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Vaccine policy should not be one size fits all
Rathi Asaithambi's April 11 op-ed advocating a federally mandatory vaccination policy with no exemptions ("Time to get tough on vaccine refusal") is based on straw man arguments and ignorance of documented adverse effects of vaccines. There is no "anti...Tags: Immunization, CBS Corp., National Institutes of Health, Annapolis, Preventative Medicine
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Harford rabies vaccination clinics April 29 and May 6
The Harford County Health Department has announced the schedule for its annual sponsorship of rabies vaccination clinics for dogs, cats and ferrets that are 3 months old or older. Dates for this year's clinics are Sunday, April 29, and Sunday, May 6, 2-4...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Havre de Grace, Pets, Harford County, Federal Hill
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
World TB Day The Department of Health observes World TB Day March 24 with a display in the lobby of the Health Services Building, 3 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis. Tuberculosis, a disease caused by bacteria, is transmitted through the air, usually by...Tags: Glen Burnie, Human Body, Communicable Diseases, Whooping Cough, Breastfeeding
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After slow start, flu season ramps up in Maryland
It's nearly spring, temperatures in the 70s, yet the flu waited until now to ramp up in Maryland, killing three members of a Calvert County family.
Usually, flu season strikes earlier. By this time last year, the flu had been widespread and had already...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Staphylococcal Infection , Flu, Swine Flu, MRSA
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Four animals rescued from Columbia home up for adoption
The four animals rescued alive from a house where 40 others were found dead are now available for adoption.
The two cats, gerbil and bearded dragon lizard are at the Howard County Animal Control and Adoption Center, on Davis Road in Columbia.
They...Tags: Cat (animal)
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Expanding access to health care
Gov.Martin O'Malley's administration is proposing to establish a number of health enterprise zones to address the glaring health disparities along racial and class lines that end lives prematurely and cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars a...Tags: Government Health Care, Hospitals and Clinics, Asthma, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hollins Market
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Dr. Fray F. Marshall
Dr. Fray Francis Marshall, a urologist and former Johns Hopkins professor who developed surgical technique for the treatment of kidney cancer, died of cancer Dec. 2 at the Atlanta Hospice. He was 67 and had lived in Ruxton before moving to Georgia in...Tags: Genetic Engineering, Diseases and Illnesses, The Rolling Stones (music group), College Sports, James Buchanan
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Calvert County family members all had the flu
State health officials say today that lab tests confirm all four members of a Calvert County family striken with a severe respiratory illness in recent weeks had the H3N2 strain of influenza A, a strain of the flu that has been going around this season....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Staphylococcal Infection , Flu, Lab Tests, Swine Flu
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Advisory panel calls for end to most experiments on chimpanzees
Medical experiments on chimpanzees are largely unnecessary and should be rare, concluded a report released Thursday from special panel of the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Science.
The authors did not recommend an outright ban,...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Michigan State University, National Institutes of Health, Civil Rights, Hepatitis C
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Science and censorship
Albert Einstein once said the reason he was able to accomplish so much was because he had "stood on the shoulders of giants" like Newton and Galileo. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist's remark was a reminder how much scientists depend on discoveries...Tags: Terrorism, Human Body, Defense, Government, Bird Flu
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Curbing chimpanzee research
Dogs may be a man's best friend, but on the great evolutionary chain, chimpanzees are humanity's closest relatives in the animal world. Chimps are so much like us physically, emotionally and socially that for decades researchers routinely used them as...Tags: National Institutes of Health, European Union, Preventative Medicine, Ethics, Medical Procedures and Tests
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