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Rod through Phineas Gage's brain caused more damage than thought
This post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom.The tamping rod that blew through Phineas Gage's brain 163 years ago damaged only a small portion of his brain, but it disrupted a much larger proportion of his neural connections, UCLA researchers reported Wednesday. The finding, based on imaging of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Harvard Medical School, National Institutes of Health, Medical Research, University of California, Los Angeles
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Two paralyzed people successfully use robot arm
After years of work with primates and able-bodied humans, researchers have successfully demonstrated in paralyzed humans that an implanted electrode in the brain can successfully control the movement of a robot arm, allowing the patients to drink and...
Tags: Brain, Hospitals and Clinics, Stroke, Harvard Medical School, Medical Research
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Rowing a family affair for American Olympic hopeful Gevvie Stone
ReutersBOSTON (Reuters) - When U.S. rowing hopeful Genevra "Gevvie" Stone dips her oars into the waters of Lucerne, Switzerland, this weekend she will try to fulfil an Olympic dream that was left in tatters four years ago as well as continue a family tradition....Tags: College Sports, Hospitals and Clinics, Rowing, Princeton University, Eight Rowing
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