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How to achieve your fiber goals
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog Picture of Health (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth), which is reprinted here. This week, Deb Schulze weighs in on fiber....Tags: Breads, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Hospitals and Clinics
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Project seeks 1 million veterans to give blood, DNA for disease research
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for a battle it's waging at home — against disease.
Actually, more than a few are needed. Officials overseeing health care for the nation's veterans are...Tags: Research, Colleges and Universities, Chemicals, Heart Disease, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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APG joins University of Delaware in effort to improve care for wounded warriors, civilians
The Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and the University of Delaware have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement to collaborate on an orthopedic rehabilitation project that will improve rehabilitative care for wounded...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Research, Injuries and Wounds, University of Delaware, Colleges and Universities
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On medical marijuana, Maryland should go slow
With any new medical treatment, the primary consideration for doctors is the evidence — how effective is it, what are the side effects, what are the indications, what is the appropriate dose, and so on. That should go for lawmakers and regulators,...Tags: Symptoms, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Drug Trafficking
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Science and censorship
Albert Einstein once said the reason he was able to accomplish so much was because he had "stood on the shoulders of giants" like Newton and Galileo. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist's remark was a reminder how much scientists depend on discoveries...Tags: Research, National Security, Bird Flu, Viral Diseases and Infections, Genes and Chromosomes
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Avastin shown to slow ovarian cancer
A new international study shows that treating ovarian cancer with Avastin delays the disease progression and may improve survival. The drug, generically called bevacizumab, seemed to keep the disease from returning for two months. It was delayed five...Tags: Health Treatments, Cancer, Drugs and Medicines, Health Treatments, Chemotherapy
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Hopkins to study genetics of asthma in African-Americans
Johns Hopkins researchers, in the largest study to date, will map the genetic code for asthma in people of African descent in hopes of better understanding why the disease and other allergy-related ailments disproportionately afflict that population....Tags: Symptoms, Hospitals and Clinics, Research, Wheezing, Lungs and Airways
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Hopkins, Lockheed aim to modernize the ICU
Johns Hopkins intensive care nurse Nelly E. Lopez spends so much of her workday monitoring patient distress alarms that she sometimes hears phantom beeps even when she is no longer on the job.
Hopkins doctors say Lopez's "alarm fatigue" shows what is...Tags: Sepsis, Symptoms, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care, Human Mishaps
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Harry L. Rosenzweig, McDaniel math professor
Harry L. Rosenzweig, an influential mathematics professor who had been chairman of the math department at McDaniel College, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at his Westminster home.
He was 72.
"Harry was very popular with math majors and, in general,...Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Cornell University, Cancer, Colleges and Universities, Reisterstown Road
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Alejandro Rodriguez
Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez, former director of the division of child psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who also conducted pivotal studies on autism and other developmental disorders in children, died Friday of heart failure at his...Tags: Caracas (Venezuela), Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Learning Disability, Teaching and Learning
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Fit doctors more likely to talk to patients about weight loss
If you're overweight and trying to lose pounds you may not get help from your doctor if he is overweight too, according to new research.
According to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, physicians with a...Tags: Weight Loss, Overweight, Weight, Medical Research, Health and Safety at School
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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: Symptoms, Research, Drugs and Medicines, Physical Conditions, Symptoms
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