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Pamela F. Engel, teacher
Pamela Furness Engel, an Anne Arundel County biology teacher and teaching adviser, died of pancreatic cancer May 16 at Baltimore-Washington Medical Center. She was 58 and lived in Linthicum.
Born Pamela Furness in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville...Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Towson University, Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities
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Howard County weddings and engagements
Sharon and Jerry Kramer, of Ellicott City, announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Elizabeth Kramer, to Stephen Robert Heussler, son of Robert and the late Marcia Heussler, of Hamden, Conn. Allison E. Kramer and Stephen R. Huessler Sharon and...Tags: Towson University, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Biology, Family
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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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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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American science losing ground
You win some, you lose some. That appears to be the current state of affairs with federal funding for research. Congress recently passed legislation providing a modest increase in funding to the National Institutes of Health, which funds research at the...Tags: Cancer, Research, Genes and Chromosomes, Daniel Nathans, Human Body
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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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Dr. Constance A. "Connie" Griffin
Dr. Constance A. "Connie" Griffin, an internationally known pancreatic cancer researcher who led the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center's Cytogenetics Core and was director of the Pathology Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, died Jan. 8 of pancreatic...Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Colleges and Universities, Research
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Team effort saves Baltimore half-marathon runner in cardiac arrest
Like many veteran marathoners, Bob Pohl always had an eye on the clock.
"I used to tell my wife that if I drop in a race to stop my watch because I don't want to go to the hereafter with a bad time," he said. "The joke was funnier before."
The 55-...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Heart and Circulatory System, Track and Field, Emergency Health Procedures, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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Tibbs' cattle bring home six blue ribbons and five awards from State Fair
It was the Tibbs family's first time showing six animals at the recent Maryland State Fair in Timonium and each won a blue ribbon. But award-winning animals are nothing new for the family.
Bob and Judy Tibbs, who own Shadow Springs Farm near Havre de...Tags: Timonium, Livestock Farming, Biology, Animals, Human Body
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Autism doctor: My therapy is unconventional, but it works
If there's a single statement that everyone who works in the field of autism can agree on, it's that there is so much that we still don't know.
Medical professionals can't even definitively say why more children are being diagnosed as having autism or...Tags: Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Chemicals, American Academy of Pediatrics, Genes and Chromosomes
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What a vaccine does
In the nearly 40 years since the nation declared war on cancer, great advances have been made in breast cancer screening, early detection and treatment. The death rate for breast cancers has fallen. More is discovered all the time about the genetics and...Tags: Cancer, Trials, Tumors, Chemotherapy, Immune System
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Of trust and science
On a recent morning they knocked on Mary Ann Stoltzfus' door, the research nurse and her Amish helper, just as they have on so many doors over the years. They didn't call ahead - most Amish don't have telephones. They tracked down Stoltzfus the old-...Tags: Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Disease, Genes and Chromosomes, Science
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