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DREAM Act links ambition with opportunity
Recently, people who would benefit from the Maryland DREAM Act rallied in Baltimore outside the Fallon Federal Building, which houses the local office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. In Spanish and English, the speakers told...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Biology, Immigration, Rick Perry, Medical Specialization
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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: Washington, DC, Medical Research, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Stevensville, Anne Arundel County
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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: Medical Research, University of Cincinnati, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities
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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: Medical Research, Finance, Entertainment Events, Johns Hopkins University, Genes and Chromosomes
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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: Medical Research, Genes and Chromosomes, Respiratory Disease, Lungs and Airways, Biology
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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, Genes and Chromosomes, Chest, Health and Safety at School
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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: Brown University, Howard County, University of Connecticut, New York University, Biology
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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: Maryland State Fair, Biology, Human Body, Medical Specialization, Timonium
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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: Entertainment Events, Heart Attack, Biology, Emergency Health Procedures, Medical Procedures and Tests
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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: Medical Research, Diabetes, Biotechnology Industry, Johns Hopkins University, Genes and Chromosomes
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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: Genes and Chromosomes, Pharmaceuticals, Biology, Behavioral Conditions, Medical Procedures and Tests
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City researchers to take part in autism study
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Kennedy Krieger Institute will take part in what's being called one of the largest studies to examine the early causes of autism. While other studies have asked if autism is caused solely by genetics or only by...Tags: Medical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Biology, Children, Kennedy Krieger Institute
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