As it turns out, that overestimated some of our state legislators.
Del. Eric Bromwell, D-Baltimore County, along with co-sponsors from Baltimore and Harford counties and Baltimore City, has put forward House Bill 777. Provided this state's presumably slots-happy voters agreed, it would authorize up to 3,000 machines at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Although the airport is in Anne Arundel County, there are no Anne Arundel legislators sponsoring Read the rest of this entry »

Genetic engineering is a high-tech way to “breed” desirable traits into livestock. The benefits might be for the producer, such as a disease-resistant cow or an easy-to-raise salmon. It might be for the environment — pigs that produce milder manure, for example — or for the consumer, say, more nutritious meat.
The old-fashioned way of breeding farmed animals requires selecting offspring with desired traits over successive generations. Ron Stotish, Read the rest of this entry »

Assura exchanges contracts with Medical Centre Developments for sale of six non-core properties for GBP 17.6 Mln – Quick Facts
(RTTNews) - 
Monday, Assura Group Ltd (AGR.L:
) said it exchanged contracts with Medical Centre Developments Ltd. and its sister company, Medical Centres Scotland Ltd., for the sale of six non-core properties from its medical property portfolio for GBP 17.6 million. The transaction Read the rest of this entry »

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Bloodstream infections from a drug-
resistant type of bacteria plummeted in hospital intensive care
units over a decade, according to government researchers who
attributed the change to a focus on cleanliness.
From 1997 through 2007, the rate of infections in ICU
patients’ blood spread by catheters carrying the bacteria called
, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, dropped
almost 50 percent, the study found. Read the rest of this entry »

MADRID (AFP) — Retired Spanish golf legend Severiano Ballesteros, a five-time major winner, remained in stable condition in hospital Thursday, three days after he briefly lost consciousness, the hospital said.
“He is stable and is waiting for the results of supplementary tests, which will possibly be concluded tomorrow, to establish a diagnosis,” Madrid’s La Paz hospital said in a statement.
The 51-year-old was described as being in stable Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s note: From now through the end of December, various Crave experts will be sharing their top five (mostly) tech-related wishes for the holiday season. See what we crave, and maybe you’ll get some ideas!
1.
. Yeah sure, these things have been around for years now, but I’m not the type of person who jumps all over new technology as soon as it’s available. For me, there needs to be a necessity. Case in point, my
. I mean, look at my face Read the rest of this entry »

Iron Chef Michael Symon’s Roast gets the Free Press’ nod for metro Detroit’s top eatery of the year.
We asked readers to point us toward Detroit’s best hamburgers. Six weeks later, here are our favorites.
See dozens of photo galleries of head-turning vehicles and more from the 2009 Detroit auto show at Cobo Hall.
Join us in honoring Motown through a video series exploring where Motown still lives in metro Detroit.
Take a look back at the year Read the rest of this entry »

The phantom menace appeared at the vice presidential debate, but you could be forgiven if somehow you missed it. After weeks, if not months of absence from the campaign debate, Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden discussed the health insurance conundrum — briefly, incompletely and practically incomprehensibly.
Palin started what amounted to a lightning round on the topic that used to be at the forefront of voters’ concerns. That is, Read the rest of this entry »

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) — Changing the rules about prescribing a clot-preventing drug made a difference in the lives of heart patients, a new Canadian study finds.
When the Ontario health insurance system made it easier for doctors to prescribe Plavix to people who had stents implanted after artery-opening procedures, the number of deaths, heart attacks and subsequent cardiac procedures went down significantly, according to a report Read the rest of this entry »

– Community @ MyHealthVillage.com with Jan Swaney, M.D. covering general
health and wellness subjects
– Healthy Eating & Exercising @ MyHealthVillage.com hosted by Le Greta
Hudson, M.S., R.D., C.D.E. and other nationally known nutrition and
exercise experts
– Living with Chronic Conditions @ MyHealthVillage.com hosted by
registered nurse and certified diabetes educator Cindy Sears covering
coping with common chronic Read the rest of this entry »