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Maryland Shock Trauma seeks community consent on blood plasma study
Many patients taken to the University of Maryland's Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore cling to life, barely able to breathe, much less consent to participate in a medical trial, a reality that makes trauma research extremely difficult. With life-saving...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, University of Maryland, College Park, Medical Procedures and Tests, Blood, Trials
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Research buzz: UMBC tackling diabetes management among urban elderly
Description: The University of Maryland Baltimore County's Center for Aging Studies won a $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to explore the experiences of elderly, urban diabetes patients. The research will focus largely on how the...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Healthy Diet, Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Loyola professor helps piece resurgent O's team together
The opening scene of the movie "Moneyball" is a grainy close-up of Johnny Damon batting for the Oakland Athletics. Damon becomes the movie's pivotal point, a primary example of a player paid more than stats say he is worth. That surprised Loyola...
Tags: Loyola University Maryland, Boston Red Sox, Baseball, Thomas Ricketts, Major League Baseball
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NIH superbug outbreak a warning for local hospitals
Much of Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Jason Farley's recent research has focused on an evolving medical crisis: How to stop the spread of bacteria that have adapted immunity to most antibiotics. To stop it the medical community needs to track it. He's...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Staphylococcal Infection , Medical Procedures and Tests, University of Maryland Medical Center, Union Memorial Hospital
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Westminster Library opens pilot project for Sunday hours
Carroll County Public Library announced this week that the Westminster Library branch, 50 E. Main St., Westminster, is beginning Sunday operations, starting Oct. 7. The library will be open 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays through April 28 (closed December 23...Tags: Libraries, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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Mayor ducks responsibility in phone mess
The purchase of Voice over Internet Protocol telephones and related equipment by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration may not have been illegal. That's the kindest conclusion one can draw from a report on the matter by the city's inspector...
Tags: Bernard C. Young, George Nilson, Technology, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Companies and Corporations
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Harford County Walk to fight Alzheimer's set
The Alzheimer's Association invites the community to unite in a movement to reclaim the future for millions by participating in the Harford County Walk to End Alzheimer's on Saturday, Oct. 6, (rain or shine) at the Bel Air Equestrian Center at 608 N....Tags: Alzheimer's Association, Diseases and Illnesses, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Harford County, Medical Research
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Research buzz: Unmanned aircraft venture into hurricanes
Description: NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel Mission, also known as HS3, is exploring the massive tropical systems from high altitudes via two unmanned Global Hawk aircraft. Instruments on board the planes will collect data researchers and...Tags: Space Programs, Hurricane Leslie (2012), Natural Disasters, Tropical Storms, NASA
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Researcher aims to take guesswork out of utilities' storm preparations
If a hurricane threatens to barrel up the Chesapeake Bay in the next month, many Marylanders will watch the forecast with dread. Memories of spending days without power after Hurricane Irene and the June derecho are fresh and painful.
Utilities such as...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, New York City, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Natural Disasters, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
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With 'Gold,' Chris Cleave braces for another reversal in fortune
When the British author Chris Cleave published his debut novel, "Incendiary," he fell victim to perhaps the worst historical coincidence ever to afflict an author. The book, about a terrorist attack in a London sports stadium, was released on July 7,...
Tags: 2012 Summer Olympics, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Authors, Blood, The New York Times
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Dr. Reubin Andres, gerontologist
Dr. Reubin Andres, a retired gerontologist who challenged commonly circulated height-weight tables for the elderly and conducted diabetes research, died of complications from heart disease Sunday at his Lake Roland-area home. He was 89.
Dr. Andres...Tags: Hormones and Metabolism, Diseases and Illnesses, Washington, DC, Insulin, Southern Methodist University
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City officials outraged by emails in phone controversy
Baltimore elected officials said Friday they were outraged by an inspector general's report that found the Mayor's Office of Information Technology and a former deputy mayor withheld information from and misled city officials about a controversial project...Tags: George Nilson, Technology, Verizon Communications, Public Officials, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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