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Bracelet-like device treats acid reflux
It looks like an expensive bracelet, but the contraption laced in titanium beads gets placed around the esophagus rather than the wrist. The LINX Reflux Management System is a new treatment for acid reflux, a digestive order that causes heartburn,...
Tags: Anne Arundel Medical Center, Hospitals and Clinics
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Mossburg misrepresents research on housing vouchers
In her April 23 column, “Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor,” Marta H. Mossburg quoted me as saying that laws prohibiting landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers “exacerbate” the problem of finding housing...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Stamford, Interior Policy, Discrimination, Politics
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Dr. Edward L. "Mac" McDill, Hopkins professor
Edward L. "Mac" McDill, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University's sociology department who was also the founding director of the Hopkins Center for Social Organization of Schools, died April 25 of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Sociology, Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Organizations
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Peabody director Sharkey to step down
After seven years as director of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Jeffrey Sharkey is stepping down. He will remain with the conservatory until a successor is named. "So much of what I hoped to accomplish I feel I have accomplished,...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, France, Heart Failure, Syracuse University, U.S. Army
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READER SUBMITTED: Saint Francis Receives Top Honors For Patient Safety Three Consecutive Years
HartfordSaint Francis Hospital and Medical Center was again honored with an "A" Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The A score was awarded in the latest...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Corporate Officers, Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics
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Renaissance for North Avenue as arts district
When Christa Daring was a student, she rode a bus from her Waverly home and crossed North Avenue on her way to classes at the Baltimore School for the Arts. "This was always oh-so no-man's land," she said of the commercial crosstown street that is...
Tags: Arts, Baltimore School for the Arts, Dining and Drinking, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Vegetarian Diet
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Five questions for Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee cut his teeth on public-private partnerships 26 years ago as a Lehman Brothers executive in charge of financing projects in Asia. He put together a consortium of local investors to build a $1.8 billion, 12-mile toll road in Bangkok....
Tags: Government, Maryland Department of Transportation, Executive Branch, Port of Baltimore, Company Privatization
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Can a supplement reverse graying hair?
During her post-divorce reinvention, Judy Allor decided to do something about the gray hair that had been coming in at her temples and around her ears since her early 50s. Highlights didn't seem to take — so when Allor saw an advertisement in...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Real Estate Sellers, Dietary Supplements, Newspaper and Magazine, Real Estate Buyers
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William F. Childs III, engineer
William F. Childs III, a retired engineer who was an early salesman of do-it-yourself cement products, died of complications from heart disease April 23 at his Towson home. He was 95 and lived for many years in Stoneleigh. Born in Salisbury, he was a...
Tags: Annapolis, Anglicanism, Science and Technology, Christianity, Heart Disease
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Awards and honors for Lehigh Valley residents
The Hellertown - Lower Saucon Chamber of Commerce's 91st banquet will be held 5-8 p.m. May 31at Silver Creek Country Club. Those being honored include: Josh Popichak, editor of the Hellertown-Lower Saucon PATCH, was selected to receive the Community...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Health and Medical Professionals
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William H. Hoffman, engineer
William H. Hoffman, a retired U.S. Food and Drug Administration official, died Monday from septic shock after kidney transplant surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The longtime Ellicott City resident was 81. William Harry Hoffman was...
Tags: Engineering, Woodlawn (Bronx, New York), Washington, DC, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Army
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