cancer

A diagnosis of metastatic cancer is a challenge to live as well as you can, for the time you have left.  Johns Hopkins has created a retreat for couples facing that diagnosis, to help caregivers and patients help each other.  We talk about whether the retreat could be a model for other hospitals.

 Back pain, knee pain and other forms of “boomeritis,” during a visit with Dr. Brian Block of Maryland Pain Specialists.

We talk about the lawsuit between Baltimore Comptroller Joan Pratt and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and examine how it's affecting the functioning of city government.

How many books can you fit into a library the size of a birdhouse? We ask Lesley Noll, library services coordinator at The Village Learning Place. They're planning to bring "little free libraries" to Charm City.

We know more and more every year about what cancer does to our bodies. But no one is prepared for what it does to your life.

Cancer can cause logistical chaos--all the paperwork having to do with advanced directives, social security issues, hospice care--at the same time it's presenting a family with an unimaginable emotional challenge.

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Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be hard at any age. But what would it be like to get such a diagnosis as a teenager or as a young adult, a time in life when you’re just starting to make  big decisions such as deciding on a career, choosing where to live, or settling down with a romantic partner?

We take a look at the Maryland Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan. Allen’s Family Foods, a 92-year-old poultry business based in Delaware, declared bankruptcy in June, and was purchased by Harim Group, a poultry company based in Korea. We talk with a grower who worked with Allen’s about what that might mean. Tom talks with the editor and one of the contributors to Music at the Crossroads: Lives and Legacies of Baltimore Jazz. What are the benefits of providing low income housing specifically for artists?