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Understanding the new prostate cancer screening recommendations
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent advisory panel, recently recommended that healthy men not be given PSA blood tests to detect prostate cancer. But that won't mean the end of diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the most common...Tags: Radiation Therapy, Erectile Dysfunction, Urinary Incontinence, Prostate Cancer, Entertainment Events
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Progress in Hepatitis C research
Hepatitis C has long been a problem with a low rate of cure. But new drug therapies are in use and others are on the horizon, according to Dr. Paul J. Thuluvath, chief of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center and the medical director of the Institute...Tags: Inflammation, Food and Drug Administration, Vaccines, Chemical Industry, Cirrhosis
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Week of Father's Day puts spotlight on men's health
It's Men's Health Week, and public health officials are encouraging men to pay more attention to their bodies. Not only should they be paying more attention to little changes that don't seem right, they should be getting annual checkups. Diseases common...Tags: Lower Back Pain, Testicular Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Father's Day, Human Body
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Baltimore's Theatre Project is still radical at 40
The headline on a 1972 article in The Baltimore Sun neatly summed up the recently formed Theatre Project: "New and radical — and free."
Today, the intimate venue on Preston Street still offers plenty of theatrical experiences that qualify as new...Tags: University of Maryland Baltimore County, Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Fine Arts, Weaponry
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More than 250 tickets sold for Doleman Black Heritage Museum's fourth annual Fall Fundraiser
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comThe family and friends of the late Marguerite Doleman, who founded and operated an African-American museum in her North Locust Street home, turned out by the hundreds Saturday night to support finding a permanent site for the artifacts that took her...Tags: John P Donoghue, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Arts and Culture, Howard University
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Democrats oppose new congressional map
A chorus of Democratic officials concerned about minority voters in the Washington suburbs said Tuesday that they oppose the new congressional districts proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley's redistricting commission, setting up a key battle as the General...Tags: Government, Laws, Dereck E Davis, Regional Authority, Catherine E. Pugh
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50 picture-perfect fall getaways
As summer's fleeting charms begin to fade, fall swirls into view in a burst of kaleidoscopic color. Relish autumn's arrival with 50 nifty travel ideas for the Mid-Atlantic region: from leaf peeping and leisurely drives, to museum-hopping, fall-inspired...Tags: Oyster Festival, Climbing, Halloween, Colonial Williamsburg, Movies
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Tumultuous decades for a housing-aid activist
Vincent Quayle knows the corrosive effect of foreclosures well, sitting as he does at the helm of a nonprofit group that helps homeowners in trouble.
But he says the current foreclosure crisis is nothing compared to the damage wrought by the...Tags: Real Estate Sellers, Condos and Houses, Elections, Financial and Business Services, Government
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'The Wire' has ended, but its talent is still being tapped
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.
The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally....Tags: Movies, Laura Linney, Celebrities and Health Issues, Idris Elba, Game of Thrones (tv program)
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Iowa group to fund suit against Maryland's congressional map
An Iowa-based foundation is financing a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn Maryland's new congressional map on the grounds that it unconstitutionally splits minority communities. Christopher Rants, a Republican former speaker of the Iowa House who...Tags: Elections, Government, Regional Authority, Martin O'Malley, Judges
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Start the Presses: Memories of New York
Anniversaries are strange. At once vitally important and arbitrary, they purport only to mark time, but immobility bind us to our past. With that in mind, I want to share a piece I wrote in New York on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The...Tags: Morningside Heights, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, September 11, 2001 Attacks, New York City, Manhattan (New York City)
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MLB transcript of Ken Griffey Jr. Commissioner's Award presentation
This is the transcript, as provided by Major League Baseball, of the press conference Sunday in which Ken Griffey Jr. was given the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award in Arlington, Texas, before Game 4 of the World Series. Harold Reynolds, who was...Tags: Rickey Henderson, World Series, Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Ricky Watters
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