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A Howard County police officer is credited with helping to save a substitute teacher's life at Reservoir High School following his quick response. -
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- The first annual Bike the Lights, a new event to take place in Columbia¿s Symphony of Lights display, was postponed this week because of inclement weather.
- Tail Lights, a 1.4-mile walk through Columbia¿s Symphony of Lights, is back this year and will be held on Dec. 4 in Symphony Woods.
- For adults, the holidays can be a stressful time, so don't neglect your blood pressure as an early warning sign that your system is overtaxed. Come down to the Elkridge Branch Library Dec. 9 between 1 and 3 p.m. for a free walk-in assessment of your blood pressure by professionals with Howard County General Hospital.
- Deborah Miller has been appointed director of cultural transformation for Howard County General Hospital, a move that hospital officials hope will improve the patient experience at the Columbia hospital.
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- Howard County General Hospital has received a $5 million donation from a husband-and-wife duo of doctors, the largest private donation in the history of the hospital, the hospital foundation announced Thursday.
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- Howard County police are investigating a single vehicle crash early Sunday morning in Columbia that left one person dead and two others injured.
- Government-run health care fails again as Ebola shows signs of spreading
- There are signs throughout Howard County General Hospital that ask patients to inform hospital staff if they have traveled recently, even if it wasn't a trip abroad.
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- Breast cancer gets a lot of attention ¿ and not just during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There¿s a good reason for that, as any of the quarter-million American women diagnosed with breast cancer each year will tell you. But breast cancer isn¿t the only serious health risk women should be aware of, according to county health professionals.
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- No parent wants to be in a position to use it, but child-safety experts agree that learning infant and child CPR is a must for every mother and father.
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- As health officials fail to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak, hospitals in Baltimore and across the U.S. are readying space and equipment for what some consider an inevitability – the arrival of the deadly virus here.
- Samuel E. Jackson Jr., a retired research psychologist who was a longtime active member of Kappa Alpha Psi, an historically black fraternity, died Sept. 1 at Howard County General Hospital of heart failure. He was 80.
- Howard County government and Laurel city government were among about a group of jurisdictions granted state funding this week to support the design, rehabilitation and construction of bike pathway projects.
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- In 1993, Reisfeld approached Howard County General Hospital and, with its support, founded Better BedRest Inc., to provide resources and information through a hospital hotline for pregnant women who are prescribed bed rest by their physicians or midwives.
- A Howard County man died when a tree fell on him while he was grilling on Daisy Road in Woodbine, authorities said.
- The Howard County Health Department became the first department in Maryland this week to launch an awareness campaign about the role of fathers in the breastfeeding of newborns.
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- Two Ellicott City residents who county police believe were suffering from mental health issues were killed last week in two separate police-involved shootings – incidents that the county's top elected official says refocuses the need for more mental health initiatives.
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