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Illness at Pot Spring Elementary investigated
Baltimore County health officials are investigating why about 200 students at Pot Spring Elementary in Timonium — a third of the children there — got sick with gastrointestinal symptoms last week. The school's principal alerted school health...
Tags: Students, Timonium, Vomiting, Somerville, Teaching and Learning
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It's Lyme season [Editorial]
With some exceptions, any illness can strike anyone at any time. One of the more dangerous to emerge in recent decades is Lyme disease. Harford County, as many of us know either first-hand or because of someone we know, is not immune from the tick-borne...Tags: Allergies, Skin Rash, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Illness
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Attorney general wants warning about affect of opiates on babies
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has joined 42 other attorneys general asking the FDA to put a warning label on opiod pain killers explaining the health consequences babies face when their mothers take the drugs while pregnant. The states'...
Tags: Pain, Justice System, Food and Drug Administration, Douglas F. Gansler, Lawyers
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Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation
"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Mastectomy, Breast Cancer, Family, Celebrities
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HPV-related throat cancers multiplying
It is well known that HPV (human papillomavirus) can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well. Throat cancers caused by HPV are showing up typically in men with little or no history of smoking, said Dr. Kevin...
Tags: Vaccines, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research, Biotechnology, Throat Cancer
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Malaria, a scourge that we can defeat
Malaria is an enormous and tragic problem — that can be beat. It takes the life of a child every minute in Sub-Saharan Africa, and a million people die from malaria each year. It also stifles economic development, as malaria prevents children from...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, AIDS, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Africa
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Hot Dog: When to Leave Fido at Home
It’s super nice outside with mild temperatures, low humidity, and trees and blooms bursting to life. It’s tempting to take Fido along for a ride. But it can be surprisingly dangerous to leave your pet in the car, and few of us realize how...
Tags: Fatigue
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You don't have to suffer from constipation
Constipation hits everybody at some point. The uncomfortable condition can be caused by many things, including a bad diet and dehydration. Dr. Vaibhav A. Parekh, director of Medstar Harbor Primary Care, talks about how to prevent and treat constipation,...
Tags: Weight Loss, Health and Medical Professionals, Chemical Industry, Internists, Pharmaceuticals
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The false security of gun-control measures
Now that the way has been cleared for the U.S. Senate to vote on a bipartisan bill to toughen federal gun controls, Americans should remember that the effectiveness of government regulations has limits. Ultimately, new laws will give Americans a false...
Tags: Weaponry, Laws, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Television Industry
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Common plants can be toxic to pets
A recent post on the Lab Rescue Facebook page broke my heart: a woman wrote that her beloved dog died unexpectedly, and that an autopsy showed that her liver had been completely destroyed. The culprit? Heliotrope, a common flowering plant the woman had on...
Tags: Pets, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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High court throws out $1B fraud verdict in Exxon leak case
Maryland's highest court on Tuesday struck down the bulk of a fraud case against ExxonMobil Corp. stemming from an underground gasoline leak in Baltimore County, reversing most of $1.65 billion in judgments and dealing a stunning blow to hundreds of...
Tags: Peter G. Angelos, Justice System, Trials, Lawyers, Health Insurance Cost
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Medical advertising hurts health care
You do not have to look far to understand why U.S. health care is so expensive and uneven in quality. A recurrent offender advertises walk-in ultrasound testing of blood vessels and whatever other asymptomatic part you may choose to pay for. Worried older...Tags: Aneurysm, Osteoporosis, High Blood Pressure, Johns Hopkins University, Medical Procedures and Tests
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