FEATURES
By SUSAN REIMER | April 3, 2007
Iwrote a column recently advocating the vaccination of our daughters against human papilloma virus, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause genital warts and, years later, cause cervical cancer. The response to the column was passionate, as you might imagine. Readers objected to everything from the unknown long-term effects of the drug to the unseemly role of Merck, the company that makes the vaccine, in urging it on the public. Readers recalled the record of pharmaceutical companies with drugs such as hormone replacement therapy, Vioxx and Fen-Phen, which were thought to be helpful when introduced but were found, over time, to be harmful.
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By Linell Smith and Linell Smith,Sun reporter | October 20, 2006
In the autumn of 1918, many of Dr. Admont Halsey Clark's colleagues were in France, tending to troops. Although commissioned as a first lieutenant in the medical reserve corps, he had heeded the U.S. surgeon general's request that he keep to his research. It was lonely work. The pathologist slept on a cot in his lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital, running experiments he hoped would reveal more about flu and its aftermath. Often the viral infection was followed by fatal pneumonia. He was studying streptococcus, a bacterium that causes it. Little did Clark know that at 30, his age put him at great risk.
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By BRENT JONES and BRENT JONES,SUN REPORTER | April 27, 2006
A man twice convicted of killing a woman in Charles Village 15 years ago -- only to have both verdicts overturned on appeal -- was again found guilty of first-degree murder yesterday by a jury in Baltimore Circuit Court. Jurors deliberated a few hours before convicting Mohammad Biglari of killing Barbara Halsey in her apartment in the 2800 block of N. Calvert St. in March 1991. Sentencing is set for June 15. Biglari and Halsey lived in the apartment building, and prosecutors said Biglari used electric tape and cable ties to bind her before shooting her three times and repeatedly stabbing her. Experts testified that the same type of tape and cable ties found at the crime scene match those found in Biglari's apartment.
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By BRADLEY OLSON and BRADLEY OLSON,SUN REPORTER | November 30, 2005
President Bush will visit Anne Arundel County today for the third time this year, stopping to make a speech at the Naval Academy before traveling to Baltimore to raise money for Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's U.S. Senate campaign. He is expected to speak in detail about the Iraq war and mounting calls for troop pullbacks, although it was uncertain what level of detail he would provide about plans. Bush received a warm welcome when he addressed the academy's Class of 2005 in May, staying to congratulate each graduate and donning a blue academy jacket.
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November 16, 2005
On November 14, 2005, TINA L. SCHMIDT of Street, MD. Beloved wife of Keith Thomas Schmidt. Devoted mother of Sarah Anne Schmidt and stepmother of Keith Thomas Schmidt, Jr. Loving daughter of Glenn Cebert Halsey and Marian Priscilla Cox Halsey. Sister of James Dean Halsey and Richard Glenn Halsey. Also survived by her grandmother Elfreda Cox. Services will be held at the family owned Mc Comas Funeral Home, P.A., Abingdon, MD on Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 10 A.M. Interment will be in Harford Memorial Gardens, Aberdeen, MD. Friends may call at the funeral Home in Abingdon on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 P.M. Those who desire may make contributions to Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Development Office, 401 N. Broadway, Suite 110, Baltimore, MD 21236.
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December 31, 2003
On Monday, December 29, 2003, MR. RANDY MEHRLE HALSEY, 45, of Berlin, MD, formerly of Frederick, died at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda. Born on September 25, 1958 in Hagerstown, he was a son of Shirley Wachter Halsey and the late Robert J. Halsey. He was a Capt. in the U.S. Army, serving from 1980 to 1984 with the 82nd Airborne, where he was Jump Master and a graduate of Ranger school. He was a graduate of Andover High School, Glen Burnie, Class of 1976 and a graduate of Western Maryland College, Westminster, Class of 1980.