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Abortion clinics lose licenses again
State health regulators suspended the licenses of several abortion clinics owned by Associates in OB/GYN Care for the second time after an employee with no health care license or certification gave a patient a drug to induce an abortion at the Baltimore...
Tags: General Practitioners, Heart Problems, Hospitals and Clinics, Family Planning, Advanced Training
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Norovirus likely caused sickness at Pot Spring Elementary, officials say
Norovirus was likely the culprit that sickened 200 students and nine staff members at Pot Spring Elementary in Timonium last week, Baltimore County health officials have found. About a third of the school's students were absent May 17 because of...
Tags: Calicivirus, Symptoms, Health and Safety at School, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lab Tests
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Weems Creek OK for swimming
It's safe to swim and wade in Weems Creek in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County health officials said Thursday. Water quality tests showed the creek meets water quality guidelines for bacteria. The creek had been off-limits from the headwaters to Rowe...
Tags: Annapolis
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Remembering Bear, a little boy whose life was way too short [Commentary]
"Where do you even start? Bear was a very energetic, very loving kid. Everything he did, he just had fun with it." - Patrick Brzozowski When I asked Patrick and Stacy Brzozowski to describe their son, that's the first thing they said. "He was always...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, University of Maryland Medical Center
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Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation
"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Diabetes, Ovarian Cancer, Heart Disease, Chemotherapy
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Harford fire, EMS service needs fixing [Editorial]
Harford County's fire and EMS service is a mess. As one Old-Timer used to say, "Rome wasn't built in a day." Nor was the mess that fire and EMS service has become. Let's get this straight before we go any further: This is not an attack on the men and...Tags: Havre de Grace, Hospitals and Clinics
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Angelina Jolie among growing number of women choosing mastectomy before cancer
Actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy rather than risk developing breast cancer hit close to home for Melissa DeSantis, a Bel Air mother of three children. As DeSantis read about Jolie's experience, she began to feel a sense of...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Oncology, Hospitals and Clinics, Susan G. Komen for the Cure
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State settles condemnation case with Maryland Green Marble
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, May 9, 1963: One of the longest condemnation cases ever heard in the Harford County Circuit Court was settled. The Maryland Green Marble Corporation of Cardiff signed an option with the State Roads...Tags: Radio, Tuberculosis, Radio Industry, Havre de Grace, Harford County
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Construction contract awarded for new HCC nursing, allied health building
Kinsley Construction Company of York, Pa., was recently selected as the builder of Harford Community College's new Nursing and Allied Health Building. Kinsley was selected for the $13.9 million contract after members of the HCC Board of Trustees reviewed...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Nursing, Teaching and Learning, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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High health care costs are killing America
The health care industry — doctors, hospitals, medical facilities and pharmaceuticals — will do this country in and only the rich will survive ("Costs vary for same treatment," May 9). It does not make sense for hospitals to charge varying...Tags: Health Insurance Cost
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Alexi Casilla experimenting with batting right-handed against righties
The Baltimore SunInfielder Alexi Casilla, who has been a switch-hitter since he was 16, said hitting coach Jim Presley approached him about concentrating on hitting from the right side only, and he has been working on that for a few weeks in the cage. “They think I...Tags: Mike Pelfrey, Baltimore Orioles, Miguel Gonzalez, X-rays, Spring Training
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Howard County health briefs
Screenings The county Health Department's North Laurel Health Center, 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road, will offer walk-in HIV/AIDS testing services from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Fridays and from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. by appointment: 410-313-0630. Also,...Tags: Dermatologists, Ellicott City, Health Organizations, Parkinson's Disease, Prostate Cancer
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