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Eileen M. O'Hagan, advocate
Eileen M. O'Hagan, a homemaker and advocate for children with cleft lips and cleft palates, died of cancer May 18 at her Cockeysville home. She was 73.
Born Eileen Gayo in Baltimore and raised on Eierman Avenue, she attended the Shrine of the Little...Tags: Breast Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Christianity, Cleft Lip and Palate
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A growing thirst in Damascus
Stop by the Red Rooster, a 10-seat joint just off Main Street in this rural community an hour west of Baltimore, and you can order a burger, some barbecue or the fried chicken that some locals claim is the best on the East Coast. But don't bother...
Tags: Damascus (Syria), Kevin Miller, Business, Kensington, Referenda
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Tatyana McFadden: Howard County's 'Lady Velocity'
World-class track athlete Tatyana McFadden is not a flashy person. Soft-spoken with a thin face, dark brown eyes and a deceptively muscular frame, she is not the type to speak of her accomplishments without some prompting. But when she does talk about her...
Tags: BP Plc, Spina Bifida, College Sports, Track and Field, Chicago Marathon
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Eggs and nutrition
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog Picture of Health (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth), which is reprinted here. This week, Elaine Pelc weighs in on eggs....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Calcium, Nutrition, Foods and Beverages, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Pregnancy not as easy for older women as it may seem
Middle-aged Hollywood stars and their newborns may make it seem like a fountain of youth has been discovered for women's fertility. But researchers at Yale University School of Medicine say these stars may be giving women the wrong perception. Many...Tags: Yale University, Medical Research, Biotechnology, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Medical Specialization
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Americans mostly getting enough nutrients
Americans have good levels of many important vitamins in their bodies, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There still are some stark disparities, such as a 31 percent vitamin D deficiency in African...
Tags: Nutrition, Health Treatments, Cancer, Vitamin D, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Emiline D. Lazzeri, survivor of rheumatic fever
Emiline D. Lazzeri, a Baltimore County native who as a child lived for a year in a glass-encased room at Johns Hopkins Hospital while being treated for rheumatic fever, died of congestive heart failure March 14 at her home in Largo, Fla.
She was 80....Tags: Baltimore County, Hospitals and Clinics, Korean War (1950-1953), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bones and Joints
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Plan B is overruled
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' decision this week to overrule the Food and Drug Administration commissioner and refuse to authorize girls under age 17 to have over-the-counter access to the emergency contraceptive pill known as...Tags: Barack Obama, Abortion Issue, Plan B (drug), Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research
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Compass Academy to give special needs students direction
When the Norbel School for special needs students closed in June, it left school admissions director Frank Pugliese, like the school's the teachers and staff, unemployed.
But Pugliese, who had been at the school for 15 years, didn't stop working.
In...Tags: Catonsville, Spina Bifida, Teaching and Learning, ADHD, Perry Hall
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Tougher pesticide regulation critical to health of the bay
Senator Ben Cardin's fight to protect EPA authority over pollution discharge permits controlling many of the pesticides in our waterways ("Cardin Leads Fight Over Pesticides," July 3) is critical to the health of the Chesapeake Bay and to all of us who...Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Physical Conditions, Bodies of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Children's Health
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Health disparities found for Baltimore Latinos
Many Latinos in Baltimore lack medical coverage, which contributes to problems such as fewer mothers getting prenatal care, according to a new report that takes the first comprehensive look at the group's health.
The report, released Thursday by the city...Tags: Minority Groups, Hospitals and Clinics, Highlandtown, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Family
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On the job training for elected officials can be tough, and costly
Often, the best ideas for a column come from readers. One reader recently objected to a column about Republicans vs. Democrats and said the real issue for voters is, instead, the people vs. elected officials of both parties. He wanted to throw all the...Tags: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Elections, Physical Conditions, Government
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