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New Hopkins hospital takes an artful approach to health care
When Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opens its new, $1.1 billion building Tuesday, sick children will find a cobalt cow with legs the color of grass and a butter-colored head floating above their heads, poised to jump over a fanciful "moon." The new...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health Insurance, Artists, Cancer, Grant Wood
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How often do you really need dental X-rays?
Every six months like clockwork, Melissa O'Brien takes her two children, Alexandra and Evan, to the dentist for a cleaning. They're nearly perfect patients — Alexandra, 13, has no cavities, and Evan, 10, has had only one — but O'Brien suspects...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Harvard University, X-rays, Tooth Decay, CNN (tv network)
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University of Maryland Medical School to open proton center
The University of Maryland School of Medicine has begun construction of a $200 million proton center that will bring the latest in cancer treatment to the region and double investment in the University of Maryland's growing BioPark in West Baltimore....Tags: Investments, Medical Research, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland Medical School, Radiation Therapy
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The fight that counts: Breast cancer survivors help coordinate local Relay for Life
ben@theinteriorjournal.comEditor's note: A previous version of this story listed incorrect dates and location for the 2012 Lincoln County Relay for Life event. The event is June 8-9 at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds. Mary Ann May and Judy Atwood Jones are both breast cancer...Tags: Medical Research, Human Interest, Relay for Life, Mammogram, Cancer
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Fun Facts About New Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital
Construction is underway on the new 263,000-square-foot Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. The five-story building with an additional floor below ground will be built adjacent to the Medical Center's main entrance. The facility will include pediatric...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Boeing Co., Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Politics
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Electronic health records mean fewer tests: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors order fewer lab tests when they have access to a patient's electronic medical records, according to a new study, but the efficiency may be confined to state-of-the-art records exchanges for now. The new study is...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Electronics, Hospitals and Clinics
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Unnecessary medicine: Physician groups list 45 overused tests, procedures
Should you get a cardiac stress test as part of your annual checkup? A chest X-ray before outpatient surgery? A CT scan or antibiotics for chronic sinusitis? In most cases, no. But patients get these commonly used tests and procedures — and many...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Colleges and Universities, University of Chicago, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Cancer
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Tips to help you decide on an urgent care or emergency room
South Florida ParentingIt’s a Saturday afternoon, and your daughter turns an ankle on the soccer field. Or the earache your son has been fighting all week is suddenly worse, and now he has a fever. It’s a predicament almost every parent has found themselves in at...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Broward County, Broward Health Medical Center, Diarrhea, Asthma
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In The Pipeline: Cancer survivor needs help
In January, my daughter Claire and I spoke at Sowers Middle School for Author's Day. Before the first speech, a woman (whose 11-year-old daughter attends Sowers) approached me in the hall with a suggestion for this column: "Why don't you write about...Tags: Glioma, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Starbucks Corp., X-rays, Environmental Issues
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Columbia man pleads no contest to child abuse charges
swaltman@aberdeennews.comA Columbia man whose family maintains his innocence has been given a chance to keep from his record a child abuse charge involving his infant son. Jason R. Mettler, 27, entered a no contest plea on Tuesday to a count of abuse of or cruelty to a minor....Tags: Fractured Rib, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, X-rays, Justice System
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Foundation Radiology Group providing services at Somerset Hospital
Daily American Staff WriterA high ankle sprain such as the one Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger suffered Dec. 8 in the game against Cleveland differs from a low ankle sprain. Dr. James Backstrom, chief medical officer of Foundation Radiology Group, said that...Tags: Sprained Ankle, X-rays, Lymphatic System, Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics
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New MRI reduces stress of test
Hadiya Jackson is feeling anxious as she awaits her MRI. The Lake Park High School gymnast banged her knee doing a back walkover on the beam, and she's hoping it's not fractured.
Jackson slides her left leg into a circular tube in a new MRI machine that'...Tags: Yale School of Medicine, Superman (fictional character), Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics, Back Pain
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