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St. Mary's students learn to love life aboard cruise ship
— Michelle DiMenna digs into a salad and flips through a novel on the balcony above her college dorm room.
It's the kind of leisure time a college freshman usually takes for granted — oblivious to the grinding days of work and family...Tags: Television Industry, Students, Colleges and Universities, Television, Apple iPod
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Goddesses and Friends watch over Wyman Park Dell
A Union soldier, flanked by goddesses, stands vigil in a Civil War monument that rises high above Wyman Park Dell at Charles and 29th streets.
Area residents are looking out for the dell, too.
They gathered 20-strong at the foot of the statue Saturday,...Tags: Landforms, Arts, Mountains, Wars and Interventions, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Education part of mother's plan to cope with daughter's rare childhood disorder
When Emma-Leigh Savage was born four years ago next month, she weighed two pounds and seven ounces.
She wasn't breathing when she was born at the University of Maryland Medical Center and needed to be resuscitated.
No one expected her to live more...Tags: Catonsville, Nursing, Community College of Baltimore County, Genes and Chromosomes, Medical Research
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Be safe with legal fireworks, and enjoy a sparkling Fourth of July
With the Fourth of July around the corner — and packages of colorful sparklers starting to appear in stores and roadside tents — it's time to think about fireworks safety. Here are a few tips that people should remember: • Fireworks... -
Howard rec center joins record bid for largest swim lesson
For the three Wigley brothers, the pool outing was more about doing cannonballs and pretending to be alligators than being part of a worldwide event.
But for the staff at the Roger Carter Recreation Center in historic Ellicott City, Tuesday's focus was...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Washington, DC, Charity, American Red Cross, Ellicott City
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Lupron therapy for autism at center of embattled doctor's case
Since Sam Wessels was diagnosed with autism at age 2, doctors have offered his mother a litany of drugs for the boy from Prozac and Ritalin to Metadate CD and Strattera, commonly used to treat ADHD. Other "alternative" medicine pitches have included...Tags: Chemical Industry, Vaccines, Drugs and Medicines, Maryland, Prostate Cancer
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Alternative autism treatments can be appealing to desperate parents
After her daughter Jodie was diagnosed with autism, Alison Singer went online, searching desperately for anything that looked like it might help her little girl.
She tried gluten-free and casein-free diets and supplements. She sprinkled something...Tags: General Practitioners, Diets and Dieting, Vaccines, Television, Maryland
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Baltimore officials hope half-century trend of population decline at end
Arriving in Baltimore for college in 2004 from her native New York City, Vienna DeGiacomo assumed she would quickly head back north after graduating from Goucher College. But nearly three years after receiving her English degree, DeGiacomo, 24, is...Tags: Family, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, 2010 Census, Annapolis, Bankruptcy
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From Sun Magazine: Earliest intervention
When Ginny Russo goes into labor sometime at the end of May, her first call will be to her doctor. Her second: to the researchers who want to collect her baby's placenta, umbilical cord blood and first dirty diaper.
They're part of the same crew that,...Tags: Maryland, Autism, Genes and Chromosomes, Medical Research, Behavioral Conditions
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Health department investigating destruction of lead paint records
The state's health secretary said Friday that his department's laboratory has destroyed test results dating back to the 1980s documenting lead poisoning of Maryland children — potentially thousands of records that plaintiffs' lawyers say are crucial...Tags: Trials, Medical Procedures and Tests, Douglas F. Gansler, Maryland, Family
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Kennedy Krieger program trains parents to foster children with special needs
For Jason and Hollie Costa, falling in love with feisty 5-year-old Daeonna Smith was the easy part. Deciding whether to parent a child with special needs, however, tested their resolve.
The Columbia couple didn't know anything about spina bifida, the...Tags: Social Services, Happiness (state of mind), Medical Procedures and Tests, Stress, Family
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