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- A Johns Hopkins study finds that black youth see more advertisements for liquor.
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Residents from Howard County and beyond flocked to Wilde Lake High School on Friday, Oct. 19 for the 14th annual 50+ Expo sponsored by Howard County's office of aging. -
- Tower Federal Credit Union held its sixth annual Employee Appreciation Day and Casual for Kids Day fundraiser Sept. 19 at its Laurel headquarters.
- The Harford County Board of Estimates recently approved several leases for properties in Bel Air used by county agencies, including the Health Department and the Department of Public Works.
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- In Maryland, 1,500 people may have been exposed to contaminated steroids that caused a meningitis outbreak.
- The Baltimore County Baby Boomer Expo and Senior Expo 2012 will be held Wednesday, Oct. 10, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Timonium.
- Maryland health officials said Monday that two more patients in the state have developed meningitis after receiving a steroid injection for back pain as an outbreak that has afflicted 105 people across the country continues to grow
- Another fatality from a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis was reported Thursday, raising the death toll to five people, officials said.
- Maryland health officials are looking into two cases of meningitis, including one death, that may have been caused by spinal injections.
- Restaurant and bar owners in Baltimore may soon be required to post a letter grade on the front of their establishments rating their performance in city health inspections — a system aimed at informing the public on the cleanliness of neighborhood eateries.
- On Saturday, Oct. 6, TownMall of Westminster will host Paint TownMall Pink, an event aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer treatment and prevention.
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- 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.
- The new owners of the often-troubled Perrywood Garden Apartments in Perryman have told members of the Bush River Community Council they're committed to fixing the many problems they inherited when they bought the 184-unit low-income complex.
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- Center will offer training sessions and resources for therapists working with addicted gamblers
- World Rabies Day observed with pet vaccination clinic
- The International Council on Active Aging holds Active Aging Week, its annual health promotion week, every year during the last week in September. This year it will be celebrated Sept. 23 to 29 at senior centers, retirement communities and other senior venues in Howard County. The 2012 theme is "Many journeys, many destinations."
- Maryland health officials have shut down a Timonium cosmetic surgery center while they investigate a spate of infections in patients, one of whom died.
- Did you know there are more than 200 varieties of fruits and vegetables? While praised as a "good for you food," vegetables can be enjoyed in new and fun ways if you use a little imagination.
- Baltimore County is conducting mosquito sprayings this week in Catonsville and next week in Pikesville in the wake of two human cases of West Nile Virus.
- State health officials look to update summer youth camp regulations
- Researchers hope drug is found to mimic diabetes-curing surgery
- Proceeds from the fourth annual Flip-Flop Festivus Saturday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Harbor East will help continue research into sarcoidosis, which the medical community calls an under-recognized disease.
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- The Horizon Foundation in Columbia is awarding $300,000 in grants to three Howard County organizations to help fight childhood obesity, according to a news release.
- The Howard County Public School System, the county health department and a local nonprofit have received a total of more than $300,000 in grants to fight childhood obesity in the county.
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- Charles "Chuck" Busnuk, a retired Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene grants writer, died of cancer Aug. 31 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 64 and lived in Canton.
- The Havre de Grace City Council passed three resolutions Tuesday night, two lease amendments and one for the Highland School.
- A fatal West Nile virus case reported recently in Maryland is prompting the Harford County Health Department to ask residents to take precautions against contracting the potentially fatal disease, which is carried by mosquitoes from infected birds to humans.
- 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.
- Anne Arundel County health officials say more than 3,000 gallons of sewage have spilled out of a pumping station in Arnold.
- Charges are expected to be brought within a week to 10 days against the owners of a Forest Hill home where as many as 150 animals, both dead and alive, were found following a fire late Monday night
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- Crofton man accused of threatening a workplace shooting scheduled to report to judge
- Maryland health officials are reporting the state's first death from the West Nile virus.
- Maryland adopting federal recommendations to test newborns for congenital heart disease
- Heat contributed to the death of a Baltimore man earlier this summer, bringing heat-related fatalities to 42 in Maryland.
- After 12 cases of new strain are detected in Maryland, pigs at the state fair will be checked carefully for the disease
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