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Tatyana McFadden: Howard County's 'Lady Velocity'
World-class track athlete Tatyana McFadden is not a flashy person. Soft-spoken with a thin face, dark brown eyes and a deceptively muscular frame, she is not the type to speak of her accomplishments without some prompting. But when she does talk about her...
Tags: Girl Scouts of the USA, Spina Bifida, Sports, College Sports, BP Plc
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CDC still listening to youth vaccination debate
Mediators were dispatched to help keep the conversation civil at a health forum in Chicago last week — a clear sign of the passionate opinions elicited by the debate about whether the federal government should recommend that babies be vaccinated...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Childhood Diseases and Illnesses, Diseases and Illnesses, Politics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Mental illness redefined
When psychiatrists diagnose mental illness, they turn to an unwieldy book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short.
First published in 1952, the tome also is used as a standard by researchers, the health...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Brain, Hospitals and Clinics, Anxiety
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A new you: Post-mastectomy options
It had taken some years for Nicole McLean to embrace her God-given breasts, ample at size H cups. So when, at 39, she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer and told, despite her adamant protests, that mastectomy was the best option, McLean never...Tags: Breast Augmentation, Human Body, Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses, Breast Cancer
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Young girl loses feet in mower accident
It's a parent's worst nightmare. A father from Forest Hill accidentally backed his lawn mower into his five-year-old daughter, severing her feet. The accident happened at about 6:30 p.m. Monday when many in the neighborhood were out doing evening yard...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Kensington
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Lawnmower accidents common in the summer
I wrote today about a 5-year-old Harford County girl who lost her feet after her father accidently backed into her with a lawn mower. It is an accident that could have been prevented, but one that is not all that uncommon in the summer months....
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Injuries and Wounds, Health
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Facts to know about diabetes
With so much health information readily available, it’s often hard for the nearly 26 million Americans living with diabetes to separate fact from fiction. Here are some facts you should know if you have diabetes. — Diabetes is a serious...
Tags: Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, Health and Medical Professionals, Healthy Diet, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Nutrition and type 2 diabetes prevention
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog Picture of Health (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth), which is reprinted here. This week, Amanda Tauber weighs in on type 2...Tags: Nutrition, Overweight, Human Body, Insulin, Heart Disease
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Alert: 10 bike-related recalls
The Chain Gang - Orlando SentinelFrom the Consumer Product Safety Commission, these alerts: Bridgeway Bicycles (91,000 units) The bicycle chain can break, causing a rider to lose control and fall. Trek 2012 FX and District bicycles (27,000 units) The bolt that secures the seat saddle... -
UPDATE: 17-year-old from Zambia gets free surgery
ReporterAn update now on a story we first brought to you a couple of weeks ago. A 17-year-old boy from the African country of Zambia is getting life saving surgery Friday in one of our hometowns. Orphan Medical Network International and another organization...Tags: Zambia, Hospitals and Clinics, Africa, Lymphatic filariasis, Health
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Student recounts moments before driver crashed into bridge
Two Lighthouse Charter School students remained hospitalized at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health Monday evening, following a fatal bus crash that killed 5-year-old Donasty Smith and bus driver Thomas Spencer, 60.
Ten of the 50 students on the...Tags: Ben Savage, Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Students
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How the Civil War was waged
Even in a great collection of Civil War artifacts, the gold pocket watch owned by legendary Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson would be ranked as a treasure. So would Southern cavalry commander J.E.B. Stuart's 6-shot, .36-caliber Navy...
Tags: John Brown, Wars and Interventions, Museums, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Culture
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