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Clarksville Middle's Karen Feng a young artist to watch [Clarksville]
Clarksville Middle School sixth-grader Karen Feng is an accomplished young artist. Karen won Outstanding Interpretation of Theme in Visual Arts for Maryland in the PTA Reflections Competition. Karen is one of only three artists in all grade levels...Tags: Howard County, Google Inc., Drugs and Medicines, PTA, Clarksville
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Fifth District firefighters invite you to a country breakfast [Clarksville]
Come hungry to the Ten Oaks Ballroom from 8 a.m. to noon Feb. 17. The Fifth District Volunteer Fire Department will host a country breakfast for the community. Proceeds from the breakfasts help provide equipment for the volunteers. The cost is $9 for...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy, Lung Cancer, Clarksville, Dentistry and Dental Health
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St. Agnes Hospital offers help for sleep-related problems
While health professionals encourage people to get from seven to eight hours of sleep nightly, millions of Americans are falling well short of that mark. Many are getting just five to six hours and recent studies have shown that more than 20 percent of...Tags: Cardiologists, Obesity, Sleep Disorders, Lungs and Airways, Saint Agnes Hospital
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Bariatric surgery to cure Type 2 diabetes better understood
Days after undergoing gastric bypass surgery, Brenda Maker's diabetes was gone — her body producing enough of the hormone insulin to turn sugar into fuel.
It's a phenomenon seen in recent years by doctors who increasingly are using the operation...Tags: Linthicum, Physiology, Insulin, Diabetes, Amputation
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Clarksville: City Gives will raise funds for Women's Giving Circle
There's plenty to see and do Sept. 13. The Mall in Columbia will host City Gives, a fundraiser benefiting the Women's Giving Circle of Howard County from 5 to 8 p.m. If you're not familiar with the Giving Circle, check it out at http://www....Tags: Howard County, Ellicott City, Government Health Care, Music, Senior Health
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Residents lash out at BGE during accountability hearing
A power struggle played out for nearly three hours this week between residents of several Howard County neighborhoods dealing with chronic electrical outages and the company that provides them that electricity. About 250 people showed up Tuesday, July 24...
Tags: Howard County, David H. Moore, Ellicott City, Natural Disasters, Hurricanes
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Considering bariatric surgery? Read this first
Often, those who are very overweight have tried dieting for years before giving up in frustration. But more obese people are turning to bariatric surgery to jump-start their weight-loss programs. The surgery is low-risk but isn't for everyone. It...
Tags: Obesity, Physiology, The National (music group), Diabetes, Hormones and Metabolism
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Font Hill residents upset with BGE over chronic power issues
There have always been power blips in Font Hill, not to mention sporadic, hours-long outages.
Residents of the Ellicott City neighborhood have generally just huffed in frustration and went about their business.
Then, in August, Hurricane Irene brought...Tags: Allan H. Kittleman, Howard County, Ellicott City, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Annapolis
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The medical establishment is ill-suited to deal with America's obesity epidemic
You did a write up on HBO's documentary "The Weight of the Nation" in which you called our obesity epidemic a wake up call for America ("Salad bars take root," May 1). Nothing new here. The alarm bells have been sounding for a while now. I am an...Tags: Obesity, Recipes, Heart Failure, Diabetes, Pharmaceuticals
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There is no method to the madness of Maryland Medicaid
Gene Ransom, CEO of the Maryland State Medical Society, writes in his article to the Sun ("Don't cut services first," Aug 29) that thousands of vulnerable Marylanders stand to receive inadequate, substandard health care for years to come if the state's...Tags: Maryland, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Insulin, Martin O'Malley, Diabetes
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Is obesity grounds for taking away a child?
In a July 13 opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a pediatrician and a lawyer from Harvard suggest that child-protective services take severely overweight children away from negligent parents. I do think this question should...Tags: Overweight, American Medical Association, Allergies, Hospitals and Clinics, Weight
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Dr. Lewis B. Newberg
Baltimore Sun reporterDr. Lewis B. Newberg, a retired ear, nose and throat specialist who turned his personal battle with sleep apnea and snoring into a book in which he combined humor and practical medical advice for those similarly afflicted, died Oct. 22 of heart failure at...Tags: Edgewater, Heart Failure, General Practitioners, Fort Lauderdale, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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