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Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk
Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. Compared to those conceived...Tags: Urinary System, Infertility, Genes and Chromosomes, Cornell University, Birth Defects
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Innocence A Novel Louis B. Jones Counterpoint: 160 pp., $14.95 paper The plot of Louis B. Jones' new novel seems to promise an antic, postmodern free-for-all: A middle-aged former Episcopalian priest, now employed in Marin County real estate, takes...
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Jarnetta Kroh, philanthropist
Jarnetta Kroh, a Greater Baltimore Medical Center philanthropist who assisted her husband in his import car servicing business, died Nov. 25 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder at her home in Laguna Hills, Calif. She was 81 and had lived in the...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Dundalk, Automotive Equipment, Timonium, Colon Cancer
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Weigh pros and cons of 2 new diet drugs
Weight-loss drugs have so far been a complete bust. But they may be verging on a comeback, now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved two new prescription diet pills for the first time in more than a decade. Both weight-loss medications...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Migraine, Belviq, George Washington University, Food and Drug Administration
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On the Town: A musical celebration of Thanksgiving Eve
Presented for several decades, the Thanksgiving Eve service at All Saints Church attracted about 200 Pasadena residents with a spiritual bent. Rector J. Edwin Bacon Jr. led the service. On Nov. 21 the church's sanctuary was full of candles, flowers and...
Tags: Thanksgiving, Sexual and Reproductive Organs, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Canterbury, Religion and Belief
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Medical nomads change lives
When Dr. Bruce Ascough pulls up to a Red Cross hospital in Mexico, there usually are dozens of people with deformities and other ailments lined up to see him and other doctors, hoping they can change their lives for the better and emerge from a life of...
Tags: Nursing, Plastic Surgeons, American Red Cross, Medical Specialization, Chest
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Eileen M. O'Hagan, advocate
Eileen M. O'Hagan, a homemaker and advocate for children with cleft lips and cleft palates, died of cancer May 18 at her Cockeysville home. She was 73.
Born Eileen Gayo in Baltimore and raised on Eierman Avenue, she attended the Shrine of the Little...Tags: Human Interest, Birth Defects, Cancer, Religion and Belief, Health
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Students plan concert to benefit Smile Train
Petoskey High School student council members Carter Cohen and Kelly Ronquist will present a benefit concert on Friday, June 1, to raise funds for the Smile Train, a charity that raises money to provide surgeries to people with cleft lips or palates....
Tags: Social Issues, Entertainment Events, Teaching and Learning, Smile Pinki (movie), Academy Awards
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Pangborn students raise funds for Project Smile
The art students of teacher Andy Iverson at Pangborn Elementary School recently participated in Project Smile. The purpose of Project Smile was to raise money and awareness for the charity Operation Smile. Operation Smile helps provide surgery for...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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