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A recent twin study hints that one-size-fits-all diets might be doomed to fail. Call it incompatibility. - Dr. Paul Talalay, a noted molecular pharmacologist who headed a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine research team that found a chemical in broccoli that boosted the cancer-fighting abilities of humans and animal cells, died Sunday of heart failure at his Roland Park home. He was 95.
- A large study provides the strongest evidence that children and teenagers can be desensitized to peanut allergies through controlled, escalating exposure.
- Jack I. Stone, a retired economist who worked on the Marshall Plan in Berlin to rebuild Europe after World War II, died of cardiovascular disease complications Nov. 1 at Assisted Living Well in Millersville. He was 98.
- The Johns Hopkins reconstructive surgery team performed the world’s first transplant of a penis and scrotum on a wounded soldier.
- Here is what is inside the special 'recovery' glove Tom Brady has been wearing on his ailing hand
- The latest group of mass murders make it appear as though a new phenomenon has taken hold of America. In fact, outbursts of murderous rage have existed for centuries
- Tom Brady is Under Armour's 'muse' on new athlete recovery line
- Dr. John W. Littlefield, 91, former chairman of pediatrics and physiology at the Johns Hopkins University, died April 20.
- Dr. Richard Mayer, who trained generations of neurologists over nearly 50 years as a teaching physician in Baltimore, and whose pioneering research advanced testing with electromyography, known as EMG, died last week after a car crash in Towson.
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- Nation's first penis transplant performed on Massachusetts cancer patient
- Jane A. Watts, a registered nurse who later became a pediatric nurse practitioner, died Monday from pulmonary fibrosis at her Riderwood home. She was 79.
- Could radiation from wireless devices be hurting your child's brain?
- About 60 percent of all cancer patients have radiation, and though dozens of studies are still in the works to understand who may benefit most from protons, the promise of the more precise technology has lead to a boom in construction of the costly facilities and interest from patients who hope to for better outcomes and fewer side effects
- More than 42,000 medical students from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University and others around the country and world learned where they would train to become family doctors, surgeons or other kinds of physicians
- Loa K. Prout, whose varied careers included being an airline stewardess to a registered nurse, died of a brain hemorrhage on her 91st birthday at Hospice of the Chesapeake — Mandarin House in Harwood.
- Dr. Richard Tidball Johnson, 84, a Johns Hopkins scientist and physician who was a pioneer in global central nervous system infection research, died of pneumonia Nov. 22 at the Hopkins Hospital.
- Gail E. Heffner, a registered nurse who later earned her pilot's license and flew cross country solo, died Thursdayof congestive heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 77.
- Public health groups and Johns Hopkins University students are waging a campaign to ensure that a potentially groundbreaking tuberculosis drug developed by Hopkins becomes available to patients in poor nations where the disease is most pervasive.
- The probiotics found in yogurt, kefir, kimchi and other foods for years have been marketed as healthful, though it wasn't clear why or how.
- Diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer shortly before his 11th birthday, the now 16-year-old Rolle has been cancer-free for five years, according to his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital. He's the grandson of Maryland play-by-play announcer Johnny Holliday.
- Thanks to an experimental device known as a "bionic pancreas," 7-year-old Type 1 diabetic Zara Cheek of Baltimore got to live a normal life at a Massachusetts summer camp, if only for two weeks.
- Johns Hopkins Hospital still considered among best hospitals in many specialties
- Maryland's superintendent of schools isn't taking down the dozens of signs in the windows of her office building that say Maryland is #1 in education. And it's unlikely that Gov. Martin O'Malley will stop touting the public education system, as he did just Wednesday in a tweet.
- Dr. Elizabeth A. Martinez, a Johns Hopkins-trained anesthesiologist and critical-care physician who worked in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections in surgical patients, died of a rare cancer Sept. 19 at her Boston home. She was 47 and had lived in Canton.
- Johns Hopkins Hospital is back on top — reclaiming bragging rights and a lucrative marketing chip as the nation's best hospital in the annual ranking released Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.
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- 5K held in Annapolis, victims remembers at Baltimore 10K and half-marathon
- Like the dozen other Boston bombing victims who were robbed of a limb — or two — in the violent explosions of shrapnel and debris, Erika Brannock, a Towson teacher, is facing an unpredictable and long road to recovery, said medical experts familiar with lower-leg amputations.
- At the Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland schools of medicine, Match Day was a moment for joy, and passion for various medical specialties.
- The Baltimore VA said it is the first hospital to use 3-D mammograms, a technology it believes will better detect breast cancer
- Freezing with CoolSculpting is latest option to get rid of last few inches of fat.
- Dr. John E. Adams, a pathologist who had chaired the department of pathology at Greater Baltimore Medical Center for more than two decades after its founding and was a leading expert in bioethics, died July 9 of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
- Johns Hopkins Hospital lost its coveted spot as the top-ranked hospital in the country for the first time in 22 years, getting edged out by Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital in the latest analysis by U.S. News & World Report to be released Tuesday.
- Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor emeritus of neuroscience and neurology, died of complications after cardiac arrest May 10 at his hospital. The Canton resident was 75.
- Retired Edgewood Arsenal scientist studied the effects of a poison gas surprise attack on military personnel
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- Urologist and former Johns Hopkins professor was recalled as a "super hero" in his field who treated thousands
- Mary Joan Hagigh, a retired social worker and registered nurse, died June 24 from complications of a fractured hip at Emeritus Towson Assisted Living.
