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Paul B. Rothman from the University of Iowa is appointed new CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the medical school - Meet your menus: Baltimore Winter Restaurant Week 2012 on its way
- Institute of Medicine panel says few experiments on chimpanzees are scientifically necessary
- Obama administration was correct to limit access to morning-after contraceptive pill
- State health officials had already suspended some prescription authority
- The Obama administration was correct to reject expanding over-the-counter access to Plan B contraceptive pill
- Amid the tangle of slow-moving traffic and purple jerseys that was Sunday's Baltimore Ravens tailgate, Larry the Cable Guy, the working man's comedian, was talking food – and how to ease that ubiquitous heartburn.
- The state health department is asking for public comments on the use of synthetic marijuana-like substances that may cause severe reactions in some people and are regulated at the federal level and in at least 40 states.
- Obama administration chooses politics over science in the familiar arena of birth control
- For people with AIDS, medical marijuana can bring relief for many side-effects of the anti-retroviral drugs they must take and it is less toxic and less addictive than other medications that serve the same purpose
- Drug shortages: Government price controls inhibit development of needed medicines
- Michele Bachmann would close an embassy Jimmy Carter closed 30 years ago; Rick Perry doesn't know the voting age; Herman Cain wonders which one Libya is. Newt, it's your turn.
- Blue-collar comic to offer tips to the tailgating crowd before Sunday's Ravens vs. Colts game
- Baltimore gets a road map to deal with decades-long HIV scourge
- The cutting of eight athletic programs to save football at the University of Maryland is like Wall Street gouging the poor to pay off wealthy investors
- Dr. Angela Wakhweya began her medical career in her native Uganda, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, where she saw many patients, friends and even some family members succumb to the deadly disease.
- Deborah S. Edelman, an author and writer who wrote widely on health issues, died Nov. 10 of metastatic breast cancer at her Mount Washington home. She was 51.
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- WBAL radio talk-show host is battling pancreatic cancer
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- Stevenson University has bought the Shire Pharmaceuticals plant next door to its Owings Mills campus, a $10.5 million deal that a school official said will expand the grounds by a third.
- Leonard Pitts writes that those who remember Michael Jackson when he was young feel something other than a sense of justice at the news that his physician has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in his death.
- University of Maryland, Baltimore President Jay Perman regards childhood obesity as the great public health challenge of our time. With a Nov. 15-16 summit, Perman will kick off his effort to make the university a national center for battling the epidemic.
- A reader adds his complaints to the list of things Occupy Wall Street demonstrators ought to be protesting
- 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.
- Here are some of the best events for the week in Baltimore nightlife.
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- Putting returning Iraq veterans to work on the U.S.-Mexico border would keep them employed and help stem the flow of illegal drugs and people into our country
- The only things endangered by import of Canadian drugs are the huge profits of U.S. pharmaceutical companies
- Graduate of Virginia-Maryland Regional Collge of Veterinary Medicine.
- With the Board of Regents just two months from weighing in on a proposed merger of Maryland's largest public research campuses, Baltimore civic leaders are rallying against any move that would place the University of Maryland, Baltimore under out-of-town control.
- Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches
- Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches
- Lisbon/Woodbine: Smokin' Hot Catering is serving up a hearty portion of Italian at its monthly community dinners this month..
- The annual Harford Award Program was held Wednesday, September 21 at the Richlin Ballroom in Edgewood. Over 350 business and community leaders attended the dinner event that recognized five Harford County firms for their outstanding contributions to the community, the economy and their employees.
- Geri and Larry Kalck, of Fallston, announce the engagement of their daughter, Karen Angela Kalck, to Jason Clinton McCormick, son of Dennis McCormick of Louisville, Tenn., and Christy Linke of Plant City, Fla.
- David and Judy Garland, of Martinsville, Va., announce the engagement of their daughter, Ruth Palmer Garland, of Martinsville, to Timothy Brian Neary of Baldwin. He is the son of Patrick and Patricia Neary, of Baldwin.
- Demolition is set to begin in November at the intersection of Route 1 and Route 198, where a new Walgreens will be built, the first Walgreens in Laurel.
- Downtown Alliance starts Hometown Heroes Banner Program as part of Veterans Day celebration
- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. of Rockville said it won a five-year contract worth up to $1.25 billion to provide millions of doses of an anthrax vaccine for government stockpiles.
- Dwayne Alan Skiles, a 34-year-old La Plata man, pleaded guilty Friday to peddling phony Viagra on Craigslist, after the four-month scheme was discovered by an undercover investigator working for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Corp.
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- Harsh criticism of watermen as poachers and drug users is a gross distortion of reality
- Factors include low income- and property-tax revenue and increasing cost of employee benefits, prescription drugs
- Acupuncture at Howard Community College draws crowds
