KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Six more patients suspected to have Ebola have been admitted to the hospital days after investigators confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious disease in a remote corner of western Uganda, a health official said on Monday. Stephen Byaruhanga, health secretary of the affected Kibaale district, said possible cases of Ebola, at first concentrated in a single village, are now being reported in more villages. “It’s no longer just one village. There are many villages...
Community Hospital is about to take another step in its moving process. The hospital at 2021 N. 12th St. is in negotiations to purchase Western Orthopedics, across...
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BALTIMORE — Fewer Americans than previously thought are controlling their HIV infections and potentially putting the public at higher risk, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins University and University of Pennsylvania. The researchers found that there are tens of thousands of people...
With the extreme heat, and even in less extreme temperatures, those who spend any time outside must stay properly hydrated. Some drinks are better than others, and some people need more fluids than others, says Marc I. Leavey, an internist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore and Lutherville...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — This month, and nearly every month for the past three years, the 20 beds set aside specifically for drug- and alcohol-addicted baby boomers at Hanley rehab center in West Palm Beach can’t meet the demand. Always more patients than beds. The wave of 50- and...
The idea that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine or any thimerosal containing vaccine causes autism is not a scientific controversy. It is an urban myth that exploded in 1998 when a British surgeon named Andrew Wakefield performed intestinal biopsies on eight autistic children and claimed...
