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Variety of research carried out at Fort Detrick
Sun reporterFort Detrick, where scientist Bruce E. Ivins worked for more than three decades, is the largest U.S. government research center focused primarily on biodefense. Set on a former airfield north of Frederick where the Maryland National Guard once based a...Tags: Armed Forces, Research, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, American Red Cross
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Moving on, fighting on
Dr. Leisha Emens dreads the calls she has been getting lately. The news is rarely good. "A lot of people are dying right now. It's to be expected. These people have an incurable disease," Emens says in late August, as she wraps up her early work running...Tags: Walt Disney, Surgery, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Amusement and Theme Parks
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'Leisha's Girls' come together
Anita is dead.
The news, in the first week of August, jolts this loose-knit community of women participating in a trial of an experimental breast cancer vaccine. Just a year ago their friend had triumphantly shared that she was cancer-free, practically...Tags: Research, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Mastectomy
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Uprooting a mystery
At first, he thought it must be a hoax.
The man in the picture didn't have hands at the ends of his arms; he had what looked like tree branches - two masses of tangled, overgrown bark.
In more than 20 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Anthony Gaspari,...Tags: Hands, Trips and Vacations, Television, Diplomacy, Pharmaceuticals
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Elusive cure
In a darkened slice of a convention center ballroom, Dr. Leisha Emens takes her place in front of hundreds gathered to hear about her latest research.
The Johns Hopkins oncologist doesn't look particularly comfortable in the spotlight. This is no way...Tags: Research, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Mastectomy, Family
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What a vaccine does
In the nearly 40 years since the nation declared war on cancer, great advances have been made in breast cancer screening, early detection and treatment. The death rate for breast cancers has fallen. More is discovered all the time about the genetics and...Tags: Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oncology
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The job of getting well
As Darby Steadman steps out of her champagne Volvo station wagon, the valet parking attendants at the Johns Hopkins garage warmly welcome one of their regulars. She'll make the 30-minute trip from her Severna Park home every day this week and more than...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Clinics, Oncology
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The trial of their lives
For the past two days, Annie Siple has patiently crisscrossed the Johns Hopkins medical campus for test after test, being scanned by big machines, pricked with small needles, fastened to electrodes, injected with dye. Soon she will find out who is...Tags: Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Amusement and Theme Parks, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics
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An epidemic's unseen cause
Sun reporterWhile just a teenager in the 1970s, she danced on The Block, where she snorted cocaine and heroin and sold sex in back rooms. Later, with her addictions firmly rooted, she set out on her own, offering her body on the streets of West Baltimore as a...Tags: San Francisco, History, Medical Research, Family, Colleges and Universities
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It's not working
The elevator doors open on the fifth floor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Peggy Murphy tentatively steps out, as if crossing a threshold in the struggle to stay ahead of her breast cancer. Last fall, she had been accepted into Dr. Leisha Emens' clinical...Tags: Surgery, Pharmaceuticals, Mastectomy, Hospitals and Clinics, Fells Point
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Many steps to a fresh start
Sun reporterAngela Jackson strides down Pennsylvania Avenue with pamphlets under her arm, unfazed by the line of dealers hawking drugs beneath blinking police cameras. "James Brown, James Brown!" cries one young man, applying the late soul star's name to his heroin...Tags: Patapsco, History, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Colleges and Universities
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No quit in cheaters thanks to continuous medical advances
Sun reporterMajor League Baseball officials have spoken of former Sen. George Mitchell's report on steroids as a way to put a stamp of understanding on the past and move toward a cleaner future. But those who have battled doping for much longer in cycling, track and...Tags: Steroids, Surgery, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Clinics
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