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Dr. Lorenz E. and Anastasia U. Zimmerman
Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman, the founder of modern ophthalmic pathology, who spent his nearly 60-year career studying diseases of the eye, died March 16 of complications from an infection at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92.
His wife...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes, Health and Medical Professionals, Georgetown University, Heart Failure
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Dr. Don-Neil Brotman, dentist
Dr. Don-Neil Brotman, a retired Baltimore dentist and a pilot, died Feb. 16 of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Pikesville resident was 80.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Dr. Brotman was a 1949 graduate of City College, and after attending...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Bars and Clubs, Pikesville, Federal Aviation Administration, Dining and Drinking
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Mikulski, VA secretary pledge added staff, training in Baltimore
The Baltimore office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation's worst performer in processing disability claims, will receive more employee training, an influx of senior staff and a new digital processing system ahead of schedule, under a...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, American Legion, U.S. Department of Defense, World War II (1939-1945), Conservation
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Soldier who lost all limbs in Iraq gets double arm transplant
A soldier who lost all of his limbs in the Iraq War received double arm transplants at Johns Hopkins Hospital last month in a rare procedure that has already begun to restore some normalcy to his life.
Hopkins doctors are to speak in detail about the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Army, Bombings, Iraq War (2003-2011), Amputation
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Dr. Kraig Scot Bower joins Wilmer Eye in Bel Air
Kraig Scot Bower, M.D., F.A.C.S, the director of refractive surgery at The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Center). Bower is...
Tags: Cataracts, Johns Hopkins University, Eyes and Vision
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Helping veterans to recover with hunting
There was a time before the three heart attacks, before he was effectively paralyzed in the lower half of his left leg, when Army Spc. Stephen Ramsey wouldn't do much on his Georgia farm other than pick cotton and peanuts, and hunt. Actually, he can...
Tags: Hunting, Brooklyn Park, Ray Charles, Physical Disabilities, Condos and Houses
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Consumers can donate hotel reward points to families of wounded veterans
Consumers can donate hotel reward points to wounded warriors and their families starting today. The "Hotels for Heroes" program, created by bipartisan federal legislation passed in December, is designed to defray travel costs of wounded veterans being...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Democratic Party, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hotels and Accommodations
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Montgomery Co. kayaker hopes third Olympics will be the charm
Scott Parsons keeps going.
Long after the older brother he idolized growing up in Ohio quit his own competitive kayak racing career, long after the best friend he met through their kayaking families did the same, Parsons is like Peter Pan in a wet suit,...Tags: Dara Torres, Canoeing and Kayaking, Awards and Prizes, FIFA World Cup, Olympic Games
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Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., head of nuclear medicine at Mercy
Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., an internist and former head of the division of nuclear medicine at Mercy Medical Center who also was a practicing magician, died July 20 of heart disease at Union Memorial Hospital.
The longtime Guilford resident was 80.
"He...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Music Industry, General Practitioners, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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Marine gets rare spinal surgery to stop pain in his arm
A foot and half separated Marc Burleson from the buried bomb he was trying to defuse last December in a narrow alleyway of a small Afghanistan village.
The bomb exploded, mutilating the Marine's face, ripping off part of his right arm, paralyzing his...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Afghanistan, Seizures, Iraq War (2003-2011), Explosions
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Federal security contractor to lay off 93 in Maryland
A Florida-based federal security contractor warned that it would lay off nearly 100 people at two government facilities in Maryland by the end of September as a result of Army contracts that are not being renewed. G4S Government Solutions Inc., which...Tags: Unemployment, Labor Legislation, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Home nearly complete for soldier wounded in Afghanistan
Going from a concrete slab Friday morning to a nearly finished home exterior Saturday afternoon, the home off of Old Level Road in Havre de Grace for Army Medic SSG Kelly Keck and his family was truly a sight to behold The Build Brigade - non-profit...
Tags: Havre de Grace, Building Material, Armed Forces, Injuries and Wounds, Shingles
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