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- Dr. Robert Redfield, an AIDS expert with the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been appointed the new director of the Centers for Disease Control.
- Republicans have for years struggled to gain traction in seven of the state's eight U.S. House districts but observers say Gov. Larry Hogan's unexpected win in 2014 has made it easier to recruit candidates.
- "Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. (PHWFF) is dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and
- Drs. Jonathan Safren and Candace Wilson join Carroll Health Group
- More than 1,000 flags honoring the country's veterans will fill a field on the Maiden Choice Lane campus of this weekend as part of the annual Charlestown Field of Honor.
- Neurologist David Epstein joins Carroll Health Group Neurology
- If we expand Job Corps by a factor of 25, we could re-educate millions of dropouts and save others from Freddie Gray's fate. We would offer a road to adulthood for young Americans who now don't see any road to a future that isn't about drugs, prison or dying in the street.
- Dr. Christopher Grove, chief of pathology, was named Carroll Hospital Center's 2015 Physician of the Year
- Three years ago, Senior Airman Gideon Connelly decided to have his left leg amputated below the knee. On Thursday, Connelly ran the 200-meter dash in 29.4 seconds.
- Highland resident Vic McCrary, vice president for research and economic development, Morgan State University, was selected to the 2014 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
- Calls for the resignation of Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki over ridiculously excessive wait times for VA medical appointments and, moreover, for the falsification of data that would have illuminated these and related problems, while understandable, are reactionary — and will do little to address the VA's more deeply rooted problems. These problems are systemic in nature. Their solution will require a long term, strategic approach in addition to some strong-handed
- Backlog of VA disability claims and the resulting hardships facing veterans are truly outrageous — but not surprising in the least
- Alexis Ohanian rose from Howard High School to build reddit, a top-50 website, and is now paving the way for other web entrepreneurs with his book "Without Their Permission".
- The deadly shooting at one of the region's largest military facilities reopened a debate Monday about whether U.S. officials have done enough to secure the nation's massive portfolio of domestic bases.
- William O. Goldstein, who practiced law in Baltimore for half a century, died Aug. 21 of kidney failure at Roland Park Place. He was 87.
- Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman, the founder of modern ophthalmic pathology who spent his nearly 60-year-career studying diseases of the eye, died March 16. His wife of 53 years, Anastasia U. Zimmerman, a registered nurse who had served as a major with the Army Nurse Corps, died Tuesday.
- Dr. Don-Neil Brotman, a retired Baltimore dentist and oenophile, died Saturday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 80.
- The Baltimore office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation's worst performer in processing disability claims, will receive more employee training, an influx of senior staff and a new digital processing system ahead of schedule.
- Johns Hopkins doctors perform rare double transplant procedure on soldier Brendan Marrocco who lost all his limbs in Iraq War
- Kraig Scot Bower, M.D., F.A.C.S, the Director of Refractive Surgery at The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is now seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris•Castoro Eye Care Center).
- Two Maryland men work with wounded veterans to help them relax, get back into everyday life
- A Florida-based federal security contractor warned that it would lay off nearly 100 people at two government facilities in Maryland by the end of September.
- Marine soldier has nerves in spine burned off to stop pain in his arm endured during combat in Afghanistan.
- Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., former head of the nuclear medicine division at Mercy Medical Center who was also a practicing prestidigitator, died July 20 of heart disease at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 80.
- Consumers can donate hotel reward points to families of wounded veterans
- Transplanted Marylander Scott Parsons of Bethesda finished sixth in his first Olympic competition in Athens in 2004, but after failing to make the final in 2008 in Beijing, he is back for redemption in London.
- In Harford County Saturday, the Support Our Heroes gala will raise money for the Fisher House Foundation, a national network of 57 homes across the nation that offer housing to families of wounded warriors undergoing treatment.
- SSG Kelly Keck has home built for his family in Havre de Grace by volunteers and Homes For Our Troops
- The bus carrying Cody Stanton and other wounded soldiers breezed up Interstate 95 on Tuesday to the site of former World Trade Center in New York, with an escort arranged by Baltimore's police commissioner.
- The three teens who died in a fiery head-on collision on U.S. 50 early Saturday were all recent graduates of two Anne Arundel high schools returning from a birthday party.
- Retired pediatrician had been athletics physician for Severna Park High School for more than four decades
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- The Support Our Heroes Ball, a dance being held under a circus-sized tent at Aberdeen Proving Ground, has raised funds for a network of houses that offer free lodging to the families of wounded warriors.