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Broken ankle fractures life as you know it
Forgive my absence from these pages, but I recently suffered a dislocated fracture of my ankle while saving a kitten from a speeding car.
The bad news is, it required reconstructive surgery and I have to spend the next six weeks on my butt. The good news...Tags: Chemicals, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Health and Medical Professionals, Human Body
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Researchers look to genetics to understand African American-asthma link
Researchers working to discover why African Americans disproportionately suffer from asthma are planning to map the genetic code of 1,000 people of African descent in four years. The Johns Hopkins-led team of experts in genetics, immunology, epidemiology...Tags: Medical Research, Drugs and Medicines, Biology, Wheezing, Chest
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Exhibit brings together 'Eureka' moments in science
Earle Havens can almost hear their voices.
Each time Havens steps inside the George Peabody Library, he senses the muted exclamations, the murmured back-and-forth of a conversation that's been going on now for more than two millennia.
In one corner,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Religious Texts, Colleges and Universities, Archimedes, Oncology
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Dr. John B. MacGibbon, treated mariners at port of Baltimore
Dr. John Butler MacGibbon, an internal medicine specialist who treated port of Baltimore mariners, died Dec. 24 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of complications of a stroke and a fall. He was 90 and lived in Original Northwood.
Born in Christchurch,...Tags: New Zealand, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, College Sports, Health and Medical Professionals
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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, Medical Research, Cancer, Drugs and Medicines, Health Treatments
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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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Senior briefs
Support groups The Department of Aging and Disabilities has revised and updated a booklet on "Community Support Groups." Information contained in the booklet focuses on groups designed for caregiving, Alzheimer's disease, bereavement for adults and...Tags: Cancer, Curling, Physical Conditions, Ice Hockey, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Education briefs
Peer learning Anne Arundel Community College's Peer Learning Partnership, which meets year-round for noncredit classes, discussion groups and cultural and social events, will hold a preview of its 12 spring and five summer courses at 10 a.m. Jan. 4, in...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Anne Arundel Community College, Colleges and Universities, Students, Colleges and Universities
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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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The power of light
It doesn’t look like much -- Janet Althen places what looks like a small flashlight with an inverted colored bulb on certain points of the body, holding it there for about 30 seconds -- but for Althen’s patients, as well as a growing number of...Tags: Symptoms, Lupus, The Happiest News!, Mental Health, Health Treatments
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Helen Cruse, nurse
Helen Cruse, a retired nurse, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Jan. 31 at the Summit Park Nursing Home. The Gwynn Oak resident was 88.
Born Helen Mariano in Baltimore, she was raised on Stricker Street and attended Baltimore City public...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics
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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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