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Angelina Jolie among growing number of women choosing mastectomy before cancer
Actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy rather than risk developing breast cancer hit close to home for Melissa DeSantis, a Bel Air mother of three children. As DeSantis read about Jolie's experience, she began to feel a sense of...
Tags: Family, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Ovarian Cancer, Franklin Square Medical Center, The New York Times
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Celebrating 35 years, Laurel Regional Hospital plans changes
Beltsville native Pat Penkala doesn't remember much about May 4, 1978, her first day as an employee at Greater Laurel Beltsville Hospital and just three days after the hospital admitted its first patient. "I was young, the hospital was quiet," Penkala...
Tags: House Building, Ceremonies, Medical Procedures and Tests, Prince George's County, Board of Directors
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Common sense on Plan B
Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by...
Tags: Jay Carney, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Food and Drug Administration, Plan B (drug), Justice System
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Fort Meade VA Outpatient clinic advances effort to serve women veterans
When retired Master Sgt. Sheryl A. Webb left the U.S. Army in 1997, she was scarcely aware of services that U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals offered specifically for women. That was well before women became the fastest growing demographic group...
Tags: Infertility, Osteoporosis, Martin Garcia, Internists, Mammogram
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Lansdowne High to host community health and safety fair
Ever wonder how to do Zumba or eat healthier or what the proper fire safety procedures are? To answer those questions — and many others — Lansdowne High School is hosting its seventh annual Community Health and Safety Information Fair,...Tags: Business, Medical Procedures and Tests, Family, High Schools, Health and Safety at School
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Federal government cuts travel costs; scientists warn of collaboration lost
Florence P. Haseltine knows the power of scientists meeting face to face. The former researcher at the National Institutes of Health notes a list of milestones achieved through networking and collaboration at conferences, such as the deliberations that...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Science
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Columbia Flier opinion pages didn't include pro-choice response to abortion column [Letter]
I was frankly "flabbergasted" (and I haven't used that word in a long time!) when I viewed the opinion pages of the March 7 Columbia Flier. I counted nine letters in support of Ms. Maria Santo's extremely anti-abortion letter which appeared in the Feb. 28...Tags: Abortion
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
VA outpatient clinic The Department of Veterans Affairs has opened a new 13,300-square-foot facility to serve veterans in Anne Arundel and Howard counties. The clinic is located at 2479 Fifth St. adjacent to the Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center at Fort...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Disease Prevention, Diets and Dieting, Family, Suboxone (drug)
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Trueheart returns to City Hall after judge lifts ban
A judge on Wednesday lifted a ban prohibiting political activist Kim A. Trueheart from entering City Hall — and she promptly returned to the building, where she attended the mayor's news conference. At a District Court hearing Wednesday morning,...Tags: Annapolis, Government, Justice System, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Police Arrests
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Safe, legal abortion for 40 years
Forty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in every state in its historic Roe v. Wade decision. It affirmed that the constitutionally protected right to privacy includes every woman's ability to make her own personal medical...
Tags: Abortion, U.S. Supreme Court, Family, Elections, Planned Parenthood
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MedStar plans to open medical facility near proposed Bel Air Walmart site
Walmart is not the only business itching to get into the corner of Plumtree Road and Route 924 south of Bel Air. MedStar Health announced Monday plans to build a 100,000-square-foot healthcare facility on a parcel behind Walgreens and Sonic, at the east...
Tags: MedStar Health, Union Memorial Hospital, Marketing, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Health and Safety at School
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Lois G. Caplan, library supervisor
Lois G. Caplan, a retired library supervisor and film buff, died Dec. 25 of cancer at her Arnold home. She was 71.
A daughter of dungaree manufacturers, the former Lois Gloria Simons was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1960 from...Tags: Anne Arundel Community College, Charles Theatre, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Annapolis, Pikesville
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