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Coalition working on ballot measure to limit prescription drug abuse
Fearing lawmakers may fail to pass a package of medical reform bills, a coalition of consumer groups and trial lawyers is mounting a campaign to put before voters an even more ambitious slate of initiatives aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse and...Tags: National Government, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Hospitals and Clinics
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Peninsula practice recognized for health-care IT
Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group was recognized for its health-care information technology and the use of electronic health records. TSI Healthcare, a national leader in the sales and support of customized healthcare information technology,...
Tags: Technology, Science and Technology
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Use of alertness drug modafinil takes off, spurred by untested uses
In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial names -- Provigil and Nuvigil -- or by its plain-Jane...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cephalon Incorporated, Modafinil, Pharmaceuticals, Multiple Sclerosis
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Some doctors refusing to adopt electronic records
Under a plan first endorsed by President George W. Bush and signed into law by President Obama, the health care industry in the United States has started to change one of the signature elements in doctor's offices — switching chicken-scratched hand-...
Tags: National Government, Politics, Northampton County (Pennsylvania), Barack Obama, Pharmaceuticals
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Health Check Up: Assessing Your Risk For Breast & Ovarian Cancer
Many women today are unaware of their risk for breast and ovarian cancer. One out of every eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer sometime during their lives. Almost 300,000 women each year are diagnosed with invasive and non-invasive breast...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Colon Cancer, Health Organizations, Ovarian Cancer, Menopause
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Physician charged in domestic battery case
A physician from Cooper City was charged with domestic battery by strangulation and battery against his wife, according to a Broward sheriff's report. Michael H. Hin, 53, a state-licensed medical doctor, was arrested at home Monday. His wife told BSO...
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After death, Maryland to limit where cosmetic surgeries are performed
Maryland is moving to toughen regulations on the fast-growing medspa industry — a move designed to narrow a "loophole" and prevent deaths such as one last year following a liposuction treatment at a Timonium facility. Regulations being discussed...
Tags: Plastic Surgery Centers, Liposuction, Politics, Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgeons
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Martinsburg's founder is difficult to picture
matthewu@herald-mail.comRevolutionary War Major Gen. Adam Stephen, Martinsburg’s founder, was a rival of George Washington’s in Virginia politics before he was removed from his post in the Army, his biographer said Tuesday. Stephen’s dismissal after the...Tags: Arts and Culture, U.S. Army, University of Richmond, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Sculpture
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Dr. Howard H. Patt, surgeon
Dr. Howard H. Patt, a former Baltimore surgeon and longtime Mount Washington resident, died April 25 at Sunrise of Santa Monica, a senior living community in California, of complications from a fall. He was 95. "Howard was always a very calm, relaxed and...
Tags: Chess Playing, Randallstown, Northwest Hospital, Entertainment, Mount Vernon Place
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Hemophilia: Rare bleeding disorder has been with us since antiquity
Hemophilia is a rare bleeding disorder in which the blood doesn't clot normally. It's often called the "Royal Disease" because England's Queen Victoria (1837-1901) was a carrier of the hemophilia gene and passed the disease on to several royal families....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Hemophilia
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Cardiologist says Michael Jackson's doctor was unfit to save him
A cardiologist testified Tuesday that Michael Jackson's doctor gave his famous patient incorrect treatment when he noticed the singer had stopped breathing as a result of a powerful anesthetic the physician had administered. Dr. Daniel Wohlgelernter,...
Tags: AEG, Sex Crimes, Entertainment Events, Heart Disease, Conrad Murray
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Should doctors get random drug tests?
What if you're doctor smoked marijuana and then performed surgery on you? Not a comforting thought, but it could happen. That is why two Johns Hopkins doctors and patient safety experts say hospitals should make alcohol and drug tests mandatory for...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medical Procedures and Tests
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