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Woman nearly loses sight because of rare disorder

Last updated Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 1:30pm

BALTIMORE -- When Tamika Morgan developed red irritated eyes in the fall of 2010, she wasted no time heading to an optometrist at a local retail store who gave her drops for pink eye.

Her eyes got worse over the next few days so she went to a local hospital to see an ophthalmologist, but a specialist wasn't available. A weekend passed and she landed in the office of a retina expert at another hospital, and by then she couldn't read the big E on the vision chart.

She was legally blind.

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Alcohol companies reach youth online

Meredith Cohn The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 2:51pm

BALTIMORE -- A beer bottle was lit up like a Christmas tree on one Facebook page and flanked by stuffed animals in another.

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Lupron therapy for autism at center of doctor's case

Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 6:08pm

BALTIMORE -- Since Sam Wessels was diagnosed with autism at age 2, doctors have offered his mother a litany of drugs for the boy from Prozac and Ritalin to Metadate CD and Strattera, commonly used to treat ADHD. Other "alternative" medicine pitches have included special diets and even nicotine. "This is the best you can do?" Sam's mother Lin Wessels wondered.

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HIV-infected organs can save lives, doctors say

Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Monday, April 11, 2011 - 3:07pm

BALTIMORE -- The nation has a huge need for kidneys, livers and other organs for transplant, but federal law has one absolute rule for donors: no HIV infections.

Some Johns Hopkins doctors now argue that HIV should not disqualify the organs from transplant into recipients who also are already infected with the virus.

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