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Tom Brady loses coach, others may benefit
Tom Martinez, longtime personal coach to New England Patriot Quarterback Tom Brady was slated to come to Johns Hopkins Hospital for a life-saving kidney transplant in coming months. But the Associated Press reported today that he died.
The story says...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Attack, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Facebook
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Emergency preparation for dialysis patients
Dialysis is a lifesaving treatment for those with kidney disorders. But during emergencies, particularly bad weather, sometimes patients don't want to go — or can't get to — their usual dialysis center. There are some steps patients can take...Tags: Radio, Heart Failure, Medical Procedures and Tests, Flu Vaccine, Dietary Supplements
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Arbutus mother, daughter celebrate gift of kidney donation one year later
Jamie Conway didn't ask for any presents this Christmas.
The 31-year-old Arbutus resident knows she will never receive a gift better than what her mother, Valerie Eigner, gave her last year.
On Dec. 23, 2010, Eigner, then 59, donated a kidney to her...Tags: Charity, Lupus, Trips and Vacations, Holidays, Druid Hill
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Tom Brady highlights need for kidney donations
When the Super Bowl ends Sunday, win or lose, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is likely to exchange texts with one man.
When Brady was 12, he met Tom Martinez at a football camp at the College of San Mateo in California and has sought the...Tags: Concerts, Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics, New England Patriots, Super Bowl
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Life-threatening sepsis appears to be on rise
Every year, some 750,000 Americans develop sepsis, an extreme immune system response to infection. It kills a quarter to half of them, more than the combined number of people who die of prostate and breast cancer and AIDS, according to the National...Tags: Sepsis, Pancreas, Hospitals and Clinics, Chemicals, Heart and Circulatory System
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One former Terps player's loss brings another renewed health
Too much was happening at once.
It seemed that years worth of life-altering news — some good, some tragic — was being compressed into a single, unforgettable day.
Remarkably, the thread that tied the day's events together was football.
It...Tags: Ralph Friedgen, Dining and Drinking, Football, Randy Edsall, Orthopedic Surgery
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Study reveals strongest link yet between organ transplants, cancer
The most comprehensive study ever on the link between organ donations and cancer is arming physicians with new data that could help make the procedures safer.
Organ transplant patients get new kidneys, livers and lungs that save their lives, but they...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Research, Cancer, Pancreas, Immune System
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Josephine D. "Josie" Davis, dialysis patient for 36 years, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterJosephine D. "Josie" Davis, a dialysis patient for 36 years who continued to work for the Social Security Administration during her treatment, died Aug. 19 from kidney disease at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 63 and lived in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Wages and Pensions, National Security, Social Security, Kidney Disease
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Officials attack BGE over outages; City, Baltimore. Co., Arundel most affected
Power restoration to Baltimore County homes in the wake of Hurricane Irene lagged behind the rest of the state Wednesday, as tens of thousands of residents entered a fourth evening without lights.
Large numbers of Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County...Tags: Chemicals, Kevin Kamenetz, Executive Branch, Long Term Care, Randallstown
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Triple kidney swap: 'We think it is the future'
Joy Hindle cried when she found out she couldn't give one of her kidneys to her twin brother.
Then doctors gave the Bel Air woman another option: a kidney exchange, in which she would donate her kidney to a patient who needed one, and her diabetic...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Kidney Disease, Human Body
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Hundreds in Havre de Grace again oppose toll hikes
The Maryland Transportation Authority got another earful of fervent opposition to its proposed toll increases on the Susquehanna River bridges during a public hearing in Havre de Grace on Monday night. The turnout was smaller than the pressing crowds...Tags: Local Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Harford County
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Emergency planning for homebound aged
Days before the first snowflake fell, the region's home health clinicians pondered not only how they would care for elderly homebound patients during last weekend's historic storm, but if they could reach their doorsteps at all. They began extensive...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Emergency Planning, Nursing, Transportation
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