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Eleanor M. Barnhart, former director of volunteer services at Sheppard Pratt Health system, died April 19 at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson of complications from dementia. She was 87.

Raymond J. Hiser Sr., a retired illustrator who was a volunteer aboard the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown, died.

The Greater Baltimore Medical Center's Spring Nearly New Sale takes place this year from April 25-May 2.

No hospital in Maryland earned a top score under a new, simplified ranking system from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that adds to the collection of sometimes conflicting assessments of the nation's health care facilities.

William E. Gunther Jr., a grocery store produce manager and an Army veteran, died March 29 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of a heart attack. He was 68.

The Stella Maris Hospice Prayer Shawl Ministry is one of many in the Towson area which knit or crochet shawls to give to patients, fellow church members, elderly and sick persons. So meaningful are the shawls that it is not unusual for people to be buried in them or have them laid over their casket.They become family heirlooms, a last treasured reminder of mom or dad. They are even ascribed with healing power, as one cancer patient who went into remission did.

Dr. Samuel McC. M. Lumpkin, a retired otolaryngologist who was a partner Ear, Nose and Throat Associates at greater Baltimore Medical Center, died March 10 at his White Hall farm of complications from Rocky Mountain spotted fever. He was 83.

C-sections are becoming more like birth experiences and less like surgical techniques.

Vice President Joe Biden visited a Maryland State Police laboratory on Monday in Pikesville to call attention to new federal funding intended to help reduce the backlog in rape kit testing.

Babies contract infant botulism by ingesting bacterium spores, which then harbor in the large intestine where toxins breed. The toxins damage nerves that send the signals to make muscles contract. In turn, the body slowly loses its ability to move.

Kieron Quinn, a retired attorney who practiced admiralty and environmental law, died of cancer complications Feb. 13 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Riderwood resident was 73.

As Bonefish Grill open with fanfare at a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by county officials, it's further testimony to downtown Towson's status as an emerging market in the region.

Margaret H. Downes, a homemaker and volunteer, died of respiratory failure. She was 95.

Loretta McC. Barrett, a retired Realtor whose career spanned 50 years, died Tuesday at her Parkville home of leukemia. She was 90.

When we as the region's doctors speak to the public about vaccines, it's about more than individual health. It's about the health of our community. It's about our mutual obligation to one other. It's about the value of vaccines to safeguard the future of Baltimore.

After the worst month for measles in more than two decades, public health officials gathered at the Johns Hopkins University on Monday to talk about ways to prevent 2015 from becoming the worst year.

John H. "Jack" Somerville, a retired Baltimore attorney who had been a partner in Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP, died.

These Baltimoreans needed a semester in Italy to get together

A 20-year-old man was arrested and charged with beating and robbing a pregnant woman in Guilford on Jan. 24, police announced Monday.

Dorothy H. Cunningham, who had been volunteer coordinator for the Baltimore County Department of Aging and a hospital trustee, died.

Dr. Peter Beilenson thought fighting the intractable rates of drug use and sexually transmitted diseases in Baltimore was tough. Then the former city health commissioner took on health insurance.

Birth announcements for Carroll Hospital Center

Wolfgang E. "Wolf" Thormann, former professor and chairman of the language department at Goucher College, died.

Birth announcements for Carroll Hospital Center

Little Joe, or "LJ" as he is called by owners Kathryne and Essam Shomali of Rodgers Forge fulfulled No. 15 on his "bucket list": Meet his new baby "brother." The beagle is terminally ill with cancer and the Shomalis created a bucket list for him.

Lyne Charego was one of several babies born at area hospitals on New Year's Day.

For the past several years, workers at Gilchrist Hospice Care have raised about $5,000 for some counterparts in Tanzania to give their overwhelmed center a boost. But when U.S. government aid ran out in 2009 for many African hospices, the Baltimore area caregivers made a decision.

Dr. Esther Edery Dibos, a retired Towson pediatrician who was a founder of the Hispanic Apostolate, a Fells Point clinic, died Dec. 8 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. She was 78.

Former nurse Amy Deickman saw a need for clothing for premature babies when she worked in the Neonative Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a hospital — one that she plans to fill this holiday season.

Beverly Mason, a founder of Greater Baltimore Medical Center who was also a longtime volunteer with Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, died Nov. 14 at the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville of respiratory failure. She was 93.

The Winters Mill High School National Honor Society and Student Government Association are conducting a pajama drive for the Jammies for Kids fundraising organization.

National move to 'patient-centered medical homes' aims to please patients

Rawlings-Blake says she'll sign the legislation

Dorothy LeF. Cadigan, the former owner of a Rodgers Forge consignment shop who was a longtime volunteer at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died Sunda at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson of complications of pulmonary hypertension. She was 82.

Bruce D. Gerwig, a professional golfer and instructor who was the teaching pro at the Hereford Golf Center in Hereford, died Nov. 15 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of Stage 4 non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 65.

After 150 years, the aim of University of Maryland, St. Joseph Medical Center is still compassionate care. Just ask Sister Evelyn Grudza, one of five Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, who have worked at the hospital for decades and who believe, their job is to continue the mission of the three Franciscan sisters who opened St. Joseph's German Catholic Hospital in three donated rowhouses in East Baltimore in 1864.

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.

For house concert impresarios like Daniel Weiser and Wendy Shuford, there's no place like home. Weiser, an accomplished pianist, is trying to build a network of house concerts in north Baltimore, including at his own house in Guilford. And Shuford, who doesn't pay a musical instrument, regularly invites people to her small apartment in Cross Keys for concerts by musicians, such as one Nov. 7 by a couple from Maine who play Celtic folk music.

A former Towson gynecologist was sentenced Monday to a year in prison for illegally distributing prescription painkillers to his girlfriend and two other people.

Phyllis C. Bathurst, a board certified microbiologist who worked at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, died there Oct. 26 of a heart attack. She was 65.

American Cancer Society sponsors Look Good Feel Better classes for women who are cancer patients, like Ellen Briggs of Towson. Organizers say the classes are more than tips for makeup and wigs but a "makeover for the spirit."

Dr. Thomas J. Kenny, a retired University of Maryland School of Medicine pediatric psychologist, died Oct. 19 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 82.

Two local wrestling coaches and an accomplished former high school wrestler will be inducted into the Maryland chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame next month.

Obitauries for residents of Baltimore County