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Health Enterprise Zone legislation passes
A program to improve healthcare in minority areas and reduce health disparities was approved by the General Assembly over the weekend. The pilot program, which now goes to Gov. Martin O’Malley for his signature, would offer tax breaks and other...Tags: Diabetes, Executive Branch, Heart Failure, Asthma, Government
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Free screenings at New Life Christian Center's Community Health Fair
New Life Christian Center, 9800 Mallard Drive, in South Laurel, will hold a free Community Health Fair on Saturday, April 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair will offer free screenings for hypertension, glucose and cholesterol; nutrition advice on...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diabetes, Christianity
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Large doses of vitamin C lowers blood pressure, research finds
Large doses of Vitamin C may moderately reduce blood pressure, Johns Hopkins researchers have found. But the scientists don't recommend people start taking large amounts of the vitamin. Researchers led by Dr. Edgar "Pete" R. Miller, an associate...
Tags: Science, Stroke, Heart Disease, Vitamin C, Physiology
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New web portal provides county by county health data
Want to know how many people have asthma or diabetes in the county where you live? A new state web portal was recently launched that provides this and other health data for every county in Maryland. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene...Tags: Diabetes, E-Commerce Industry, Baltimore County, Substance Abuse, Asthma
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FDA approves new drug for erectile dysfunction
Men now have a new option to treat erectile dysfunction. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the new drug Stendra to treat the illness that causes problems in the sex lives of 30 million men. It is the first erectile dysfunction drug in a...Tags: Jack Nicholson, Food and Drug Administration, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Physical Conditions
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Know the warning signs of heart attack and stroke
February is American Heart Month. I couldn't let this month go by without researching and writing about heart disease. The warning signs of heart attack and stroke always bear repeating. The first paragraph of the Presidential Proclamation for American...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Mayo Clinic, Behavioral Conditions, Chemical Industry
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The power of sleep
Are you tired, run-down, listless? The answer to your problem is probably not in a little brown bottle. It could be as simple as a good night’s sleep. But for 45 million Americans, that’s an elusive dream. Even worse, sleep deprivation,...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Conditions, Johns Hopkins University, Chemical Industry
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DASH diet named most effective
Now that the new year has started, lots of folks -- including me -- are trying to shed the pounds that accumulated over the holiday season. All those cakes and candies have a way of gathering around my waist each December, requiring a burn-off in...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Diets and Dieting, DASH diet
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Morris Tischler, who invented an early transistorized pacemaker, dies
Morris Tischler, a retired science teacher who invented a 1950s transistorized cardiac pacemaker, died of respiratory failure March 9 at his Pikesville home. He was 89.
He was born in Newark, N.J., but when his father's real estate business failed in the...Tags: Electronics, Mayo Clinic, Pikesville, White House, Johns Hopkins University
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Tobacco sales compliance The health department's Learn to Live program offers to retailers a tobacco sales compliance kit. The kit includes a training guide that explains Maryland's tobacco laws. It's illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Colon Cancer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccines, Breastfeeding
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Tobacco, smoked or smokeless, still a health concern
In response to the recent letter defending smokeless tobacco use ("All tobacco products are not equally harmful," Jan. 24), the risk of tobacco trumps all others. Fifty cigarettes a day increases the risk of end-stage lung disease and lung cancer 150-...Tags: Heart Attack, Lung Cancer, Human Body, Human Body, Respiratory Disease
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Pomegranates: The crown jewel of fruits
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). This week, Karen Kolowski weighs in on pomegranates.
The pomegranate...Tags: Blood, Breast Cancer, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Potassium (dietary supplement)
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