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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Quit smoking programs The Learn To Live program of the Anne Arundel County Department of Health offers quit-smoking and power-to-quit-smoking kits. Kits are available from the Learn To Live Line, 410-222-7979, or from the Spanish language Line, 410-222-...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Stroke, Prostate, Blood Pressure Decrease, Diseases and Illnesses
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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, Baltimore County, Tuberculosis, Chills, Diseases and Illnesses
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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: Lou Gehrig's Disease, University of Maryland Medical School, Diseases and Illnesses, Injuries and Wounds, Fractured Rib
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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: John Paul II, China, Catonsville, Birth Defects, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Fells Point, Catonsville, Birth Defects, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease
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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: American Lung Association, Diseases and Illnesses, Lung Cancer
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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: Values, Family, General Practitioners, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland General Assembly
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Editorial: Ban on smoking at community college follows a campus trend
"One of these days, they'll ban outdoor smoking." That was a rueful refrain heard a decade or so ago from smokers as they were banished from indoor public spaces and relegated to lawns and building stoops if they wanted to light up. That was prophetic,...Tags: Towson University, Essex (Baltimore, Maryland), Baltimore County, Catonsville, Dundalk
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Toxic mystery surrounds Salisbury-area wells
In the 20 years she's lived on the outskirts of Salisbury, Arlene White said she'd never noticed anything unusual about her tap water.
Now, though, White and dozens of neighbors are drinking bottled water and limiting their bathing after tests found...Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health and Safety at Work, Headaches
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St. Agnes Hospital offers help for sleep-related problems
While health professionals encourage people to get from seven to eight hours of sleep nightly, millions of Americans are falling well short of that mark. Many are getting just five to six hours and recent studies have shown that more than 20 percent of...Tags: Heart Disease, Sleep Disorders, Physical Conditions, Hospitals and Clinics, Cardiologists
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At Relay for Life, emotions on display in battle against cancer
Donna Holt was healthy and strong, a breast cancer survivor. But while training for the Iron Girl Columbia Triathlon in 2009, she was surprised to find she couldn't complete the practice swim. Turns out, the breast cancer she had conquered in 1998 had...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Netherlands, Breast Cancer, Ellicott City, Relay for Life
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Dr. Solbert Permutt, physiologist
Dr. Solbert "Sol" Permutt, a retired physiologist and teacher who helped expand the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, died of esophageal cancer May 23 at Roland Park Place. The longtime Mount...Tags: University of Alabama, Awards and Prizes, Asthma, COPD, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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