Chemical Industry

Biological psychiatry's false paradigm

2013-06-18 11:20:38

Days before the official May 22 publication date of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM-5), a number of psychiatrists who were closely associated with the project scrambled to do some preemptory damage control, mostly by...

Tax pollution, not rain

2013-06-15 11:00:00

I feel the stormwater fee has failed to achieve its goal which is to reduce the pollution that makes it into the Chesapeake Bay ("Churches seek break on city stormwater fee," June 12). The current implementation of the stormwater fee unfairly fines...

Ban on patenting DNA cheers researchers

2013-06-13 18:31:51

Researchers hailed the Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that bans the patenting of human DNA, saying it would expand access to genetic testing for disease at lower cost to patients. In a unanimous decision, the justices said Myriad Genetics did not have...

Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it

2013-06-10 07:45:00

Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...

DNA: a test for justice

2013-06-10 03:00:00

In two courts, half a country apart, judges last month grappled with the reliability of testimony and forensic hair evidence analysis that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents provided in criminal trials decades ago. John Norman Huffington, imprisoned...

Court's DNA decision serves public safety and justice

2013-06-03 10:26:00

The Supreme Court's decision today to uphold Maryland's law allowing the collection of DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes upholds the interests of justice, the Constitution and common sense. Concerns that the DNA samples could violate...

DNA testing isn't like taking fingerprints

2013-06-07 10:30:00

The Sun's reasoning regarding the recent ruling on DNA collection is severely flawed ("Court is right on DNA," June 4). DNA is not 21st-century fingerprinting, and it does more than identify a person. It's likely there is yet undetermined information...

U.S. Supreme Court authorizes post-arrest DNA collection

2013-06-03 16:28:00

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police in Maryland and elsewhere can continue the warrantless collection of DNA from people arrested — but not convicted — of serious crimes. The 5-4 decision upheld a state law that allows...

Giant Food introduces prescription savings card

2013-06-06 04:30:00

Giant Food has launched a prescription card that’s good for discounts on prescriptions and other health-related products. The grocer’s Prescription Savings Card is not an insurance plan. But customers who pay a $10 enrollment fee to sign...

Five questions with … Dr. Eddy C. Agbo

2013-05-24 16:51:00

Hundreds of thousands of people die of malaria every year, most of them in Africa. Dr. Eddy C. Agbo wants people to get diagnosed quickly and easily — right in their homes — so they can seek treatment. The barrier to quick and easy diagnoses...

Hopkins' global health grade: good, but not good enough

2013-05-21 09:40:00

Remember the last time you got a B in a class? Maybe a B was OK, a hard-earned accomplishment in a difficult, GPA-sinking course. Or perhaps a B just wasn't good enough — a subpar finish that left you mentally shaking a fist at other classmates....

Trial of woman accused in death of quadriplegic husband begins

2013-05-21 14:08:00

The prosecution in the murder trial of an Ellicott City woman�will attempt to prove she is responsible in the 2011 death of her quadriplegic husband,�stating the man's life "was ended at the hands of his wife," according to spokesman Wayne Kirwan. The...

After issuing safety warnings to diabetics taking the blockbuster drug Avandia, the FDA is defending research conducted by the company showing the drug to be safe. Some critics think the agency's review is a whitewash.

2013-06-05 16:09:51

As the leading health authority on medications, pharmacists have become more involved in recent years in gauging the use and effectiveness of medication, patients� medication use patterns and alternative therapies.

2013-05-20 07:53:00

Baltimore, MD--May 15, 2013--This is Eddy C. Agbo, Chairman and CEO of Fyodor Biotechnologies Corporation. Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun

2013-05-15 00:00:00