Meningitis

Closing deadly loopholes

2013-03-25 03:00:00

In July, authorities discovered that a radiology technician who had worked in Maryland and several other states had been injecting himself with narcotics-filled syringes, refilling them with saline and leaving them behind for use on patients. More than 1,...

More than a dozen cases of mumps suspected at Loyola

2013-03-14 15:50:46

A dozen or more cases of mumps have been reported among Loyola University Maryland students over the past month, prompting officials to alert the campus community to signs of the rare virus that has spread rapidly across college campuses in recent...

Firm at center of fungal meningitis outbreak files for bankruptcy

2012-12-21 16:49:41

The pharmacy at the center of a fungal meningitis outbreak that has hit 19 states said Friday it has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Massachusetts. The New England Compounding Center also said it plans to establish a fund to compensate those affected...

After whirlwind year, Manny Machado feels at home in Orioles clubhouse

2013-02-15 16:51:00

SARASOTA, Fla. — Around this time last year, Manny Machado spent his spring on a nomadic journey shuffling between the Orioles' minor league and major league camps. He wore No. 95. When he made appearances in the major league camp, he dressed in...

Hand-Foot-Mouth menace

2013-02-11 08:25:00

When Jonah Posner developed a fever last spring, his mother, Tracy, didn’t think much of it.�The then-2-year-old was eating, drinking and sleeping as he usually did. “He had no other symptoms besides the fever,” Tracy Posner says....

Loyola student diagnosed with bacterial meningitis

2013-02-07 09:58:00

A Loyola University Maryland undergraduate student is at a local hospital recovering from bacterial meningitis, a school spokesman said Thursday. The student was taken to the emergency room of the unnamed hospital Wednesday after being examined at the...

In meningitis outbreak, fear lingers for patients with few answers

2013-01-06 13:40:00

A national outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a tainted steroid killed two Marylanders. Nearly two dozen people living with the disease and hundreds of others who may have been exposed fear they may be next. Sheila Smelkinson began suffering in...

No further precautions at school amid possible meningitis death

2012-12-13 07:13:00

Anne Arundel County Public School officials said on Thursday the county Department of Health has not recommended additional cleaning steps to be taken amid the Tuesday death of a Glen Burnie High School junior, who had become ill the day before with...

Glen Burnie High junior dies from meningitis-like symptoms

2012-12-12 16:15:00

A junior at Glen Burnie High School in Anne Arundel County died Tuesday after becoming ill the day before with symptoms associated with bacterial meningitis, school officials said Wednesday. A letter was sent home to students' parents Wednesday...

Fallston man died of fungal meningitis

2012-12-12 14:20:00

John C. "Jack" Millhausen, an 84-year-old Fallston resident, is at least the second Marylander to die of fungal meningitis in a national epidemic that experts say is slowing but about which many questions remain. Millhausen died Nov. 15 at Gilchrist...

Mikulski poised to become Senate committee chair

2012-12-18 16:33:16

Behind-the-scenes jostling for committee chairmanships in the U.S. Senate has left Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski poised to take over the Senate Intelligence Committee — a move experts said Tuesday could bolster the role cybersecurity plays in...

Owen Brown resident advocates a healthy dialogue on wellness

2012-12-30 10:50:00

Bob Duggan frequently refers to "our national disease-care system" when he talks about his new book, employing a term he has used across his 40-plus years as a healing-arts clinician and educator. As co-founder and former president of Tai Sophia...

Casey Hayden speaks about his partner Rjay Spoon, in photo at left, who died of bacterial meningitis, as Michael Weinstein, right, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation listens during a news conference in West Hollywood.

2013-04-16 00:00:00

Adam Casey, 29, receives an injection. An outbreak of the disease in New York has infected two dozen people and killed seven in recent years.

2013-04-15 22:30:00

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation ordered 1,000 doses of the vaccine and will have more coming. Last weekend, a West Hollywood lawyer died after contracting bacterial meningitis.

2013-04-15 22:28:00