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Op-ed

The best science is often accidental

Allowing scientists to follow their unbridled curiosity about how nature works is the best way to encourage new discoveries, rather than requiring some utilitarian end.

The best science is often accidental

Business

Emocha Mobile Health expands to opioid addiction treatment

Emocha Mobile Health, a Baltimore-based health technology startup, is expanding its mobile application that helps people takes their medications as prescribed to opioid addiction treatment with a $1.7 million federal grant and $1 million in private funding.

Emocha Mobile Health expands to opioid addiction treatment

Health

Bringing virtual reality to medical treatment

Shock Trauma is one of the many hospitals and doctors offices around the country testing, and in some cases already using, virtual reality technology in treating patients. Virtual reality is being used to distract patients during painful procedures, such as treatment for third-degree burns, so they feel less pain. Soldiers and veterans suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are getting treated with virtual reality videos that recreate traumatic events to help patients face

Bringing virtual reality to medical treatment


Op-ed

Alzheimer's clinical research lacks leadership

Can a childhood cancer doctor like me have insights about that other end of medicine — older adults with dementia? Confronting my wife's Alzheimer's disease, I am appalled by the lack of effective therapy for her and by what I see as a lack of direction in clinical dementia research, a lack of structure and a lack of ambitious leadership.

Alzheimer's clinical research lacks leadership





Obituaries

Dr. Leopold M. 'Leo' Karpeles, longtime physician, dies

Dr. Leopold M. "Leo" Karpeles, a retired physician who earlier had been an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died April 26 from complications of dementia at Fairfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Crownsville. He was 95.

Dr. Leopold M. 'Leo' Karpeles, longtime physician, dies


Carroll County News

Greg's Challenge: Living well with MLD

Greg Bennett's challenge is remaining free of the prison of other peoples' perceptions. It is keeping loose from restrictions on his movement and personal growth. Greg's challenge is exceeding the expectations that would set an expiration date on his dreams. Greg's Challenge is a website, www.gregshallenge.org, that tells the story of a 19-year-young man who, with the support of his family, is fighting the odds.

Greg's Challenge: Living well with MLD

Op-ed

Paid sick leave laws are a win-win for Md. families, business

Opponents of earned sick leave laws resort to fear-mongering, with dire predictions about the impact on business for a modest earned sick and safe leave policy. However, these concerns are not borne out by the facts. The experiences of cities and states around the country that have already implemented sick leave laws demonstrate that business climate has been healthy, costs have been minimal and job growth has been strong in municipalities with earned sick leave laws.

Paid sick leave laws are a win-win for Md. families, business

Health

Long work hours for new doctors criticized

New residents at dozens of hospitals around the country, including some in Baltimore, are working marathon 28-hour shifts as part of a pair of studies assessing impacts on patient safety, and consumer and medical student groups want it stopped

Long work hours for new doctors criticized


Army lab aids NFL effort to reduce concussions

Criticized for years for not addressing a concussion problem that could threaten the sport's future, the NFL is working now to get ahead of it, changing rules to minimize the injuries and funding research into new technologies at Aberdeen Proving Ground and elsewhere through a competition sponsored by Under Armour and General Electric.

Army lab aids NFL effort to reduce concussions

Health

Researchers discuss cure, vaccine for HIV

Nearly 200 of those researchers are gathering at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore to share the latest research, and hopefully spark new ideas, in the effort to meet that goal. They were in town for the International Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology, which for the last 17 years has brought together the best minds in AIDS research to help advance ways to treat it.

Researchers discuss cure, vaccine for HIV

Op-ed

Is science in crisis?

The current crisis in science (internal squabbles, credibility issues, funding deficits, political questioning) provides an opportunity to for reforms that will ensure that science continues to provide humanity with the new insights, tools and alternatives it must have to face a challenging future.

Is science in crisis?


Obituaries

Dr. Thomas E. Schwark

Dr. Thomas E. Schwark, a pediatrician who had served as CEO of Wyman Park Medical Center and ended his career working for the United States Agency for International Development, died April 24 of a heart attack at his home in Harper House in Cross Keys. He was 76.

Dr. Thomas E. Schwark


Op-ed

Is artificial turf causing cancer?

Rubber tires contain a number of carcinogens and lung irritants. The government knows a lot about the harmful effect that tires present and yet the Environmental Protection Agency has actually promoted the use of shredded tires and artificial turf where our children play.

Is artificial turf causing cancer?


Obituaries

Charles W. "Chuck" Woodfield, science teacher

Charles W. "Chuck" Woodfield, whose career in Baltimore County public schools teaching science and serving as department chair spanned more than four decades, died May 9 of complications from pneumonia at his Jarrettsville home. He was 88.

Charles W. "Chuck" Woodfield, science teacher

Obituaries

Dr. Oscar A. Iseri, pathologist

Dr. Oscar A. Iseri, a retired Veterans Administration pathologist, died April 25 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Lorien Harmony Hall Assisted Living in Columbia. He was 86.

Dr. Oscar A. Iseri, pathologist










Obituaries

Herman L. Ammon

Herman L. Ammon, who taught chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park, for nearly five decades and was also an expert in the field of crystal structure, died Aug. 2 of a stroke at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham.

Herman L. Ammon





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