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St. Joseph Medical Center board recommends buyer

August 19, 2019 at 1:45 a.m.

St. Joseph Medical Centertook another step in choosing a buyer for its Towson campus. The hospital said the board made a recommendation Monday to the parent company, Catholic Health Initiatives,...

Dr. Alain B. Labrique (left) and Elizabeth Jordan (front center, in white) of the Johns Hopkins Global M-Health Initiative are pictured with some members of their steering committee, including faculty and students from the Schools of Nursing, Public Health, Medicine and Jhpiego.

Hopkins researchers aim to uncover which mobile health applications work

August 19, 2019 at 1:45 a.m.

Those looking to lose weight, quit smoking or keep tabs on a malady have a lot of choices in the smartphone app stores. Choosing one that's beneficial is more of...

NAACP to host forum for women in Baltimore for HIV awareness

August 19, 2019 at 1:44 a.m.

Saturday marks the seventh annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and the NAACP is hosting a public lunch and panel discussion at Coppin State University . The day...

Patrice Henry, a patient advocate/community program coordinator for the Moore Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, also was diagnosed with HIV in 1995. She's pictured outside the Carnegie Building at Johns Hopkins Hospital, which houses the clinic.

Black women in city infected with HIV at higher rate than national average

August 19, 2019 at 1:44 a.m.

African-American women in Baltimore and five other U.S. cities are becoming infected with HIV at a rate five times the national average for black women, and closer to the rates...

Vitamin D may be used to treat common fibroids

August 19, 2019 at 1:43 a.m.

Surgery is generally the only treatment for uterine fibroids, the most common noncancerous tumors in women of childbearing age. Some 200,000 U.S. women have the procedure every year, at a...

Dr. Melissa Kwan, a pediatric emergency physician, listens as Dr. Reid Thompson, a pediatric cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Childrens Center, teaches a workshop for physicians about using stethoscopes to detect heart problems. She is using stethophone, which is equipped with recorded sounds from real cardiac patients with various conditions.

Hopkins’ medical students learn to use their stethoscopes

August 19, 2019 at 1:42 a.m.

The stethoscope may be an icon of the medical profession to most patients. But it's more of a relic to many doctors. The device used to listen to the heart,...

Know how to store, reheat food safely

August 19, 2019 at 1:42 a.m.

Many Americans make meals out of leftovers from their meals. And while everyone knows to refrigerate perishables, not everyone is taking all the proper steps to ensure the next-day food...

Brandon Eck is a patient care technician for the DaVita dialysis center's emergency response team.

Emergency preparation for dialysis patients

August 19, 2019 at 1:42 a.m.

Dialysis is a lifesaving treatment for those with kidney disorders. But during emergencies, particularly bad weather, sometimes patients don't want to go — or can't get to — their usual...

Most private employers providing health insurance to workers

August 19, 2019 at 1:42 a.m.

Just 17 percent of Maryland's adult private sector workers went without health insurance in 2010, compared with 22 percent nationally, according to a report put out by the Maryland Health...

Air Force veteran Aaron Franz of Baltimore has donated his blood for a genetics project by the Veterans Administration.

Project seeks 1 million veterans to give blood, DNA for disease research

August 19, 2019 at 1:41 a.m.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for a battle it's waging at home — against disease. Actually, more than...

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