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County council hopes to battle obesity with task force
Harford County is fairly healthy, though more than 60 percent of its adults and children are classified as either overweight or obese, a rate that has tripled since 1996, according to the health department. Harford also ranks worse than the rest of the...Tags: Weight, Land Resources, Preventative Medicine, Death, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Energy Answers incinerator project would put the health of thousands of Baltimore residents at risk
Columnist Jay Hancock's effort to take another journalistic swipe at BGE and Constellation Energy leaves the impression that the Energy Answers incinerator planned for Baltimore City is a benign, renewable energy project worth Marylanders' support ("...Tags: Religious Education, Brain, Benjamin Franklin, Immune System, Human Body
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Acid reflux drugs don't help asthma in children
A new study has found that acid reflux medicine used to treat asthma in children isn't effective.
Physicians often prescribe the acid reflux drug lansoprazole in addition to standard inhaled steroid drugs to children who have asthma. The number of...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Health and Safety at School, Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Placebo
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Varsity Q&A: Ben Pickett, John Carroll, cross country
Four-year John Carroll cross country runner Ben Pickett is tall and slim. But he's tough, too.
The 6-foot, 125-pound Pickett suffered a collapsed lung in August 2010, but it wasn't diagnosed until this January. While it was undiagnosed, Pickett won...Tags: Back Pain
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Baltimore Co. to ban smoking in county-owned vehicles
Baltimore County plans to prohibit employees from smoking in government vehicles, including police cars and maintenance trucks, a county health official confirmed.
Dr. Gregory Wm. Branch, the county health officer, recommended the move to county...Tags: Nose, Human Rights, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Diseases and Illnesses, Kevin Kamenetz
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Dolphin calves died of pneumonia, internal bleeding, National Aquarium says
Pneumonia killed one dolphin calf at the National Aquarium last month while internal bleeding took the life of another baby days later, according to results of a necropsy released Friday.
The aquarium has yet to resume its popular dolphin shows because...Tags: Medical Specialization, Inner Harbor, National Aquarium Baltimore, Stress, Hemorrhaging
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New sleep wellness center at Laurel Regional offers expanded services to the sleep deprived
Beginning in 1995, 46-year-old Anita Sills of Laurel developed sleeping problems that worsened to the point that she would wake up in the middle of the night every two or three hours.
"I thought I was having nightmares because my heart would be beating...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Weight, Headaches, National Institutes of Health, Physical Conditions
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Student's essay recalls father's battle against cancer
Towson resident Alex Pizzala, 16, lost his father to lung cancer in May 2010. Tom Pizzala was 55 when he died. Pizzala put his grief into words, and through a blog and an essay about the loss of his father, the 2011 Loyola Blakefield graduate has...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Brain, Happiness (state of mind), Human Body, Awards and Prizes
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Anne Arundel teacher retires after 44 years
Linda Flaherty has been teaching at Mayo Elementary School in Edgewater for so long that she says her first students are now approaching their mid-50s. She was hired out of college in 1967, when Lyndon B. Johnson was president and the first Super Bowl was...Tags: Super Bowl, Anne Arundel County, Lyndon B. Johnson, COPD, Maryland
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Life expectancy low, but growing in city
Women in large swaths of America are dying younger than they were a generation ago, reversing nearly a century of progress in public health and underscoring the rising toll of smoking and record obesity. Nationwide, life expectancy for American men and...Tags: Japan, Physical Conditions, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania, Migration
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Dealing with childhood asthma
Of the nation's 22 million people with asthma, six million are children, according to the National Institutes of Health. In Baltimore, as many as one in five children suffers from the condition and many go untreated. Dr. Keyvan Rafei, head of pediatric...Tags: Common Cold, Family, Chemical Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, National Institutes of Health
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