Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Dr. Lorenz E. and Anastasia U. Zimmerman

2013-03-30 11:38:00

Dr. Lorenz E. Zimmerman, the founder of modern ophthalmic pathology, who spent his nearly 60-year career studying diseases of the eye, died March 16 of complications from an infection at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 92. His wife...

Dr. Don-Neil Brotman, dentist

2013-02-25 12:41:41

Dr. Don-Neil Brotman, a retired Baltimore dentist and a pilot, died Feb. 16 of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Pikesville resident was 80. Born and raised in Baltimore, Dr. Brotman was a 1949 graduate of City College, and after attending...

Mikulski, VA secretary pledge added staff, training in Baltimore

2013-02-19 18:37:45

The Baltimore office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation's worst performer in processing disability claims, will receive more employee training, an influx of senior staff and a new digital processing system ahead of schedule, under a...

Soldier who lost all limbs in Iraq gets double arm transplant

2013-01-29 10:55:00

A soldier who lost all of his limbs in the Iraq War received double arm transplants at Johns Hopkins Hospital last month in a rare procedure that has already begun to restore some normalcy to his life. Hopkins doctors are to speak in detail about the...

Dr. Kraig Scot Bower joins Wilmer Eye in Bel Air

2012-08-27 11:35:00

Kraig Scot Bower, M.D., F.A.C.S, the director of refractive surgery at The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Bel Air (formerly Parris-Castoro Eye Care Center). Bower is...

Helping veterans to recover with hunting

2012-08-11 12:50:00

There was a time before the three heart attacks, before he was effectively paralyzed in the lower half of his left leg, when Army Spc. Stephen Ramsey wouldn't do much on his Georgia farm other than pick cotton and peanuts, and hunt. Actually, he can...

Consumers can donate hotel reward points to families of wounded veterans

2012-07-16 14:34:00

Consumers can donate hotel reward points to wounded warriors and their families starting today. The "Hotels for Heroes" program, created by bipartisan federal legislation passed in December, is designed to defray travel costs of wounded veterans being...

Montgomery Co. kayaker hopes third Olympics will be the charm

2012-06-30 11:59:00

Scott Parsons keeps going. Long after the older brother he idolized growing up in Ohio quit his own competitive kayak racing career, long after the best friend he met through their kayaking families did the same, Parsons is like Peter Pan in a wet suit,...

Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., head of nuclear medicine at Mercy

2012-07-26 14:03:09

Dr. William Allan Dear Jr., an internist and former head of the division of nuclear medicine at Mercy Medical Center who also was a practicing magician, died July 20 of heart disease at Union Memorial Hospital. The longtime Guilford resident was 80. "He...

Marine gets rare spinal surgery to stop pain in his arm

2012-07-31 16:50:00

A foot and half separated Marc Burleson from the buried bomb he was trying to defuse last December in a narrow alleyway of a small Afghanistan village. The bomb exploded, mutilating the Marine's face, ripping off part of his right arm, paralyzing his...

Federal security contractor to lay off 93 in Maryland

2012-08-09 13:27:00

A Florida-based federal security contractor warned that it would lay off nearly 100 people at two government facilities in Maryland by the end of September as a result of Army contracts that are not being renewed. G4S Government Solutions Inc., which...

Gala to raise funds for homes away from home for family of wounded military

2012-06-21 15:42:12

Dale I. Beatty vividly remembers his first glimpse of a Fisher House, a home away from home for wounded troops and their families. The former North Carolina Army National Guard staff sergeant had lost both legs in an explosion in Iraq in 2004 and was...

President Barack Obama signs the prosthetic arm of Sgt. Carlos Evans, USMC, after greeting wounded warriors in the East Room during their tour of the White House, March 6, 2012.

2012-04-09 00:00:00

Hotelier Harris Rosen, a U.S. Army veteran, has supported many military organizations. In 2010, he visited wounded warriors at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

2012-01-06 15:38:04

Army Spc. Tamarra J. Ramos, 24, of Haycock Township died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. While serving in Egypt in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq, she was diagnosed with cancer . She was assigned to the 3rd Armor Medical Company, Medical Troop Regimental Support Squadron,

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