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September 2, 2010, 9:28 pm
A father and son team are spending the next 14 days hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro in Arusha, Tanzania to raise money for juvenile diabetes.
Matthew R. Weir, director of the division of nephrology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and his son, M. Ryan Weir, a business banking officer for M&T Bank in Towson, began their journey Thursday and plan to finish on Sept. 16.
The pair became interested in diabetes research after a close family friend was diagnosed with Type 1 of the disease and almost went into a coma.
“It was an eye-opening experience,” M. Ryan Weir said. The Weirs hope to raise a dollar for every foot of the 19,341-foot ascent they climb. The money will go towards research for the Maryland chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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August 31, 2010, 3:00 am
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the federal judge who halted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to lift his injunction while it appeals the ruling.
That ruling roiled researchers around the nation and locally, who had won federal grants for research. They weren’t sure if they could touch experiments in their labs aimed at finding treatments for many kinds of disease.
The Obama administration had allowed many more stem cell lines to be used for research than the Bush administration. But the ruling last week by Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia potentially put all of the lines off limits. He cited a 1996 law that barred the destruction of embryos during research.
A collection of groups had filed suit, many who didn’t want embryos destroyed. But
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August 28, 2010, 1:34 pm
The government team responsible for all those statistics about Americans’ health and eating habits are in Baltimore for the next several weeks collecting data – but officials say the turnout has been below average so far.
The CDC’s 50-year-old National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey randomly selected the city as one of 15 it will visit this year and sent out notices to hundreds of residents also chosen randomly. Officials want about 370 of them to come for comprehensive testing and surveying in their four-trailer clinic set up Harbor East.
Participants get thousands of dollars worth of tests taken and interpreted by doctors, so people can learn, for example, if they have asthma, diabetes, brittle bones and bad teeth. They a
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August 26, 2010, 7:42 pm
Need an X-ray or stitches?
Online, via text message or flashing on a billboard, some emergency rooms are advertising how long the dreaded wait for care will be, with estimates updated every few minutes. It’s a marketing move aimed at less urgent patients, not the true emergencies that automatically go to the front of the line anyway and shouldn’t waste precious minutes checking the wait.
“If you’re in a car accident, you’re not going to flip open your iPhone and see what the wait times are,” cautions Dr. Sandra Schneider, president-elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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The Detroit Medical Center is among the few major health systems in Metro Detroit to embrace the approach. The DMC began posting wait times at its five emergency departments on its website in March and has since expanded the updates to cell phones.
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August 24, 2010, 12:28 pm
Advocacy group Maryland Health Care For All! Coalition released a book today chronicling the stories of 40 people or families who have benefited from changes in the states healthcare policies in the last several years.
The book, “Faces of Maryland’s Newly Insured,” looks at people who have gotten access to insurance through reform made in the state’s healthcare system since 2007.
Some of the changes include legislation that expanded coverage to low-income adults and grants to small businesses to offer coverage to their employees. A cigarette tax funded many of the changes.
The stories include that of Linda of Central Maryland who was able to get insurance for her whole family under the Medical Assistance for Families program and the Maryland Children’s Health Program after her husband lost his job.
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