Health Organizations

More suffer from hearing loss than expected, study shows

2011-12-03 12:49:00

One in five Americans has significant hearing loss, far more than previously thought, according to new research that has scientists warning of an impending public health threat. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University say the growing number of...

Men Making a Difference: Mark Gregory

2011-12-12 07:00:00

Mark Gregory remembers. He remembers dates. There was the day after Thanksgiving in 1989, when doctors found a tumor near his brain. Then there was July 26, 1991, when Gregory, who’d been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, underwent a bone marrow...

Obama's Plan B decision puts girls at risk

2011-12-12 15:56:30

A society is at its worst when it leaves its most vulnerable citizens exposed so that its most powerful can hide from ugly realities. In the case of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' ruling to reject the Food and Drug Administration's...

Monkton nurse returns from Zambia

2011-12-16 12:58:00

While her family feasted on turkey, Monkton resident Karen Starr spent Thanksgiving day stranded in an airport at Ndola, Zambia. After 11 days of African food and water, she was very sick and she was dead tired. Even so, Starr, who is now back home,...

Anxious Marylanders wait to see if Congress will act

2011-12-04 14:58:00

Failure of the congressional "supercommittee" to strike a deal on deficit reduction has left lawmakers scrambling to address a half-dozen bills of major importance to Marylanders, from extending tax breaks to paying Medicare doctors to securing federal...

Bahrain's brave health care workers deserve support

2011-11-28 06:13:00

The United States continues to ignore the thwarted Arab Spring in Bahrain. Recently, a quasi-military court in the small Gulf state sentenced 20 doctors and nurses to up to 15 years in jail. The charge against them? Treating injured demonstrators opposing...

A pregnant woman with HIV, and the cost of U.S. foreign aid cuts

2011-11-21 03:00:00

When I met a woman I'll call "Mary" in Luwingu, a remote district in northern Zambia, she had already seen three of her children die. She did not know that she had contracted HIV until she arrived at the clinic where for the past few months I had been...

Local growers, retailers try to reassure cantaloupe eaters after listeria outbreak

2011-09-29 18:00:00

Local melon growers and retailers are trying to reassure consumers after listeria linked to cantaloupe from a Colorado farm killed 13 people across the country, including one in Maryland — the deadliest foodborne outbreak in more than a decade....

Ravens plan Breast Cancer Awareness Month initiatives

2011-09-30 07:24:00

Country music superstar Martina McBride will sing the national anthem before Sunday's Ravens-Jets nationally televised game and she will be joined by breast cancer survivors and those undergoing treatment. It's part of the Ravens' effort to help...

Turn life sciences research into jobs

2011-10-04 12:00:31

The Dow takes another tumble, there is one more lackluster report on unemployment, and attention in Maryland turns once again to how to improve the local economy. There have been well-intentioned efforts to stimulate the economy, but there is also an...

Ellicott City: Three church choirs fight cancer with Relay for Life benefit concert

2011-10-09 00:00:00

Jim Piersall is the captain of the Howard County Angels For A Cure — a church based team for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life fundraiser. It is an annual event where participants camp out overnight at local parks or high schools and take...

Health advocates seek increase in tobacco tax

2011-10-11 15:48:47

After successfully pushing a new dime-a-drink alcohol tax, health care advocates are advocating for a new $1 levy on tobacco. That would bring the total to $3 for a pack of cigarettes, among the highest in the nation. A coalition led by the Maryland...

A woman talks on her mobile phone next to a giant red ribbon displayed outside the World Health Organization regional office during World Aids Day in Manila.

2011-12-01 00:00:00

Alan D. Lev has been named chairman of the American Cancer Society's Illinois Division board of directors. Lev starts his two-year term as the society's senior non-medical volunteer official in Illinois immediately. He will oversee the organization's volunteer governance and activities in the state.

2011-10-31 00:00:00

Anne M. Murphy has been selected as senior vice president of legal affairs and general counsel for Rush University Medical Center. Murphy comes to Rush from the Chicago law firm of Holland & Knight, where she is a partner and chair of the firm�s Chicago health care and life sciences team.

2011-10-26 00:00:00