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Westminster gym for the disabled specializes in small miracles
It's a sunny morning in Westminster, and the pulleys are squeaking, the weights clinking as a half-dozen members of a small gym give the equipment a workout. Bouncy music comes though a stereo's speakers. A trainer encourages a client on a treadmill....
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Health Treatments, Mount Airy, Physical Disabilities, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Colonial Players offers thought-provoking production of 'Sunlight'
Colonial Players' second offering of its 64th season is Sharr White's 2009 award-winning play "Sunlight." This enduring all-volunteer company's bold choice of a topical drama examining controversial issues is laudable, although its timing, when many...
Tags: Ethics, Annapolis, Criminal Laws, Laws, Sprague
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Kyle Kauffman lives out his dream
For Kyle Kauffman, cerebral palsy is a hurdle, not a wall. He has a high school diploma, a Facebook account and a dorm room at Stevenson, where he majors in public history and manages the men's soccer team. "Soccer is probably the most beautiful sport...
Tags: Students, Barack Obama, Teaching and Learning, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Team manager Kauffman gets a real kick out of playing for Stevenson men's soccer
At game's end, Kyle Kauffman scooped up the soccer ball at his feet at midfield, trotted over to the grandstand and, with a stage actor's aplomb, bowed to the crowd. Five hundred people, including Kauffman's parents, stood and cheered the college senior,...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Bits & Pieces: EYO baseball's Hobbs is a natural team player
There is so much that we can learn from children who just want to belong. I illustrate my point by bringing up the story of Ryan Hobbs. Ryan is in his third year of playing baseball with the Elkridge Youth Organization (EYO). He was born with cerebral...Tags: Baseball, Cricket
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Local Paralympic swimmers headed to London
Loyola University Maryland swimming coach Brian Loeffler said he "opened the door" for Becca Meyers, a Loyola Blakefield Aquatics member, and North Baltimore Aquatic Club's Ian Silverman to join the U.S. team in the Paralympic Games in London beginning...
Tags: Botox Injections, Loyola University Chicago, Taiwan, YMCA, World War II (1939-1945)
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'Ultimate sleepover party' for patients and siblings
The scene at Hashawha Environmental Center in Westminster Friday evening was filled with the friendly chaos typical of the start of summer camp. Parents unloaded gear and gave last-minute instructions. Ubiquitous counselors welcomed visitors and ushered...Tags: Allergies, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Genes and Chromosomes, Carroll County (Maryland), Cancer
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Jury awards Glen Burnie family $21 million in Harbor Hospital medical case
For the second time this summer, a local family has been awarded a huge sum of money by a Baltimore jury after claiming that negligent care by a local hospital caused their child to be born with a disability. A jury Tuesday awarded $21 million to a...Tags: Pikesville, Lawyers, Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Justice System
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Doctors, hospitals concerned about hefty malpractice awards
Maryland's medical community is concerned about the potential fallout from two multimillion-dollar malpractice judgments awarded by Baltimore juries to families who blamed local hospitals where their babies were delivered for their children's...Tags: Lawyers, Health and Medical Professionals, Obstetrics, General Practitioners, Harbor Hospital
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For ex-Terp Walt Williams, an uphill battle
Walt Williams isn't one to shy away from a challenge. The former NBA veteran, after all, is perhaps best known for playing under the most trying circumstances in the history of Maryland basketball. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the Terps were...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Maryland Terrapins, Charity, Len Bias, Walt Williams
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Aphasia affects estimated 1 million people
Earlier this month a Texas Rangers sportscaster went from calling live highlights of a baseball game to talking about a botched robbery. The sportscaster's incoherent switch confused listeners, but doctors saw the symptoms of aphasia, a disease not...Tags: Physical Conditions, Diseases and Illnesses, Parkinson's Disease, Learning Disability, Muscular Dystrophy
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Jury awards Waverly family $55 million in Hopkins malpractice case
After hours of labor, Enso Martinez cried as his wife, Rebecca Fielding, was carried from their Waverly home on a stretcher en route to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Fielding, who had wanted to deliver her baby at home with the help of a midwife, assured her...Tags: Lawyers, Parkinson's Disease, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Malpractice, Litigation
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