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Bacteria that caused flesh-eating infection more common than believed
The story of a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting a flesh-eating disease has prompted a microbiologist with the Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System to speak out about the infection.
Aimee Copeland lost most of her left leg after the...Tags: Water, Hospitals and Clinics, Staphylococcal Infection , Rodney Dangerfield, Penicillin (drug)
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Gold Star Mothers continue the service of their fallen children
BETHESDA — A mother arrives at the Red Cross office at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on a mission for her son, a 23-year-old soldier and double amputee. He needs a back scratcher. With her bright eyes and wide smile, volunteer Janice...
Tags: Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Amputation, Iraq, Fort Meade (military base)
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Fort Howard redevelopment plans moving forward
A decade after the Department of Veterans Affairs closed its hospital at Fort Howard, most of the buildings at the sprawling Baltimore County waterfront property are boarded up. A big rusty pole in front of the old facility has no flag.
But there are...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, John A. Olszewski, Sr., Dundalk, World War II (1939-1945), Patapsco
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Treating the wounds of military sexual trauma
Machele Fredericks had to face her attacker every day.
She was in the Air Force. He was a fellow service member on the base. And he said that if she told anyone what he'd done, he'd kill her.
"You didn't hear much of people getting raped in the military...Tags: Recreational Substance Use, Hospitals and Clinics, Substance Abuse, Women's Health, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Elaine Karp-Gelernter, psychologist
Elaine Karp-Gelernter, a retired Veterans Affairs psychologist who was also a textile artist, died of complications from pneumonia March 20 at Sinai Hospital. The Mount Washington resident was 78.
She was the daughter of Polish immigrants who ran a...Tags: Philosophy, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Maryland Medical School, Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Colleges and Universities
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Bartlett, Van Hollen taking service members to State of the Union speech
Reps. Roscoe G. Bartlett and Chris Van Hollen are planning to take service members past and present to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address Tuesday evening.
Bartlett, a Western Maryland Republican, and Van Hollen, a Montgomery County...Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Barack Obama, Unions, Defense, Unions
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Balto. Co. to give hiring preference to returning veterans
Baltimore County will begin giving priority to veterans when making local government hiring decisions, officials announced Tuesday, a policy focused particularly on those returning from conflicts overseas. County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced the...Tags: Employment, Substance Abuse, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Employment Opportunities, Defense
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Police sergeant who killed man sues department
The gun battle raged in three different spots near the old Murphy Homes high-rise in West Baltimore, ending on a cold February day with the death of a 20-year-old man in a hail of gunfire from four city police officers.
Four years later, one of the...Tags: Murder, Lawyers, Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics, Trials
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APG joins University of Delaware in effort to improve care for wounded warriors, civilians
The Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and the University of Delaware have entered into a cooperative research and development agreement to collaborate on an orthopedic rehabilitation project that will improve rehabilitative care for wounded...Tags: Science, Armed Conflicts, National Institutes of Health, Colleges and Universities, Research
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Project seeks 1 million veterans to give blood, DNA for disease research
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for a battle it's waging at home — against disease.
Actually, more than a few are needed. Officials overseeing health care for the nation's veterans are...Tags: Human Body, High Blood Pressure, Research, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Behavioral Conditions
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Glyndon couple flies wounded warrior home
Like any prospective son-in-law, Sgt. Michael Frazier admitted to jitters about meeting his fiancee's father for the first time. Unlike most, the 29-year-old Marine flew to Miami Wednesday on a private jet with his own cheering section.
"Not to worry...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Amputation, Lotteries, Companies and Corporations, Companies and Corporations
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Mortgage settlement has shortcomings, critics say
As the federal government and 49 states signed a landmark mortgage relief settlement Thursday, housing advocates and others pointed to shortcomings and raised questions about how the $25 billion plan would be able to provide relief to nearly 2 million...Tags: Lawyers, Trials, Annapolis, Elijah E. Cummings, Real Estate
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