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Senior briefs
Support groups The Department of Aging and Disabilities has updated a booklet on community support groups. The booklet focuses on groups for care giving, Alzheimer's disease, bereavement for adults and children, diabetes, brain injury, cancer, stroke,...Tags: CVS Corp., Concerts, Annapolis, Brooklyn Park, Holidays
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89 MD facilities bought drugs from company involved in meningitis outbreak
The Food and Drug Administration released a new list of more than 3,000 hospitals that bought drugs from the company at the center of a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, including 89 facilities in Maryland. The drugs bought by Maryland facilities...
Tags: Cosmetic Procedures, Harford Road, Meningitis, Health and Medical Professionals, University of Maryland Medical Center
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89 Md. facilities bought drugs from firm linked to meningitis outbreak
The federal Food and Drug Administration identified 89 medical facilities in Maryland that bought drugs from the Massachusetts manufacturer being investigated for a national fungal meningitis outbreak. The facilities are among more than 3,000 in numerous...
Tags: Back Pain, Bevacizumab (drug), Harford Road, Meningitis, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore
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$2 million prize announced for cure for blindness by 2020
Singer Art Garfunkel, a real estate magnate and an investor are putting $2 million in gold bullion on the line to inspire researchers to cure blindness by 2020, establishing through Johns Hopkins Medicine one of the world's largest prizes for a scientific...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Health and Safety at School, Johns Hopkins University, Art Garfunkel, Food and Drug Administration
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Dr. Michael Boland joins Wilmer Eye Clinic in Bel Air
Michael Boland, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine, is seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Center). He is certified by the American...Tags: Glaucoma, University of Pittsburgh, University of Iowa, Science, Technology
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Eye-opening service project at Hammond Middle benefits Ethiopia
Students at Hammond Middle School put away their textbooks on Friday, Nov. 30, and left the classroom for a different kind of education. To raise money and awareness for a program one of their teachers is participating in, the entire student...
Tags: Ethiopia, Cataracts, Teachers, Students, Physical Conditions
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Wilmer Eye Institute celebrates new locations in Bel Air, HdG
The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine commemorated the grand opening of its Bel Air and Havre de Grace locations (both formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Centers) during a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony. These two sites represent the ninth...
Tags: Glaucoma, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medical Research, Havre de Grace, Ophthalmology
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Diabetes leading to blindness in many people
Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults 20 to 74 years old. Dr. Michael Grodin, co-director of retinal services and director of clinical research at Katzen Eye Group, discusses eye problems and the link to diabetes.
Why is...Tags: Glaucoma, Cataracts, Diabetes, Medical Research, Physical Conditions
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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: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Cataracts, Johns Hopkins University
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Rare disorder nearly takes Baltimore woman's sight
When Tamika Morgan developed red irritated eyes in the fall of 2010, she wasted no time heading to an optometrist at a local retail store who gave her drops for pink eye.
Her eyes got worse over the next few days so she went to a local hospital to see an...Tags: Cancer, Health and Safety at School, Diseases and Illnesses, Arthritis, University of Baltimore
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Eyelid inflammation becoming more common
Blepharitis, usually identified by a sufferer's red, irritated eyelids, is becoming more common. And while doctors aren't sure why, it can be controlled with vigilance, according to Dr. Laura K. Green, residency program director of cornea, cataract and...Tags: Fish Oil (dietary supplement), Inflammation, Diseases and Illnesses, Psoriasis, Human Body
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Seeing more than just blurred vision in your eye exam
When people come to the Reisterstown office of Drs. Eickhoff & Rowe for eye exams, the optometrists do more than simply ask which line of letters they can read on the eye chart.
Like other eye doctors, James Eickhoff starts with a "complete case history,...Tags: Park Slope, Companies and Corporations, Heart Disease, Health Insurance Cost, Medical Research
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