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A $21 million center designed to help Maryland's baby biotechnology companies grow into healthy teen-agers will be situated on five acres of city-owned land at the Johns Hopkins University's Bayview Campus in Baltimore, the center's board said yesterday.The center will nurture companies trying to turn laboratory creations into commercial products. It will rent space and will provide the expertise of Hopkins scientists and University of Maryland Baltimore County bioengineers.Hopkins and UMBC had vied for the center to anchor their biotechnology industrial parks.

A man who was shot in the abdomen late Sunday night is expected to recover, Baltimore Police said. Officers were called to the 400 block of Bonsal Street in Bayview for a reported shooting at 11:12 p.m. Minutes later, a man walked into nearby Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. A crime scene was located a few blocks away in the rear northside alley of the 5900 block of Eastern Avenue, police said.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc. has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle allegations that it filed false claims to federal health benefits programs for nearly two years, the U.S. attorney for Maryland announced Tuesday. From July 2005 though February 2007, Bayview employees claimed that patients were treated for ailments they did not have, including malnutrition and acute respiratory failure, according to the settlement agreement. The claims inflated the severity of the center's case mix and, therefore, the rates at which it was reimbursed under schedules set by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission.

Hello dear readers, Saturday is the 10th Havre de Grace Community Yard Sale (April 27 – raindate April 28). Spaces are available by phoning 410-939-6562, to benefit the Havre de Grace Historic Preservations Commission. A final comprehensive list is available at the visitor center, 450 Pennington Ave. or 226 N. Union Ave. Otherwise, this will get you started: 414 Azra Court; 305 Bounding Home Court; 324, 325 and 330 Cigar Loop; 504, 532 and 534 Counterpoint Circle; 114 Deputed Testamony Place; 100 and 119 Flying Ebony Place; 409 Granville Court; 403, 450 and 507 Majestic Prince Circle; 305 and 306 Master Derby Drive; 313 and 314 Native Dancer Circle; 315 Seattle Slew Place; 214 Smarty Jones Terrace; 146 Snow Chief Drive; 540 Temperance Hill Way; 126 and 136 Touch of Gold Drive; 318 and 319 Victory Gallop Court; 207 War Admiral Way; 234 Whirlaway Lane.

A survivor of a fatal car crash at U.S. 1 and Dublin Road in northern Harford County early Sunday was discharged Monday evening, according to authorities at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Leo Gizzi Jr., 64, of Conowingo was injured when a GMC Sonoma pickup swerved into oncoming traffic on U.S. 1 and crashed head-on into Gizzi's Ford box truck. Matthew R. Caine, 26, of Bel Air, the driver of the pickup, and two passengers in the Ford -- Naomi Gizzi, 55, and Janet Hardy, 14, both of Conowingo -- were killed.

A stabbing outside a Rosedale restaurant Monday sent a 50-year-old man to the hospital, Baltimore County police reported. Police were called to the scene in a parking lot of a Panera Bread store in the 8600 block of Petrie Way at 1:15 p.m., according to Cpl. Jim Elliott. Officers found the victim with stab wounds to the neck. The man was taken to Johns Hopkins' Bayview Medical Center, Elliott said. His condition was not released. Elliott said it was not immediately clear whether the stabbing was the result of a robbery or a dispute.

Mable C. Copeland, a retired patient's aide who was an active church member, died Feb. 14 of a heart attack at Good Samaritan Hospital. The longtime Northeast Baltimore resident was 79. The daughter of farmers, Mable Clara Copeland was born and raised in Embro, N.C. She attended John R. Hawkins High School and after the death of her parents moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where she lived with relatives and graduated in 1950 from Rayen High School....

Patient First, an urgent care chain, opens a new center this morning on the campus of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center -- its first facility on the grounds of a hospital and its first in Baltimore City. Bayview sought out Patient First, seeing it not as competition but as a mechanism to unclog its crowded emergency department. The Bayview opening heralds a new burst of growth for Patient First, which opened five urgent care centers in the Baltimore area a decade ago but had not built any since.

