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Hopkins aims to make ICU safer with $8.9 million grant
Johns Hopkins will use an $8.9 million gift to make intensive care units safer for patients, expanding on the institution's past work to reduce medical mistakes that have long troubled hospitals.
The grant is part of a 10-year, $500 million program &#...Tags: Breast Cancer, Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Pneumonia, Nursing
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The Make A Wish Foundation does it again
KIAHIt was a picture-perfect day for 18-year old Lesly. She was picked up by a limo, followed by a little shopping, then some pampering at the Beauty Indulgence Day Spa, before her big photo shoot with LoveBud PhotographY. It sounds like any girls dream-day....Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Photography and Video, Services and Shopping, Personal Service
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Florida Hospital opens dedicated kids’ bone marrow transplant unit
Vital Signs Health Blog - Orlando SentinelChildren in Central Florida who need a life-saving bone marrow or stem cell transplant may now have their procedures locally at a center just for kids. This week, Florida Hospital for Children will celebrate the opening of the Kids Beating Cancer... -
Red Cross calling for blood donations
As the weather heats up every summer, blood supplies typically run low. And in this unusually hot year, supplies are even lower than usual. "It's the lowest in 15 years," says Kristen Hatfield, marketing manager for Mid-Atlantic Blood Services of the...
Tags: Marketing, Human Interest, Blood, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), American Red Cross
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Transplant of sibling's stem cells shows promise in sickle-cell fight
Ieshea Thomas, who has suffered from sickle cell anemia nearly all of her life, recently received a life-changing gift from her sister: stem cells. Her sister Ivenus' donation of stem cells in November means Thomas' body is now able to produce normally...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Chemotherapy, Diseases and Illnesses, Biotechnology, Blood
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Richard Petty: Still King of NASCAR at 75
He will climb atop of one of the team haulers Saturday night as he always does, finding solitude in the roar of 43 engines churning along Daytona's super-speedway. The moonlit skies will cast an iconic silhouette of a tall, slim man wearing sunglasses, a...
Tags: Joe Paterno, James Taylor, Cancer, Autism, Aric Almirola
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Researcher hunts for sickle cell anemia cure with gene targeting, stem cells
Halfway around the world in India, Sivaprakash Ramalingam had heard of Johns Hopkins researchers using a promising new technique for gene therapy that he hoped to integrate with stem cells to cure diseases.
After getting a doctorate in biochemistry in...Tags: Research, Diseases and Illnesses, University of Maryland, College Park, Biotechnology, Blood
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Health care reform moves ahead in Maryland, nationally
States including Maryland can move with more certainty to insure their poor, and the federal government can require others to buy health coverage after the Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's landmark health care law Thursday.
The highly...Tags: Laws, Health Care Reform (2009), Johns Hopkins University, Douglas F. Gansler, Crime, Law and Justice
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Food stamp court battle ends as state steps up on-time record
After three years of intense scrutiny, a Baltimore judge has decided that the state had done enough to get poor Marylanders signed up quickly for food stamps, medical help and cash assistance — a decision that has advocates for the poor worried that...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Laws, Baltimore County, Environmental Issues, Conservation
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Principal Who Banned 'God Bless The USA' Getting Death Threats
PIX11.com | @pix11mikeThe controversy over the songs kindergarten students will sing at their graduation from a Brooklyn school continues. First, Lee Greenwood's patriotic "God Bless the USA" was out and Justin Bieber's flirty tune "Baby" was in, but that has all changed....Tags: Justin Bieber, AIDS, Coney Island
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Retired Doctor Attacked And Carjacked
WGNO NewsA respected member of the city's medical community is recovering from a brutal attack. He and his wife were beaten and carjacked Monday, in front of their uptown home. "I hurt, my ribs hurt. If I take a deep breath it hurts. I lift my arm, it hurts,"...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cancer, Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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Fifth Disease is going around
The Kid's DoctorEven though it already feels like summer in many parts of the country, I'm seeing typical spring illnesses like Fifth disease. This is a common viral illness seen in children, often in the late winter and spring. Patients often show up with the typical...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Skin Rash, Leukemia, Cancer, Symptoms
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