Your weekly dose of health news, tips and events for Maryland.
Monday, Jan 15 High doctor suicide rates have been reported since 1858. Yet more than 150 years later, the root causes of these suicides remain unaddressed. |
| A state agency charged with ensuring health facilities meet federal and state standards is investigating a University of Maryland Medical Center hospital in Baltimore where a woman was found outside in just a hospital gown and socks in a case that some are calling patient dumping. |
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| As Imamu Baraka saw hospital security guards outside University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown leaving a woman in her hospital gown near a bus stop, he didnât stop filming video. |
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| Patient dumping is when a hospital releases a patient to the streets rather than keeping them or connecting them with needed social services. The University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown in Baltimore is the latest hospital across the country accused of patient dumping. |
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| The FDA cleared the first treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer caused by BRCA mutations. |
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| Nearly half of U.S. women have at least a mild deficiency in the nutrient iodine, and new research suggests it could impair their fertility. |
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| The FDA warned that children should not be prescribed cough and cold medicines containing codeine and hydrocodone because of serious safety risks. |
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| Cervical cancer screenings, called Pap tests, can actually prevent cancer by finding abnormal cells before they become cancer, says the Harford County Health Department in urging all women 21 and older to get tested annually. |
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