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May 5, 2022 at 1:00 am

Major push aims to make aging a whole lot less achy

More than 54 million Americans are age 65 or older, or about 16% of the population, federal statistics show. The number is expected to grow...

April 22, 2022 at 1:00 am

Want to go to a wedding, but still worried about the pandemic? An expert explains how

Deciding to go, or host, an event can be tricky when it’s impossible to know when the next big surge occurs.

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March 30, 2022 at 5:00 am

Researchers say they’ve found a better way to test for COVID

Johns Hopkins University researchers say they have developed a simple sensor that could quickly and accurately detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in saliva.

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March 28, 2022 at 5:00 am

A broccoli a day keeps COVID (and colds) away? Researchers are looking into it

Vegetables have long been a mainstay of a healthy diet, but there may be one more reason to eat your greens. They may stave off...

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October 4, 2021 at 11:35 am

Family of Henrietta Lacks file suit against biotech company for using famous ‘HeLa’ cells without permission

BALTIMORE — Family members of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific for “unjust enrichment” after the company...

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April 17, 2020 at 10:11 am

Don’t try this at home. Drug touted by Trump for coronavirus getting vetted in large study

People in Maryland and elsewhere who have been exposed to the virus began taking hydroxychloroquine this week, and researchers will monitor them to see whether...

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February 23, 2020 at 4:48 am

Never mind leap days: Professors propose a new calendar with the occasional leap week

BALTIMORE — In 1582, Pope Gregory began a campaign to replace Julius Caesar’s widely used calendar with a slightly more accurate one that was named...

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December 6, 2014 at 6:08 am

Study find splints put on wrong in kids’ fractures

Hundreds of thousands of times each year in the United States, children go to emergency rooms with bone fractures. But new research from the University...

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August 30, 2014 at 6:01 am

New test shows promise in identifying mystery illnesses

BALTIMORE — At 2, Mick Smith, a triplet, couldn’t walk or talk as well as his siblings. In kindergarten, he started losing language and motor...

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November 10, 2013 at 5:03 am

To reduce cancer risk, slim down, doctors say

BALTIMORE — Mother and daughter Angela and Candi Watts were both diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. After a two-year battle, they are both disease-free,...