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August 21, 2017View email in browser
 

MedStar Health Cancer Network offers less instrusive lumpectomy procedure

Dr. Maen Farha, medical director of the Union Memorial Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital breast centers, has begun using less intrusive electromagnetic wave technology to locate and remove breast lumps not detectable by touch. He uses a device that provides “real-time guidance” to insert a reflector directly into the breast lump, according to MedStar Health Cancer Network.

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Baltimore launches 'bad batch' text-alert system for overdoses

With the help of student computer programmers, Baltimore health officials have launched a text-messaging service to warn residents when deadly batches of drugs are in their neighborhood.
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Camp Open Arms reaches out to kids with limb challenges

The four-day camp gives children with limb differences a space to build confidence.

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State health officials monitor uptick in whooping cough cases, encourage continued immunization

There has been a 15 percent increase in the number of confirmed or probable pertussis cases in the first six months of 2017, as compared to the same time period in 2016.

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As judge considers holding state in contempt, Md. health secretary defends psychiatric care

Maryland’s acting health secretary spent more than 90 minutes in court last Tuesday morning defending the state’s efforts to move mentally ill criminal defendants out of jail and into treatment.

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Maryland school of alternative medicine to offer new naturopathic program

The Maryland University of Integrative Health is establishing a school of naturopathic medicine and plans to admit the first students to the program next year.
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Patients with paralysis learn how to scuba dive at the Kennedy Krieger Institute

As her father guided her wheelchair down the ramp alongside the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s pool on Saturday, 12-year-old Tylena Fisher fiddled with the folds of the borrowed wet suit she was wearing, and took a few deep breaths.
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Federal funding cut to teen pregnancy prevention programs will hurt Baltimore, health commissioner says

The city stands to lose the equivalent of $3.5 million in funding for these programs due to Trump administration cuts.

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