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Three companies win $100,000 prizes in Md. start-up contest
A pharmaceutical company, a corporate-data analytics firm and a lighting company learned Monday night that they won the top prizes at the state's inaugural competition for start-up firms — $100,000 each. The InvestMaryland Challenge drew entries...
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Howard County health briefs
Wellness classes Howard County General Hospital will offer the following wellness classes in March. Classes will be held at the HCGH Wellness Center, 10710 Charter Drive, Suite 100, Columbia unless otherwise listed. Register in advance online at http://...Tags: Bipolar Disorder, Loyola University Chicago, Howard County, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, American Cancer Society
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89 Md. facilities bought drugs from firm linked to meningitis outbreak
The federal Food and Drug Administration identified 89 medical facilities in Maryland that bought drugs from the Massachusetts manufacturer being investigated for a national fungal meningitis outbreak. The facilities are among more than 3,000 in numerous...
Tags: Aberdeen, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Procedures and Tests, Towson
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$2 million prize announced for cure for blindness by 2020
Singer Art Garfunkel, a real estate magnate and an investor are putting $2 million in gold bullion on the line to inspire researchers to cure blindness by 2020, establishing through Johns Hopkins Medicine one of the world's largest prizes for a scientific...Tags: Columbia University, Physical Conditions, Nobel Prize Awards, Timonium, Art Garfunkel
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E. Carey Kenney, McDonogh School art teacher
E. Carey Kenney, a noted Pikesville artist who headed the art department at McDonogh School for more than three decades and whose oils and watercolors were inspired by the Owings Mills campus' rolling hills and fields, died Thursday of pneumonia at...Tags: Norman Rockwell, World War II (1939-1945), Pikesville, Baltimore Museum of Art, Eleanor Roosevelt
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Both eye and vision care should be insured
Marylanders are extremely fortunate to have some of the nation's finest health care resources readily available within our borders. As Vincent DeMarco points out in his recent commentary ("Health exchanges benefit Md. families," Feb. 16), we also lead the...Tags: Glaucoma, Human Body, Eyes and Vision, Cataracts
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Seeing more than just blurred vision in your eye exam
When people come to the Reisterstown office of Drs. Eickhoff & Rowe for eye exams, the optometrists do more than simply ask which line of letters they can read on the eye chart.
Like other eye doctors, James Eickhoff starts with a "complete case history,...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Health and Medical Professionals, Health and Safety at Work, Medical Research, Heart Disease
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Ruth L. Thomas, philanthropist
Ruth L. Thomas, whose philanthropic interests ranged from medical and educational institutions to helping newly arrived immigrants, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke at Springhouse Assisted-Living in Pikesville.
Mrs. Thomas would have...Tags: Immigration, World War II (1939-1945), Leonard Bernstein, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Pikesville
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Verizon strike slows phone line repairs
It's been five days since 85-year-old Odra Pickeral has had phone service in her residence. Macular degeneration makes seeing a keypad tough, and her home's phone is programmed for frequently dialed numbers. Pickeral is one of more than 100 residents...Tags: Maryland, Baltimore County, Physical Conditions, Howard County, Companies and Corporations
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Alice C. Jones, watercolorist, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterAlice C. Jones, a noted watercolorist and former Hampton resident, died Aug. 19 from heart failure at her home in Delray Beach, Fla. She was 95. The daughter of a farmer and an educator, the former Alice Fulton was born in West Lebanon, Pa., and...Tags: Credit and Debt, Fine Arts, Columbia University, Baltimore County, Physical Conditions
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Navy veteran recalled his World War II experiences
Whenever David R. Owen answered the phone, it was always with a crisp and enthusiastic "Bridge," no doubt a holdover from his World War II days when he was an executive officer and navigator serving aboard the destroyer USS Ordronaux. Owen, who died last...Tags: Defense, Germany, Firearms, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Health and Medical Professionals
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Regeneron, Sanofi asthma drug seen as potential game changer
Reuters(Reuters) - A new type of asthma drug meant to attack the underlying causes of the respiratory disease slashed episodes by 87 percent in a mid-stage trial, making it a potential game changer for patients with moderate to severe disease, researchers said...Tags: Placebo, Respiratory Disease, Physical Conditions, Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry
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