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Employees with the Columbia Bank and a knight in shining armor from Medieval Times restaurant at Arundel Mills mall went door-to-door delivering gifts of three jars of fruit preserves to residents of the Arundel Preserve community in Hanover to promote...Tags: Government, Elections, Linthicum, Economic Policy, Local Elections
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Promising therapy for 'eye stroke'
Sun reporterAt first, Christine Jablonski didn't worry about the blurry vision in her right eye. She dismissed it as a flake of morning mascara and went about her daily business in Ellicott City. But within two hours, the eye went dark. She rushed to Johns Hopkins...Tags: Pediatrics, Trials, Medical Specialization, Western Medicines, Hospitals and Clinics
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Max Planck deal could create 1,800 jobs, boost area's economy
South Florida Sun-SentinelPalm Beach County's $190 million partnership with the state to lure the biomedical research giant Max Planck Society will drive the county deeper in debt for the next 20 years but could broaden the area's economy and provide a financial boost to schools....Tags: Jupiter, Florida Atlantic University, Social Sciences, Elections, Contracts
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Patient's race may affect quality of health care
The Washington PostEvery patient-physician relationship is unique. But some research shows that a patient's race can be a particularly strong indicator of how successful some relationships are in achieving treatment goals. This was true for diabetes patients at Harvard...Tags: Medicine, Medical Specialization, Diseases, Health Treatments
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Discoveries: Positive thinking; prenatal peanuts; blood sugar after heart surgery
Power of positive thinking Men who thought they had a lower risk of dying from heart disease turned out to be right over the next 15 years, no matter what their conventional risk factors showed. The death rate for men who had the optimistic point of...Tags: Medicine, Diseases, Therapies, Health Treatments, Heart Disease
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High-Cost Funerals: Help And Alternatives Are Available
Courant Staff WriterWhen Latoya McKithan died last month, desperation piled on top of grief when her family realized she had no life insurance to pay the funeral costs. Her sister, Hazel Flowers, knew all too well how expensive funerals can get: Their mother died just eight...Tags: Society, Death and Dying, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Colleges and Universities, Religious Leaders
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Alzheimer's patients need to be engaged citizens
Jesse F. Ballenger is a historian of medicine who teaches in the Science, Technology and Society Program at Penn State University. He is the author of "Self, Senility and Alzheimer's Disease in ModernAdvocates of federal funding for Alzheimer's research have argued since the late 1970s that unless effective treatment or prevention is found, the health care system will be overwhelmed by the coming explosion of victims from the Baby Boom generation....Tags: Government Health Care, Mental Illness, Diseases, Academic Progress, Research
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Taser death ignites racial tensions
Tribune correspondentWINNFIELD, La. — At 1:28 p.m. last Jan. 17, Baron "Scooter" Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m., he was dead. What happened in the 39 minutes in between — during which Pikes was handcuffed by local police and shocked nine...Tags: Prisons, TASER International Incorporated, Western Medicines, Government, Suicide
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Public service announcements not getting message across
delthia.ricks@newsday.comBreast cancer specialists were alarmed last year when research from the National Cancer Institute revealed mammography use had dropped so sharply that doctors feared a rise in invasive cancers. Clearly, some women were not getting the message that...Tags: Diseases, Government, Drunk Driving, Civil and Public Service, Road Accidents
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Alzheimer's vaccine stops plaque but not dementia
Some doctors have long suspected that if the plaque that builds up in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease could be removed, they could be saved. But a new vaccine that did just that suggests the theory is wrong. British researchers gave 64...Tags: Mental Illness, Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease, Illnesses, Preventative Medicine
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