cystic fibrosis

Lea Marie Faraone raised money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and advocated and educated thousands through the social media platform Salty Cysters.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Dec 21, 2018

Century senior Theo Johnson, a member of the Knights boys cross country team, talks about being an athlete with cystic fibrosis.

Manchester-resident Gabriel “Gabe” Miller went through puberty early. It’s a symptom of the rare disorder he lives with. Gabe can’t go to public school because of his immune system, so his mother educates him at home. He can’t play sports, either, and social opportunities are tough to come by.

National Night Out celebrations are still possible to plan in neighborhoods. Maple Lawn will host one on Aug. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m.

There are many ways in which sports and sports figures can work with the general public to help bring awareness to certain causes that combine the star power of the professional athlete with the resources of hard working volunteers to reach a common goal.

Former Orioles relief pitcher Sammy Stewart, who helped lead the team to its last World Series title in 1983 before personal tragedy and drug addiction derailed his life, was found dead Friday in Hendersonville, NC. He was 63.

By Peter Schmuck

Mar 3, 2018

Notable Marylanders who died in 2017.

Earl "Pen" Jones, an engineer and Lutherville activist, dies

By Jacques Kelly

Nov 15, 2017

Frank Deford, a longtime writer of Sports Illustrated profiles and later a commentator for NPR and HBO Sports, died Sunday.

By Childs Walker

May 29, 2017

Kelley Gordon is taking her concerns to a community town hall meeting on Thursday, March 2. Sponsored by the local advocacy group, Carroll Community Action Network, or Carroll CAN, the meeting will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the St. Paul United Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, 17 Bond St., Westminster.

From her early swirling solos as the Sugarplum Fairy on Howard County stages to co-founding Charm City Ballet in May, Friedman has followed the steps of many gifted dancers before her. But her journey to dance, teach and direct her company's first performance of "A Christmas Carol" on Saturday at the Baltimore Museum of Art has included a challenge most dancers don't face: a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that clogs the lungs, damages the digestive system and reduces life expectancy.

The sweat on Evan Mulrooney's back glistened as the sun broke through an overcast sky. At 6 a.m. on a typically warm and humid morning, the Maryland football team put in its normal early workout at Byrd Stadium before heading off to class, work and other responsibilities. But Wednesday was different from other morning workouts. Maryland football held it's third annual Lift for Life event Wednesday, sponsored by the Maryland chapter of Uplifting Athletes.

News and events around Baltimore County

On a recent day, 21/2-year-old Connor was busy helping his grandmother make cookies, a normal family scene except for what happened before the bowls and

By Meredith Cohn

Apr 17, 2015

Each touchdown Maryland scores during its regular season finale against Rutgers on Nov. 29 will lead to a contribution toward cystic fibrosis research, as the University of Maryland chapter of Uplifting Athletes is holding a Touchdown Pledge Drive.

By Matt Zenitz

Nov 19, 2014

Event for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation helps build Baltimore's culinary scene

Maryland senior offensive lineman Sal Conaboy was named to the 2014 Rimington Trophy Fall Watch List, the trophy committee announced Tuesday.

As thousands of Baltimore-area college students accept their diplomas this spring, many will have found themselves profoundly transformed by the experience.

Part of Friday's annual Red-White spring game at Maryland will involve fundraising for Uplifting Athletes, a non-profit organization that matches college football teams that raise money for medical research of rare diseases.

Peter R. Godbout, owner of Dad's Delivery in Baltimore, died Friday of heart failure at his Caton Avenue home. He was 62.

Dr. Peter C. Maloney, professor of physiology and associate dean for graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Dec. 12 of cancer at his Bare Hills home. He was 72.

While the recently announced two-year budget deal has put a temporary tourniquet on the sequester, it doesn't fully stop the drain of critical medical research funding.

Thirty years after he pitched for the Orioles in the World Series, Sammy Stewart is out of prison and free of a drug addiction that ruined his life for nearly two decades.

The tall, lanky patient enters the room bent over and shuffling like a man twice his age. He climbs on a gurney and lies back, head throbbing. Then Carlton Haywood pulls out a bottle of Tums, relief-in-waiting for the nausea he fears will come.

Recher Theatre to end its run as a concert venue on Sunday

A Towson law firm plans to challenge the renewal of the Recher Theatre's liquor license in an effort to stop the establishment's ambitions of becoming a nightclub.

Tonight, 45 hopefuls were given -- and I do mean given -- their golden tickets in Oklahoma City

Francis Joseph McNerney III, a graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School where he was known as the Fighting Gael mascot, died Dec. 21 at the University of Maryland Medical Center from complications related to a lung transplant. He was 23.

As more companies seek to protect their investments through patenting, scientists, lawyers and bioethicists are left questioning the impacts on research and patient care.

For the first time since her son was born nearly four years ago, Katie Lyman is doing what she's always wanted to do: be a mom. Since he was born on Oct. 16, 2008, Jack Lyman has been in and out of the hospital, suffered through surgeries and hasn't been able to see his parents

Jim Palmer is auctioning off his three Cy Young awards and two of his four Gold Gloves.

Any job, except teaching positions, that came open in the Harford County public school system, had to be advertised before they were filled, the school board voted 25 years ago this week.

Howard High School senior wins at the Eighth Annual Howard County Student Film Festival was held Friday, March 23.

Elkridge: Nothing beats a feel-good story than an extra feel-good sequel! I am thrilled to report some exciting news from Amy Bahrijczuk about the recent (and final) Elkridge Elementary School Hop/Shoot/Jump-A-Thon to help fight Cystic Fibrosis, which has been an Elkridge Elementary fundraising event for the past 11 years.

Since 2002, when three students were diagnosed with the rare disease, Elkridge Elementary School has held fundraisers to fight cystic fibrosis. This year's was the last.

Baltimore Bartenders' Guild prepares inaugural event