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Lawyers question Olenick's health prior to surgery death
The medical history of a 17-year-old Marriotts Ridge High School junior who died last year following routine wisdom teeth surgery is now being questioned by lawyers for the dental practitioners involved in the surgery, who are being sued by the girl's...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Heart Problems, Lawyers, Behavioral Conditions, Anxiety
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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: University of Maryland Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Maryland, College Park, Colleges and Universities, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Sallie P. Mink, registered nurse
Sallie P. Mink, a registered nurse who for 20 years had been educational director for depression and related affective disorders at Johns Hopkins Hospital, died Saturday of brain cancer at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The one-time Ruxton resident who...Tags: Science, Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Illness, Timonium
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Bel Air family holds yard sale for ailing firefighter
When firefighter AJ Pumilia went to the emergency room last June because he wasn't feeling well, the word "cancer" wasn't even mentioned. By December, the husband and father was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor and fighting for his life. "Doctors...
Tags: Charity, Companies and Corporations, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Human Body
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Hereford students organize Relay for Life fundraiser to honor classmate
William Levasseur was home-schooled until it was time for high school and he decided to go to Hereford High. He already knew many of the students there since he had played on a Hereford Recreation Council travel soccer team the previous year.
In his...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Youth Organizations, Health Organizations, Lacrosse, Chemotherapy
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'Zaching' catching on at Maryland and abroad
Torrey Smith’s doing it. Dane Cook’s doing it. Your esteemed representatives in the Maryland House of Delegates are probably doing it, too.
“Zaching,” Zach Lederer’s defiant strongman pose in the face of two brain tumors...Tags: MRI (imaging), Mark Turgeon, Duke Blue Devils, Maryland General Assembly, The Huffington Post
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Men Making a Difference: Mark Gregory
Mark Gregory remembers.
He remembers dates. There was the day after Thanksgiving in 1989, when doctors found a tumor near his brain. Then there was July 26, 1991, when Gregory, who’d been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, underwent a bone marrow...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Health Organizations, Health Organizations, National Institutes of Health
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Young football players at greater concussion risk than pros
From what he remembers, and it isn't much, Cameron Williams was cold. On a steaming autumn day last year in Burtonsville, the 13-year-old shivered as he walked back to his Unity Thunder football team's huddle, barely able to keep his eyes open. Dizzy,...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Chicago Bears, College Sports, Advanced Training, Martin O'Malley
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The power of meditation
To understand the impact meditation can have on the human mind, picture a glass of muddy water. If you stir it, the water stays cloudy and anything that might sink to the bottom is instantly sucked back into motion. But if you allow the glass to become...Tags: Acupuncture, Behavioral Conditions, Hinduism, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Mental Health
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Stress may cause brain to shrink
If you're stressed out from a divorce, a hard day at work or a fight with your girlfriend it might be causing your brain to shrink. A study by Yale University researchers found that stressful life events can reduce gray matter in regions of the brain...Tags: Yale University, Behavioral Conditions, National Institutes of Health, High Blood Pressure, Stress
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Ellicott City teen's fight with cancer inspires 'Zaching' craze
Zach Lederer is an inspirational guy. Just ask his many hundreds of friends and admirers, from Ellicott City to Australia, Annapolis to Athens, and many points in between.
Last month, 18-year-old Zach, a graduate of Centennial High School and freshman at...Tags: Ellicott City, College Sports, Annapolis, Facebook, Cancer
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Zach Lederer, 'Zaching,' and the local teen's bold fight against cancer
It is an image that has inspired hundreds, if not thousands.
Zach Lederer, 18, stares directly and defiantly into the camera, arms up and flexed in a muscle pose, surrounded by the medical accouterments of his hospital bed.
He had just come out of brain...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, College Sports, Adam Carolla, Colleges and Universities, Chemotherapy
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