The Johns Hopkins University and one of its teaching hospitals have agreed to pay more than $2.6 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that they overbilled the National Institutes of Health for addiction research and other projects. The settlement, announced yesterday by the U.S. attorney's office, came six years after an employee told federal authorities that researchers at Hopkins Bayview Medical Center had inflated the amount of time required to carry out studies on therapies for drug dependence.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center has closed its well-regarded drug detoxification center and is expanding its methadone treatment program, a move that reflects a shift in the city's drug treatment policy. Hundreds of addicts were weaned off of drugs during stays of 10 days to two weeks at the detox center. But city drug treatment officials say the unit did not adequately meet the needs of the city's hardcore addicts, many of whom require more support than detoxification. They also say public dollars would be better spent on long-term drug treatment, which can last up to a year and includes services such as methadone maintenance, counseling, job training and the use of buprenorphine, a prescription drug that cuts clients' craving for heroin.

Three firefighters were injured in a fire at a row house in West Baltimore on Wednesday morning, according to the Baltimore Fire Department. The firefighters were each burned in the one-alarm blaze in the 2100 block of W. North Avenue, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a department spokesman. One firefighter suffered a first-degree burn to his face and ear, Cartwright said. Another suffered a second-degree burn to the left side of his face, and the third suffered a second-degree burn to his right cheek, he said.

Virginia B. Machovec, a retired city public school cafeteria cashier and longtime hospital volunteer, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. She was 92. The daughter of a Cross Street Market worker and a homemaker, Virginia Baxter Edwards was born and raised in South Baltimore, where she graduated from Southern High School. In 1947, she married Lawrence J. Machovec Sr., a highly decorated World War II veteran who later became a Baltimore police officer.

A Baltimore County woman died after a two-alarm fire engulfed a Reisterstown's home Wednesday, county officials said. Karen Diener, 59, died Wednesday morning at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center after a fire broke out in her home in the unit block of Blake Court about 1 a.m. Police said the cause of the fire remains under investigation, but there is no indication at this time that it was intentionally set. About 15 fire companies, with...

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed multiple times in the upper torso in Edgewood shortly after 7 p.m. Monday, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Bleeding from stab wounds, he flagged down a patrol deputy about 7:15 p.m. near the intersection of Woodbridge Center Way and Acorn Ridge Court, according to Monica Worrell, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office. The boy, from the White Marsh area, told police he was in the area visiting a friend when he was jumped by several people, Worrell said.

Johns Hopkins Bayview campus plans to begin construction on a new $40 million emergency department annex on April 1, and some roads will be closed while work is being done. Nathan Shock Drive will be closed from Bayview Boulevard to Bioscience Drive. Maryland Transit Administration bus stops will also close at the blue awning, at the Bayview Medical Offices entrance, and on Nathan Shock Drive, by the emergency department. Bus 22 and Bus 30 will be rerouted with stops at Hopkins Bayview Circle.

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed in a quiet Southeast Baltimore neighborhood after a gunman drove up alongside his vehicle at an intersection and opened fire. Police did not immediately identify the victim. The shooting occurred in the Bayview neighborhood near the Johns Hopkins hospital of the same name, in the 6400 block of E. Pratt St., where only one shooting has been reported since 2008. Officers responding to a report of gunshots found the victim sitting in a Chevy Malibu, slumped over and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body.

WASHINGTON -- Portions of a $250 million federal laboratory under construction in Southeast Baltimore cannot be used as intended because excessive vibration in the building would compromise test results of highly sensitive research instruments. Now researchers, who were supposed to move into the new facility this fall, are waiting to hear whether they will be able to, government scientists said. The Biomedical Research Center, being built on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus by the National Institutes of Health, has been promoted as a state-of-the-art facility for research programs on aging and drug abuse, and it is a cornerstone for redevelopment in the neighborhood.

Johns Hopkins Health System plans to open a $35 million expanded emergency department at Bayview Medical Center by January 2014, followed by a new oncology wing for its lung cancer treatment program. Preliminary plans for the expansion at the eastern Baltimore campus — which eventually would also include a seven-story hospital tower — were presented for review Thursday to the city's Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel. Bayview needs an expanded emergency department to meet growing community needs, said Michael Iati, senior director of architecture and planning for the health system.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent advisory panel, recently recommended that healthy men not be given PSA blood tests to detect prostate cancer. But that won't mean the end of diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the most common cancer and the second most common cause of cancer death in American men. Dr. E. James Wright, associate professor and director of the Division of Reconstructive and Neurological Urology and chief of urology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, answers questions about diagnosis and the latest treatments, including measures to mitigate side effects such as incontinence and impotence.