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Hopkins team creates device to screen for anemia
Every year, health organizations spend millions in the developing world attacking the iron-deficiency disorder known as anemia. They pay special attention to pregnant women, a population highly vulnerable to the disease.
Every year, though, 115,000 of...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Mineral Supplements, University of Oxford, Financial Aid
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Accordionists' Association encourages young players
Vince Demor walked through a hotel lobby in shorts and a T-shirt, looking like any teenager, except for the accordion around his neck, which he wore as naturally as a lawyer sports a tie. He played exercises quietly as he walked. Accordions are all...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Festive Events, Johns Hopkins University
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GlaxoSmithKline to acquire Human Genome Sciences
After spurning a hostile takeover bid from GlaxoSmithKline PLC in April, Human Genome Sciences Inc. said Monday it agreed to be bought by the biopharmaceutical giant for a more lucrative offer valued at $3.6 billion.
GlaxoSmithKline boosted its offer for...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Lupus
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Osiris Therapeutics sees uptick in biosurgery products
Columbia-based Osiris Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company developing stem cell-based treatments, beat Wall Street analysts' estimates with a reported loss of $4.3 million in the second quarter, which ended June 30. The firm, which earlier this...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Companies and Corporations
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Interview: John Powers wants to train 'biotechnicians'
Baltimore BioWorks is John Powers's third biotech company — and the one that he says he's most excited about.
The 56-year-old Ellicott City doctor built a career in biotechnology, working for the Centers for Disease Control and the National...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Abell Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Chemical Industry, Science
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Community activist returns to Lansdowne to battle cancer
Only months after he moved away to start a career in Phoenix, Ariz., longtime Lansdowne community activist Brian Bailey has returned to the area. The 27-year-old former president of the Lansdowne Improvement Association is back to receive cancer treatment...
Tags: Health Treatments, Elections, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Democratic Party
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Towson family featured in health care campaign find 'relief' in Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care initiative was a cause for great anticipation for Alicia Steinberg. In the parking lot of Brown Memorial Woodbrook Church on Thursday, the West Towson resident was waiting until the...
Tags: Health Treatments, Family, Kathleen Sebelius, Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost
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Researcher hunts for sickle cell anemia cure with gene targeting, stem cells
Halfway around the world in India, Sivaprakash Ramalingam had heard of Johns Hopkins researchers using a promising new technique for gene therapy that he hoped to integrate with stem cells to cure diseases.
After getting a doctorate in biochemistry in...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Genes and Chromosomes, Research, Science
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Prognosis good and spirits high for NFL ref who found he had cancer after injury at Ravens game
If he's doing his job, an NFL official will largely go unnoticed. He will make sure the rules are followed, of course, yet blend into the background as much as possible. Tony Corrente is anything but invisible. The longtime NFL referee learned that as...
Tags: Health Treatments, Super Bowl, Baltimore Ravens, Holidays, Cancer
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Legislators to look at drug shortages
The staff at Anne Arundel Medical Center considered canceling some surgeries on a recent weekend because the hospital was running low on a common drug used to help bring people out from under anesthesia. It is the kind of problem hospitals and doctors...
Tags: Health Treatments, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Barack Obama
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Cummings looks into prescription drug shortages
University of Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese said she was heartbroken that a chemotherapy drug used to treat her 3-year-old son, Tyler, for leukemia was in short supply and possibly unavailable.
When she discovered that some companies...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Health Treatments, Chemical Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Brenda Frese
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Towson's Will Adams beating worst enemy yet
Will Adams, freshman basketball player at Towson University, could be mad at the world about all the misfortune life dumped at his Philadelphia doorstep.
There was the woman, his birth mother, who abandoned him to a series of foster homes at 3. There was...Tags: Symptoms, Health Treatments, Medical Specialization, Fever, Diplomacy
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