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Tuberculosis case at UMBC
Officials at the University of Maryland Baltimore County have a sent a letter to students and faculty confirming that someone on campus has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. The letter did not say if it was a student or faculty member who was infected...Tags: University of Maryland Baltimore County, Chills, Fever, Tuberculosis, Baltimore County
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Exercise classes Baltimore Washington Medical Center will offer exercise classes at its campus, 301 Hospital Drive in Glen Burnie, and at BW Health Service, 7556 Teague Road in Hanover, beginning Jan. 7. The 10-week session will offer beginning yoga,...Tags: Lobbying, Obesity, Hypothermia, Women's Health, Whooping Cough
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Robert Vigorito steps down as CEO of Columbia Triathlon Association
Given Robert Vigorito's endurance as a six-time finisher of the world-famous Ironman Triathlon event in Hawaii, many figured that his tenure with the Columbia Triathlon Association would go on forever. Those who did might be surprised to hear that...
Tags: Fractured Rib, University of Maryland Medical School, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Injuries and Wounds
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Catonsville child awaits heart after transplant falls through
Five-year-old Teresa Bartlinski was lying unconscious shortly after 3 a.m. Friday at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia when the doctor told her parents they had called off the heart transplant she was prepped to receive. The girl — whose...
Tags: China, Roman Catholicism, Medical Procedures and Tests, Catonsville, Baltimore County
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As adopted daughter awaits new heart, family prays for miracle
Nobody believed Liu Fang, born with half a heart and abandoned in a village west of Beijing, would survive long after being adopted by a Baltimore County family. Even the Bartlinskis, deeply religious Catholics, expected the girl's lungs would fail even...
Tags: China, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Catonsville, Baltimore County, Heart Transplants
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Letter: Lung cancer awareness urged
Editor: November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. This year, approximately 160,340 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer, accounting for 28 percent of all cancer deaths. That is why there is an entire month dedicated to this disease, raising...Tags: Lung Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, American Lung Association
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Planning for the worst
It's every parent's worst nightmare: the call that comes in the middle of the night or interrupts a workday. It's the police or hospital calling to say that your child is in critical condition. As an emergency medicine physician, sometimes I have been the...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Charity, Values, Maryland General Assembly, Ethics
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Letter: Ever considered the possibility of organ donation?
Editor: Have you or your family ever considered the possibility of organ donation? It is not a subject that is easily discussed, but it is a very important issue and one that should be shared with all members of your family. There are 115,662 people...Tags: Pancreas, Charity, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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High-casual event raises funds to fight disease
His mother's death 16 years ago came as a sudden shock to Sean Hull. Even more distressing was the family's discovery that Ida Hull had suffered in silence for years with sarcoidosis, a debilitating, often fatal disease that frequently attacks the lungs....
Tags: Festivus, Medical Procedures and Tests, Harbor East, Symptoms, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Camden Yards event looks to brush back lung cancer
The Baltimore SunMonica Barlow hates being asked whether she is a former smoker. To her it doesn't matter. To the people she meets who hear she is battling Stage 4 lung cancer, it seems the only possible explanation. "The answer is no, but that kind of frustrates me,...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Drugs and Medicines, Research, Medical Research, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Morgan State wins, 30-27, over Sacred Heart in 4th OT
Standing on the Morgan State sideline, running back Travis Davidson couldn't bring himself to watch Sacred Heart's Chris Rogers attempt the game-winning field goal in the third overtime of Saturday's season opener. "I'm very superstitious," Davidson...Tags: Football, Morgan State University, Chris Rogers, Respiratory Disease, Amputation
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Hopkins aims to make ICU safer with $8.9 million grant
Johns Hopkins will use an $8.9 million gift to make intensive care units safer for patients, expanding on the institution's past work to reduce medical mistakes that have long troubled hospitals.
The grant is part of a 10-year, $500 million program &#...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Breast Cancer, Medical Specialization, Medical Research, Intel Corp.
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