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Former Orioles executive Jim Duquette to donate kidney to daughter
The problems of a 10-year-old sound something like this. "Can I pleeeaaase have an email account?" pleads Lindsey Duquette, jumping up and down in front of her mom, Pam Duquette, in the family kitchen in Sparks. "All my friends have email." It's...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Baseball, Radio, Nephrotic Syndrome, Dialysis
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Seniors and baby boomers mark expo's silver anniversary
The Baltimore County Baby Boomer Expo and Senior Expo 2012 will be held Wednesday, Oct. 10, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Timonium. The two-day event, which is marking its silver...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Vaccines, Heart Attack, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pneumonia
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NIH superbug outbreak a warning for local hospitals
Much of Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Jason Farley's recent research has focused on an evolving medical crisis: How to stop the spread of bacteria that have adapted immunity to most antibiotics. To stop it the medical community needs to track it. He's...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work, National Institutes of Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Union Memorial Hospital
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Maryland braces for more meningitis cases
Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid. In the cases...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Towson, Viral Diseases and Infections, Back Pain
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With 'Gold,' Chris Cleave braces for another reversal in fortune
When the British author Chris Cleave published his debut novel, "Incendiary," he fell victim to perhaps the worst historical coincidence ever to afflict an author. The book, about a terrorist attack in a London sports stadium, was released on July 7,...
Tags: Nicole Kidman, Leukemia, Movies, Enoch Pratt Free Library, The New York Times
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Blood cancers affect people of all ages
Harford County Council joins the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in designating September as Blood Cancer Awareness Month issuing a proclamation at the Council meeting on Sept. 18. Leukemia, lymphoma (both non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma) and...Tags: Leukemia, Health Treatments, Culture, Chemotherapy, Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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Howard County health briefs
Healthy kids clinic Howard County General Hospital in partnership with The Mall in Columbia will host a healthy kids clinic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Center Court. The event will feature bone density, blood pressure, height,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, HIV, Bipolar Disorder, Vitamin D, American Cancer Society
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Robert J. Cotter, Johns Hopkins medical school professor
Robert James Cotter, a Johns Hopkins scientist and professor whose work in mass spectrometry has contributed to discoveries in health and science, died last Monday of heart failure at his home at HarborView in Baltimore. He was 69. His work, which earned...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Teachers, Health and Safety at School, College of the Holy Cross , Cycling
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Transforming touch: Energy work helps animals heal themselves
Tammy Bowers left nothing to chance when Lexie, her 8-year-old Labradoodle, was scheduled to have several cancerous tumors removed two years ago. Before surgery and again after, the Howard County resident made appointments for Lexie to see Shari...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Baltimore County, Howard County, Cancer, Pharmaceuticals
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Whooping cough making a comeback in Md., U.S.
Public health officials are warning adults and adolescents to get booster shots in the wake of an unusually large number of cases of whooping cough this year around the nation and in Maryland.
More than 20,000 cases of the respiratory disease were...Tags: Insurance, Nose, Hospitals and Clinics, Chemical Industry, Health and Safety at School
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Health officials set 'low threshold' for treatment to battle meningitis outbreak
Hundreds of Marylanders may need spinal taps as public health leaders seek to rein in a fungal meningitis outbreak that continues to expand as more is learned about the unusual cases.
Health officials said Wednesday that they still are working to contact...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Chemical Industry, Back Pain, Brain, Headaches
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GlaxoSmithKline to acquire Human Genome Sciences
After spurning a hostile takeover bid from GlaxoSmithKline PLC in April, Human Genome Sciences Inc. said Monday it agreed to be bought by the biopharmaceutical giant for a more lucrative offer valued at $3.6 billion.
GlaxoSmithKline boosted its offer for...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Chemical Industry, Heart Disease, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Companies and Corporations
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