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'Race for the Cure' participants hope for win over cancer
As the sun rose Sunday on the 19th Komen Maryland Race for the Cure, it illuminated a makeshift city nearly the size of Annapolis, all decked out in shades of pink ranging from the palest pastel to the hottest hue.
And for one day, everyone looked...Tags: Chemotherapy, Music, Diseases and Illnesses, Annapolis, Health Treatments
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Family takes case of Md. man imprisoned in Cuba to public
– Judy Gross stood outside Cuba's diplomatic mission to the United States, microphone in hand, and described her family's Thanksgiving.
"There was once again an empty seat for Alan," she told sign-wielding supporters Monday in front of the Cuban...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Arthritis, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Bill Richardson, Lung Cancer
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From Sun Magazine: Botox 2.0
When Sandy Rosenblatt looked in the mirror, the striking brunette could see nothing but one big flaw — her eyes, which were sunken and seemed a little dark. So at 34 she had a plastic surgeon smooth them over. While she was there, she decided to...Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, Health and Medical Professionals, Plastic Surgery, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Breast Augmentation
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Loch Raven skeet and trap fundraiser takes aim at cancer
Guns were firing rapidly this past weekend at the Loch Raven Skeet and Trap Center. Shooters took aim at a small flying disc of clay known as skeet, but the real target was breast cancer.
For some, it might seem unusual that a group of largely male...Tags: Physical Therapists, Diseases and Illnesses, Lymphatic System, File Sharing, Breast Cancer
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Southern Md. woman to run marathon as a 'Global Hero'
Kathleen Hammett smiled and her eyes became glassy as she watched her daughter trying to spell out the letters of her name on a piece of paper.
"She's about to turn 4," Hammett said.
It's not a miracle that Clara, a cheery girl with curly blonde hair...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Hemorrhaging, Blood, Breast Cancer, Washington Hospital Center
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Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and cocaine addiction
Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.
Famous for the speed and virtuosity of his...Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Diseases and Illnesses, Physiology, History (tv network), Colleges and Universities
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'Leisha's Girls' come together
Anita is dead.
The news, in the first week of August, jolts this loose-knit community of women participating in a trial of an experimental breast cancer vaccine. Just a year ago their friend had triumphantly shared that she was cancer-free, practically...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Parkville
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Elusive cure
In a darkened slice of a convention center ballroom, Dr. Leisha Emens takes her place in front of hundreds gathered to hear about her latest research.
The Johns Hopkins oncologist doesn't look particularly comfortable in the spotlight. This is no way...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Maryland, Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Cancer
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It's not working
The elevator doors open on the fifth floor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Peggy Murphy tentatively steps out, as if crossing a threshold in the struggle to stay ahead of her breast cancer. Last fall, she had been accepted into Dr. Leisha Emens' clinical...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Bones and Joints, Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Cancer
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How medical errors took a little girl's life
Sun StaffFirst of two parts During those frightening first days in the hospital, Sorrel King came to trust the doctors and nurses looking after her 18-month- old daughter. Hooked up to tubes and machines, sterile dressings covering her burns, Josie looked nothing...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Duke University, Pharmaceuticals, Family, Arts
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'My True Self'
Sun StaffThere is something a little unsettling about laying eyes on Vicki Gray for the first time. Her shoulders look too broad, her hands too thick. When she walks, her lanky arms move in prim arcs, as though limbs that swung loosely for a lifetime had been...Tags: Illnesses, Republican Party, Colleges and Universities, Environmental Politics, Maryland
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Veteran Broward detention deputy dies at 39
A longtime Broward Sheriff's Office employee who was recently recognized for her courageous spirit died of cancer Monday. Joslyn Ruback, 39, of Boynton Beach, joined the agency in 2000 and worked as a detention deputy. Mrs. Ruback did not want to be...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Breast Cancer, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Lauderhill
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