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- More hospitals in Maryland require workers to get vaccinated for flu, pushing the number above the national average.
- Crisis CEO Jeffrey Norman resigns without explanation from St. Joseph Medical Center.
- The Rev. Edward B. Hemler, a retired educator who had been pastor of St. Mark Roman Catholic Church in Fallston, died Sunday of internal bleeding at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 74.
- A federal jury convicted John R. McLean, a retired Eastern Shore cardiologist, of health care fraud and related charges for placing unnecessary coronary stents in the arteries of dozens of patients and billing private and public insurers millions of dollars for the superfluous procedures.
- Doris Brandt Bauer, an art educator and artist whose mixed-media collages incorporated found objects such as driftwood, died of pneumonia and respiratory failure July 17 at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 86.
- Dr. Edward Michael Barczak, a retired Baltimore obstetrician-gynecologist who delivered thousands of babies during his 40-year career, died Tuesday of cancer at his Timonium home.
- Dr. Edward Michael Barczak, a retired Baltimore obstetrician-gynecologist who delivered thousands of babies during his 40-year career, died Tuesday of cancer at his Timonium home.
- The Maryland Board of Physicians revoked the medical license of Towson cardiologist Dr. Mark G. Midei on Wednesday after finding that he falsified patient records and "implanted cardiac stents unnecessarily" in four out of five cases reviewed
- While the Maryland Board of Physicians weighs professional charges against one state cardiologist accused of placing heart stents into hundreds of patients who didn't need them, a federal jury in Baltimore is considering criminal charges against another.
- Albert Carl Fields, a former educator who later became food service manager at Calvert Hall High School, died Saturday from complications of Parkinson's disease at St. Joseph Medical Center.
- Albert Carl Fields, a former educator who later became food service manager at Calvert Hall High School, died Saturday from complications of Parkinson's disease at St. Joseph Medical Center.
- Emergency procedures deemed mostly appropriate, but 'elective' cases questioned
- Baltimore County launched Maturity Works, a custom health care job training program for people age 55 and up, part of a $10 million nationwide effort to prepare older employees for the new workplace.
- Mark Midei makes case to physicians' board that he practiced appropriately
- Len Bias' death shocked the sports world, but a quarter century later, drugs are still a huge problem in sports.
- Sister Mary Ferdinand Tunis, a Sister of Mercy, who taught parochial school mathematics until establishing the Sisters of Mercy Windsor Hills Project in the early 1970s, died June 7 of pneumonia at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 91.
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- Dr. Robert Ancona at St. Joseph Medical Center answers questions about MRSA in children
- The Japanese nuclear disaster has caught our attention, but CT scans and excessive x-rays pose a much greater danger.
- Dr. Mark Midei writes a response to the charges that he placed unnecessary stents and profited from medical device manufacturers.
- A $60 million fraud lawsuit filed by Dr. Mark Midei against St. Joseph Medical Center was transferred to the county Monday by a city judge who also threw Midei's attorney out of the courtroom.