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Ray Ciccarelli, a 1989 graduate from Mt. Hebron High School in Ellicott City, has battled through Crohn's disease to chase his racing dreams. Now, at 48 years old, he is set to race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series "Eldora Dirt Derby" for a second straight year.

A tell-tale sign of a kidney stone is pain in a person's side, back and below the ribs. About one in every ten individuals will experience the pain of passing a kidney stone in their lifetime, said The pain can be so intense that people that some people compare it to giving birth. But he explains there are many treatments for the painful stones.

Before the football games and the endless supply of turkey, there is something else going on in Baltimore County that defines Thanksgiving: The Green Valley North Turkey Trot.

River Hill senior Jake Friedman, a player on the lacrosse team, is battling Crohn's Disease and selling shirts to raise money and awareness about the disease.

Jake Friedman, a junior at River Hill High, was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. He is determined to help raise money for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America

With a deadline today for uninsured Marylanders to secure health coverage retroactive to Jan. 1, would-be enrollees continued to report frustration with the state's troubled health exchange.

Arbitrary restrictions on nurse practitioners in Maryland law limit patients' access to care.

Columbia biotechnology company Osiris Therapeutics has reached a deal to sell its marquee stem cell drug, the first to win government approval, for up to $100 million.

Kaeleigh Green is graduating from Howard High School with near-perfect attendance. She hasn't missed a day of school since a family vacation in kindergarten, despite being diagnosed with Crohn's and Lyme diseases.

Robert Keller, who was The Evening Sun's first metropolitan editor and later served as executive director of the Greater Baltimore Committee, died Sunday from complications of Crohn's disease at Harbor Hospital. He was 71.

The younger of two men who admitted to stealing a wealth of culturally significant property was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison, ending the prosecution of a case that affected archives, museums and libraries across the nation.

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The answer to why some obese people develop diabetes and other health problems may be found not in just a love for junk food, but in the bacteria that thrive deep in the human gut.

On Sunday morning, families and staff members took part in Sinai's seventh annual Race for Our Kids.