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- The failure of the congressional "supercommittee" to strike a deal on deficit reduction has left lawmakers scrambling to address a half-dozen bills of major importance to Marylanders, from extending tax breaks to paying Medicare doctors to securing federal money for roads near military bases.
- If left untreated, condition could lead to isolation and exacerbate other health issues, Hopkins researcher warns
- Arab Spring: U.S. failure to denounce punishment of those who cared for Bahrain protesters is shameful
- A Doctors Without Borders physician describes the good American anti-AIDS programs are doing, and the risks posed by 'supercommittee' cuts.
- Dozens of Maryland businesses and nonprofits are hoping to sway the congressional "supercommittee" on deficit reduction, an indication of the broad scope the panel's actions could have on the state.
- Alma Lauriente, 86, of Clarksville, died Monday, Oct. 31 of complications from a stroke. Lauriente founded the Howard County chapters of the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society.
- Clarksville: Linden-Linthicum United Methodist Church choir will be joining four other area churches for a benefit concert Sunday, No. 6 at Glenelg United Methodist Church.
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- Manchester Valley High School uses home court in fight against cancer
- Proposal seeks to raise cigarette tax to $3, among the top in the U.S.
- Ellicott City: Three local churches fight cancer with Relay for Life benefit concert
- Life sciences: Maryland gets billions in high-tech investment, needs to do more to commercialize it
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- Following outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe from Colorado farm, those who grow and sell cantaloupes here say fruit is safe
- Arbutus residents plan to donate more than $1,000 raised by free haircuts at their Catonsville salon.
- River Hill grad goes from cookies to quilts in order to raise money for cancer research
- Diner Mailbox: Is a dirty vodka martini the stupidest drink ever?
- The Havre de High School Hall of Fame Committee Wednesday announced the six people it has chosen for the Hall of Fame's second class that will be inducted in October.
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- Federal funding for HIV care held up, threatening health of locals
- Kathy Mathias, who was Ocean City's town clerk and a major behind-the-scenes figure who had worked for several mayors and city managers, died Monday of breast cancer at her home there. She was 58.
- Kathy Mathias, who was Ocean City's town clerk and a major behind-the-scenes figure who had worked for several mayors and city managers, died Monday of breast cancer at her home there. She was 58.
- Kathy Mathias, who was Ocean City's town clerk and a major behind-the-scenes figure who had worked for several mayors and city managers, died Monday of breast cancer at her home there. She was 58.
- Two weeks after abrupt resignation, St. Joseph Medical Center replaces CEO
- The land of Marx and Lenin is loving that product of American capitalism: fast food
- Latest health department report doubles season's heat death total
- While it appears now that Congress has a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling, credit unions weren't taking any chances.
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- New, faster approach helped German doctors
- A new report recommending birth control be covered by health insurance free of charge to women may be controversial but it could reduce the high cost of unwanted pregnancy
- Parents have good reason to distrust childhood vaccines
- Its 12 master's students now make use of Photoshop and Flash animation, but as it turns 100 years, the Department of Art As Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins still teaches "educating through pictures"
- Maryland recently saw its first case of measles since 2009, part of a trend of increased prevalence of dangerous but controllable diseases in the wake of misinformation-fueled distrust of vaccines.
- Hopkins' Dr. Gordon Tomaselli found his calling after his mother's cardiac arrest
- Maryland officials are pitching the state's talent pool —corporate executives, academics and consultants that regularly deal with the federal government — as a resource for supporting existing companies and attracting new ones.
- Hopkins study on anti-smoking drug Chantix said healthy, middle-aged smokers have 72 percent chance of serious heart problem
- Two high school graduates held All For One Cure, a music festival to benefit the American Cancer Society at Cedar Lane Regional Park.
- The Food and Drug Administration's new warnings a welcome addition in the fight against the nation's $200 billion addiction
- Two high school graduates host a music festival for the American Cancer Society
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- Deadly outbreak of E. coli in Germany should spur Senate to fully fund new programs.
- New research adds another perspective to complex view of C-sections
- Bisphenol A helps keep the food supply free of contaminants, but Maryland has banned it based on specious concerns about its safety.
- The national study, called Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, or EARLI, is tracking mothers of autistic children through subsequent pregnancies to try to determine how a combination of genetic and environmental factors might contribute to autism.
