Immune System

Former Orioles executive Jim Duquette to donate kidney to daughter

2012-06-03 15:31:00

The problems of a 10-year-old sound something like this. "Can I pleeeaaase have an email account?" pleads Lindsey Duquette, jumping up and down in front of her mom, Pam Duquette, in the family kitchen in Sparks. "All my friends have email." It's...

Robert J. Cotter, Johns Hopkins medical school professor

2012-11-18 14:49:00

Robert James Cotter, a Johns Hopkins scientist and professor whose work in mass spectrometry has contributed to discoveries in health and science, died last Monday of heart failure at his home at HarborView in Baltimore. He was 69. His work, which earned...

Seniors and baby boomers mark expo's silver anniversary

2012-10-09 12:04:00

The Baltimore County Baby Boomer Expo and Senior Expo 2012 will be held Wednesday, Oct. 10, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road, Timonium. The two-day event, which is marking its silver...

NIH superbug outbreak a warning for local hospitals

2012-10-07 13:26:49

Much of Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Jason Farley's recent research has focused on an evolving medical crisis: How to stop the spread of bacteria that have adapted immunity to most antibiotics. To stop it the medical community needs to track it. He's...

Maryland braces for more meningitis cases

2012-10-05 17:15:51

Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid. In the cases...

With 'Gold,' Chris Cleave braces for another reversal in fortune

2012-09-29 00:00:00

When the British author Chris Cleave published his debut novel, "Incendiary," he fell victim to perhaps the worst historical coincidence ever to afflict an author. The book, about a terrorist attack in a London sports stadium, was released on July 7,...

Blood cancers affect people of all ages

2012-09-17 11:10:00

Harford County Council joins the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in designating September as Blood Cancer Awareness Month issuing a proclamation at the Council meeting on Sept. 18. Leukemia, lymphoma (both non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma) and...

Howard County health briefs

2012-08-31 00:00:00

Healthy kids clinic Howard County General Hospital in partnership with The Mall in Columbia will host a healthy kids clinic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Center Court. The event will feature bone density, blood pressure, height,...

Transforming touch: Energy work helps animals heal themselves

2012-08-28 10:53:00

Tammy Bowers left nothing to chance when Lexie, her 8-year-old Labradoodle, was scheduled to have several cancerous tumors removed two years ago. Before surgery and again after, the Howard County resident made appointments for Lexie to see Shari...

Health officials set 'low threshold' for treatment to battle meningitis outbreak

2012-10-10 17:37:00

Hundreds of Marylanders may need spinal taps as public health leaders seek to rein in a fungal meningitis outbreak that continues to expand as more is learned about the unusual cases. Health officials said Wednesday that they still are working to contact...

Whooping cough making a comeback in Md., U.S.

2012-08-15 16:15:00

Public health officials are warning adults and adolescents to get booster shots in the wake of an unusually large number of cases of whooping cough this year around the nation and in Maryland. More than 20,000 cases of the respiratory disease were...

Embracing vegetables

2012-09-18 09:06:00

Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post. This week, Debra Schulze, RD, LDN, weighs in on vegetables. Did you know there are more than 200 varieties of fruits and vegetables? While praised as a "good...

Swartz studies how biologic fluids move through tissue and how that movement affects human health. This work helps explain how the immune system responds to tumors, and how tumors resist cellular attack.

2012-10-01 14:49:00

Treat it: Ice it and take an antihistamine like Benadryl or rub hydrocortisone cream on the bite to stop the itching. Head to the doctor if: In extremely rare conditions, some people will have problems breathing or feel sick or faint 3 to 14 days after being bitten.

2012-06-27 23:44:08

Lexy Becker gathers Easter eggs with her younger brother, Nicholas at their home in Aberdeen on Saturday. Lexy, who recently had a bone marrow transplant in Minneapolis, returned to Aberdeen for the Easter weekend. She is wearing a mask because her immune system is still weakened.

2012-04-07 21:11:00