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Understanding the new prostate cancer screening recommendations
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent advisory panel, recently recommended that healthy men not be given PSA blood tests to detect prostate cancer. But that won't mean the end of diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the most common...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Radiation Therapy, Prostate, Diseases and Illnesses
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Progress in Hepatitis C research
Hepatitis C has long been a problem with a low rate of cure. But new drug therapies are in use and others are on the horizon, according to Dr. Paul J. Thuluvath, chief of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center and the medical director of the Institute...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Diseases and Illnesses, Pharmaceuticals, Blood Transfusion
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Doctors may be transfusing blood too often
Patients may be getting blood transfusion too often during surgery, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The study shows wide variation in the use of transfusions, and those who receive blood fare no better, and sometimes do worse. The...
Tags: Emergency Health Procedures, Anesthesiology, Human Body, Medical Specialization, Blood Transfusion
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Hopkins surgeon performs 2,000th Whipple
Early Friday in a small, brightly lit operating room in Johns Hopkins Hospital, a half-dozen doctors and nurses huddled over the gut of a cancer patient, quietly passing metal instruments and surgical sutures.
After more than four hours of cutting and...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins University, Diseases and Illnesses, Gallbladder
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Letter: GOP Women have successful outreach
Editor: The Richlin Ballroom was packed recently as the Harford County Republican Women held its annual outreach and fundraising event. Candidates for local and state offices joined elected officials, including Congressman Andy Harris, Senator Nancy...Tags: Republican Party, Harford County, American Red Cross, Elections, Cancer
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Researchers turn attention to breast cancer prevention
Cheryl Corbin's mother and grandmother had breast cancer, so an oncologist suggested she be tested for an inherited gene mutation linked to the disease. But when the results came in, she didn't show up to hear them.
"I was afraid to hear the words,"...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Obesity, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization
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From doctor to patient to test subject
One day in June 2009, I was seeing patients at my neurology practice in Catonsville when I felt a sudden headache and noted my words seemed to be slurred. I called my wife, a speech-language pathologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and asked if she detected...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Research, American Red Cross, Baltimore County, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Opportunities running out for Ronny Paulino
– Given what's happened in the past two years, catcher Ronny Paulino isn't fazed by his current situation. That's what happens when you've been traded three times, suspended for failing a drug test and faced with a career-threatening health...
Tags: Overweight, Pittsburgh Pirates, Taylor Teagarden, Medical Procedures and Tests, New York Mets
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Screening for cancer missing the mark
The percentage of Americans screened for cancer isn't meeting national targets, and the numbers are even worse for minorities, according the first federal study looking at disparities among Asiand and Hispanic groups.
The report by the Centers for...Tags: Medical Research, Breast Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colonoscopy
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Police turn out at blood drive in honor of injured officer
Those who work in public safety consider themselves part of a brotherhood. But for the purposes of organ donation, a brother in blue may not be quite family enough, as Officer Gene Cassidy is finding out.
Cassidy was shot in the head 27 years ago in West...Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Hepatitis C , Hospitals and Clinics, Emergency Health Procedures, Cirrhosis
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Komen foundation shouldn't give any money to Planned Parenthood
It is encouraging to see the number of people willing to help women with breast cancer. However, the Susan G. Komen foundation should not give money to Planned Parenthood ("Komen reverses funding stance," Feb. 4). A quick search on Google shows many...Tags: Abortion, Hospitals and Clinics, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Breast Cancer, Google Inc.
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Hopkins, Lockheed aim to modernize the ICU
Johns Hopkins intensive care nurse Nelly E. Lopez spends so much of her workday monitoring patient distress alarms that she sometimes hears phantom beeps even when she is no longer on the job.
Hopkins doctors say Lopez's "alarm fatigue" shows what is...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Diseases and Illnesses, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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