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Rip your kids away from cell phones and tablets and make them play outside. That’s the message behind two new studies that link children’s screen time to nearsightedness, and more seriously, to a dozen kinds of cancer. But doctors warn not to panic and ditch your child’s devices just yet.

The One Voice program, started in 2011 under a grant, at the University of Maryland's St. Joseph Medical Center's Cancer Institute offers diagnostic and referral services in a comfortable setting for uninsured women who often didn't seek treatment.

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month. Here are tips on preventing cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer screenings, called Pap tests, can actually prevent cancer by finding abnormal cells before they become cancer, says the Harford County Health Department in urging all women 21 and older to get tested annually.

Patients with breast cancer often find themselves dealing with financial hardship as they worry about their health.

Are you a woman? Are you getting older? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you are at risk for breast cancer!

If a woman has insurance that will not pay for all of the breast cancer tests she needs or if she ha sno health insurance at all, she may be eligible for screening and other assistance through the H

Mary P. "Patsy" Herman, a longtime nurse whose career spanned more than 50 years, died Aug. 10 from uterine cancer at her Lake Walker home, She was 81.

Aging in place reverberates through the housing market, contributing to historically low inventory of homes for sale.

One of the best tools available to reduce breast cancer deaths is the screening mammogram. The Harford County Health Department urges women age 40 and over to make time for themselves and make a screening mammogram appointment.

In July 2015, BCCP began offering Patient Navigation services to women who meet program eligibility criteria, but have Medical Assistance, private insurance, or Medicare Part B that fully pays for breast and cervical cancer screening services.

Tuesday is World Spay Day and a good time to think about spaying and neutering your pets

An increasing number of women are undergoing minimum invasive surgery to treat early stages of uterine cancer, but new research by Johns Hopkins Medicine found that there are large racial and economic disparities to who is getting these procedures.

Taking a look at each month and what cancers are commemorated then

Newly released U.S. Census Bureau Data reports approximately 90 percent of Marylanders, as of 2014, are insured through private or public insurance sources. Unfortunately, many who have coverage do not take advantage of regular preventative health screenings which are offered at no additional cost.

Kelly Gray, a registered nurse whose career at Johns Hopkins Hospital spanned more than three decades, died Sept. 27 of metastatic uterine cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 56.

October marks the 31st anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness month. While America joins together in the prominently display of "pink" everywhere and on nearly every imaginable item, the Harford County Health Department urges all women to take advantage of health care benefits and to be screened for breast cancer.

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month

Ellen S. Dierkes, who taught fifth-grade at Garrison Forest School and was a talented flower arranger, died Frida at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of melanoma and uterine cancer. The North Baltimore resident was 58.

Breast cancer gets a lot of attention ¿ and not just during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There¿s a good reason for that, as any of the quarter-million American women diagnosed with breast cancer each year will tell you. But breast cancer isn¿t the only serious health risk women should be aware of, according to county health professionals.

Cigarette Restitution Fund Cancer Program Coordinator Susan Twigg, a registered nurse, and Breast and Cervical Cancer Program Coordinator Wendy Richard, also a nurse, of the Harford County Health Department encourage women to discuss with their doctors their risk and appropriate breast cancer screening. Furthermore, the two wish to send a loud, clear message to men and women alike, to remind their mothers, sisters, wives, daughters and any women they love how important it is for them to be

More than 7,000 people turned out for the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Baltimore. Some signed up for a new prevention study as a way of making a long-term commitment to the cause.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and there will be plenty of reminders, activities and educational opportunities throughout Harford County.

When I was in college, about 20 years ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was 72 years old. The lump was found during a mammogram, a followup to one six months earlier, which obviously showed something doctors wanted to watch.

Baltimore's famous Henn quadruplets, photographed weeks before they left St. Agnes Hospital in October 1947, were already veterans of the international media spotlight.

Retired Baltimore gynecologist whose specialty was female urology

Longtime Maryland horse owner and breeder Sondra Bender dies