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Baltimore nursing home closes, displaces nearly 70 residents
Nearly 70 elderly patients and vulnerable adults must find new homes because of the planned closure of Harborside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Baltimore, a sprawling facility with numerous fire hazards uncovered in a recent state inspection....
Tags: Nursing Homes, Multiple Sclerosis, Genesis HealthCare Corporation, Companies and Corporations, Health Insurance
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Early menopause increases risk of stroke
Women who enter menopause before their 46th birthday are twice as likely to suffer a stroke or coronary heart disease, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. The risk from early menopause is true no matter the ethnic or racial background of a woman, the...Tags: Physical Conditions, Drugs and Medicines, Internal Medicine, Menopause, Internists
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Baltimore wants your mobile app to help fight heart disease
Baltimore city is looking for someone to develop a mobile app that helps people reduce their risk of heart disease. The city is one of four chosen by the theU.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesto take part in a contest dubbed The Million...
Tags: Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease
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Golf equipment tester talks technology, trends and the belly putter
Professional golfers are driving the ball 20 yards farther since 1996. Recreational golfers have increased their drives by 13 yards in the same time frame. The average men's handicap has dropped two strokes in the past 20 years, with women's handicaps...Tags: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Clubs and Associations, Golf, Tiger Woods, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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VA expanding Loch Raven campus
The Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System is expanding its Loch Raven complex with a long-term care center and an exercise and robotics center that will allow research into rehabilitation for wounded and aging veterans. The $13 million project...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Conditions, Veterans Affairs
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Insurance more predictive of death after heart attack than race
Health insurance was a better predictor of survival from health attacks and strokes than race, according to Johns Hopkins researchers who looked at health outcomes in some Maryland hospitals. Specifically, those who did not have coverage were more likely...Tags: Heart Attack, Death, Internal Medicine, Health Insurance, Health and Medical Professionals
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Pikesville man who received tainted steroid joins push for drug oversight reform
— Pikesville resident Gerald Cohen was an active 71-year-old retiree, filling his free time with gardening, volunteering and enjoying the company of his grandchildren despite persistent back pain — until he sought relief for it.
Treated...Tags: Pikesville, Edward J Markey, Meningitis, Back Pain, Steroids
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Doris E. Davies, kindergarten teacher and supervisor
Doris E. Davies, a retired Baltimore County kindergarten teacher and supervisor, died Oct. 28 of heart failure at the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville. She was 96.
Mrs. Davies also taught for years in Baltimore City and "loved young...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Music, Teachers, Baltimore County, Heart Failure
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Could Dylan Bundy come up to Baltimore this year?
The Baltimore SunThe Orioles have been exceptionally cautious with top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy in his first professional year, keeping him in the South Atlantic League when he obviously was too advanced for the level and not allowing him to throw more than five...Tags: Dylan Bundy, Zach Britton, Brian Matusz, Xavier Avery, Hospitals and Clinics
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Meningitis outbreak brings attention to treatment of back pain
Naomi Morgan reached her limit when her doctor recommended a third surgery for chronic back pain. Tired of being cut open only to have the pain return, Morgan, a 65-year-old nursing assistant, began looking for a less invasive and hopefully more...
Tags: Glen Burnie, Meningitis, Health and Medical Professionals, Nursing, Physical Therapists
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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, Alzheimer's Disease, High Blood Pressure, Johns Hopkins University, Muscular Dystrophy
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Dr. Bernard 'Bernie' Kapiloff, surgeon
Dr. Bernard "Bernie" Kapiloff, a retired plastic surgeon who had also been the longtime publisher of the Montgomery County Sentinel as well as a civil rights activist and philanthropist, died Oct. 10 from complications of a stroke at Roland Park Place....Tags: Good Samaritan Hospital (Baltimore), U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights, Judaism, Health and Medical Professionals
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