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Lutherville: Thinking Day will help mark Girl Scouting 100th birthday
Girl Scouting will celebrate its 100th anniversary on March 12, celebrating how Juliette Lowe brought scouting to Savannah, Ga., to start this wonderful program for girls in the United States. Our local Girl Scout Service Unit will celebrate Thinking Day...Tags: Ceremonies, Allergies, American Legion, Culture, Christianity
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Edgewater Elementary parents still concerned about building's air quality
On an evening when the weather was unseasonably warm, the Edgewater Elementary School cafeteria was uncomfortably stuffy. Doors were opened to allow cooler air inside, providing some relief for dozens of parents, students and staff who assembled last week...Tags: PTA, Allergies, Schools, Public Schools, Health and Safety at School
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Advocates voice concerns over embattled foster care provider
Advocates for Maryland's abused and neglected youths said Wednesday that the state's second-largest foster care placement company failed the children in its care by allowing the qualification assessments of the homes they live in to lapse. Ed Kilcullen,...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Hyattsville (Prince George's County, Maryland), Employment, Companies and Corporations, Internal Revenue Service
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Health Enterprise Zones to target disparities in state
Frustrated by Maryland's high rate of health disparities, state leaders are proposing a new attack — one more commonly associated with economic development.
Gov. Martin O'Malley's 2012-2013 budget will include funding to create Health Enterprise...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance Cost, University of Maryland, College Park
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J. Claver Richardson, teacher
Joseph Claver Richardson, a retired teacher and World War II veteran who was the patriarch of a family of nearly 60 children and grandchildren, died of cardiac arrest related to asthma Jan. 8 at Sinai Hospital. He was 89 and lived in Walbrook Junction....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Seminaries, Washington, DC, Martin Luther King Jr., Christianity
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Abingdon man first in the U.S. to get synthetic trachea transplant
Doctors in America told Chris Lyles a cancerous tumor on his windpipe was inoperable, but he and his family wouldn't take no for an answer.
They wrote surgeons all over the world, pleading for someone to take his case. Then during an Internet search,...Tags: Health Treatments, Concerts, Stockholm (Sweden), Music, Music
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Omega-3s: Are they all equal?
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post. This week, Elaine Pelc weighs in on Omega-3 fatty acids.
Over the past few years there has been a lot of hype over Omega-3 fatty acids. They are said to help...Tags: Pumpkin, Omega-3 Fatty Acid, Fish Oil (dietary supplement), Arable Farming, Diseases and Illnesses
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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: Human Body, Medical Research, American Lung Association, Health and Safety at School, Health and Safety at School
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Expanding access to health care
Gov.Martin O'Malley's administration is proposing to establish a number of health enterprise zones to address the glaring health disparities along racial and class lines that end lives prematurely and cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars a...Tags: Economic Policy, Medical Procedures and Tests, Vaccines, Hospitals and Clinics, Government Health Care
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State moves to suspend foster child placements with Hyattsville company
Maryland's second-largest foster care provider failed to track background checks, training and other requirements for its foster parents, putting the children at risk, according to state officials who are moving to suspend new placements in its homes....Tags: Companies and Corporations, Employment, Abusive Behavior, Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics
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Balto. Co. studying effects of domestic violence on children
Children often witness domestic violence, but social workers have had no standardized way to examine how they are affected by it. Now, Baltimore County's social services department has partnered with experts from the Johns Hopkins University and the...Tags: Baltimore County, Abusive Behavior, Government, Prosecution, Witnesses
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Quitting smoking is tough, but not impossible
Many people pick quitting smoking as their New Year's resolution. But if quitting smoking was easy, most smokers would have already done it. Tobacco is highly addictive and the process isn't easy, but quitting is possible for those who really are ready...Tags: Chemicals, Health Treatments, Pharmaceuticals, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body
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