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This week’s topics include fixing holes in the heart, the role of inflammation in heart disease, metal on metal hip implant, and whether...
Texting is entering medicine with a vengeance, with a multitude of studies showing how it can benefit patient management with regard...
April 3, 2013Maryland is negotiating the biggest changes in its health system in four decades, even bigger than the changes facing other states, because Maryland is the only state with authority to set hospital charges that are paid by all insurers, and by uninsured patients.To hold on to that hospi...
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This morning the House of Delegates begins debating Governor O'Malley's gun control bill. As it stands, the measure would ban assault-style weapons and strengthen the requirements to buy a handgun in Maryland. We talk with two of the delegates involved in the debate: Luiz Si...
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Experts predict a virulent and long allergy season this spring. Those who suffer might now have a painless alternative to allergy shots. Also, an implantable lens could help those who suffer from age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of irreversible vision loss. Plus, a look at the Okl...
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This week’s topics include off pump coronary artery bypass surgery, under the tongue immunotherapy, vitamin D and pregnancy outcomes, and chelation therapy after heart attack.
This week's topics include using DNA to track metastatic breast cancer, radiation dangers to the heart following cancer treatment, atherosclerosis in mummies, and inappropriate screening colonoscopy.
March 18, 2013The real stuff goes by pot, mary jane, or the sticky icky. The fake stuff has street names, too—spice, K-2, or Moon Rocks. We’re talking about synthetic marijuana, a mixture of herbs that’s sprayed with a chemical similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijua...
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March 19, 2013Actor and storyteller Jon Spelman, of Baltimore, has developed a new one-man show about his experience being diagnosed with prostate cancer. He succesfully rid himself of the disease through surugery. In his new show, The Prostate Dialogues and Tales of the Tellywacker, he ...
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This week’s topics include a lack of benefit in sildenafil and heart failure, pertussis uptick, MRI and back pain, and family members presence during CPR.
Disagreements over money can ruin romantic relationships and inject stresses into family life. Why does money have such a powerful hold on our emotions, and what are some of the best ways to talk about money with those we love? Columbia-based psychologist Brad Sachs shares tips on balancin...
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March 13, 2013In 1950, Baltimore city banned the use of lead paint in homes. But, city residents, of whom children and pregnant women are the most affected, are still being poisoned by the lead paint that was applied more than sixty years ago. There are a raft of bills in the General Assembly dealin...
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The Baltimore City Council approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s $2.4 billion operating...
WYPR's Fraser Smith and Scott Calvert of the Baltimore Sun talk about how the City Council is...
