Prostate Cancer

Howard County health briefs

2013-06-14 00:00:00

Look good, feel better This free program teaches beauty techniques to women with cancer to help them combat appearance-related side effects of treatment. Participants receive cosmetics donated by major manufacturers as well as instruction and suggestions...

Bereaved Parents meets third Wednesdays

2013-06-13 08:44:00

These groups meet regularly. Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group — Third Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., at Lighthouse Senior Living at Ellicott City, 3100 N. Ridge Road, Ellicott City. 410-465-2288. Bereaved Parents, USA — Third Wednesday, 8 p.m....

Robert Lee Lyles Jr. of Annapolis, former Md. Health Care Commission member

2013-06-02 17:35:00

Robert Lee Lyles Jr., who had two careers in his 69 years and excelled at each, died May 27 at his home in Annapolis. A scientist, physician and state policy adviser, Dr. Lyles "was a modern renaissance man with a tremendous curiosity," said Gene Ransom,...

Outlook changing for PSA screening

2013-06-01 19:52:00

For nearly a quarter-century, doctors have ordered annual PSA tests for men of a certain age to screen for prostate cancer, despite a lack of evidence that its benefits outweigh the risks — especially when tiny, slow-growing tumors were detected....

Anne Arundel County health briefs

2013-06-07 00:00:00

Summer health, safety tips The Department of Health offers sun and water safety tips, Lyme disease information for prevention and detection, as well as food safety recommendations designed to reduce the risk of food-borne illnesses at picnics,...

Laurel Relay for Life is a walk through the night

2013-05-21 03:00:00

Nancy Becraft has a T-shirt from each year Laurel has held a Relay for Life, and has witnessed the growth of the event since the first relay in 1999. "We only started out with about 11 teams," Becraft said. This year there are 40 teams, and counting....

Columbia lung cancer survivor finds voice with 5K fundraiser

2013-04-17 03:00:00

When Columbia resident Michael Osborne was diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer in April of 2008, one prevailing thought kept running through his mind. "I was devastated because, to me, lung cancer meant you were dead," Osborne said. "That's what I knew...

Dr. Edward L. "Mac" McDill, Hopkins professor

2013-05-03 13:28:51

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...

Time to play golf to raise money for a good cause [Owings Mills]

2013-04-09 05:00:00

Spring is the time of rebirth and renewal . For some, that means tee time and a chance to be outdoors, unwinding from the stresses of everyday life. If golf is your sport of choice, then you need to check out the Zero Prostate Cancer Golf Classic. This...

Richard R. Rubin, Hopkins psychologist

2013-04-04 13:04:35

Dr. Richard R. Rubin, a Johns Hopkins psychologist who counseled children and adults on how to cope with the emotional effects of diabetes, died of complications from prostate cancer March 25 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Monkton resident was 69....

Richard Oare, attorney

2013-04-01 14:21:07

Richard Oare, an attorney who successfully defended the the mayor of York, Pa., on a decades-old murder charge dating to a 1969 race riot, died of prostate cancer March 26 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The White Hall resident was 68. Born John...

Chesapeake Urology Associates' Sankar Kausik, Named Chief of Urology for Upper Chesapeake Medical Center

2013-03-25 08:25:59

Chesapeake Urology Associates, P.A., one of the nation's largest urology groups, has announced Dr. Sankar Kausik, M.D., F.A.C.S., has been named Chief of Urology for the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, part of Upper Chesapeake Health, an affiliate...

The American Urological Assn.'s new guidelines on prostate cancer screening urge men to think twice before getting a PSA test.

2013-05-14 11:49:42

Men who have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep are more likely to develop prostate cancer, according to a new study.

2013-05-07 16:32:31

Caregiver Mary Kirakosian writes the names of her loved ones who were cancer survivors during Relay for Life, which took place at Johnny Carson Park in Burbank on Saturday, May 4, 2013. Relay for Life benefits the American Cancer Society. "This is one event I cannot pass," she says.

2013-05-04 00:00:00