Medical School

Ronn Wade gingerly picked up the package wrapped in a simple white sheet and placed it on an examining table before slowly unwrapping the layers. And there it was. The mummified remains of a small child that had disappeared from University of Maryland School of Medicine years ago. With one look Wade knew it was part of the famed Burns Collection, an obscure set of medical mummies once used for dissection and the training of medical students and...

The 200-year-old mummified remains of a small child are making their way back to the University of Maryland School of Medicine after an absence in which they were posted for sale on eBay and languished for almost five years in a Michigan police evidence room. The effort to identify the mummy's home and return it was aided by a Port Huron, Mich., police lieutenant, a couple of astute Michigan anthropologists and the curator of a mummy collection originally assembled by a convicted 19th-century Scottish grave robber.

Arissa Jeffries , 17, of Ellicott City competed for the title of Miss Maryland Teen USA 2012 Oct. 28-30, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, in Bethesda. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orndorff Jeffries. She attends Howard Community College and her activities and hobbies include piano, violin, singing, modeling and acting. Arissa's goal is to attend medical school, earn a degree in psychology and own her own rehabilitation clinic.

Eleanor V. Broadwater, business manager of a family medical practice, died Sunday of a heart attack at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Cockeysville resident was 69. The daughter of a B&O Railroad brakeman and a homemaker, the former Eleanor Virginia Sagal was born and raised in Keyser, W.Va. After graduating in 1959 from Keyser High School, she attended Catherman Business School in Keyser. She was married in 1964 to Dr. Ronald Lee Broadwater and moved to Morgantown, where her husband attended medical school at West Virginia University.

Dr. Candice Giordano, has joined Seidenberg Protzko Eye Associates. She will see patients of all ages in the Havre de Grace and Bel Air offices. She will also perform cataract surgery at the Mid-Atlantic Surgery Pavilion in Aberdeen. Giordano is a Baltimore native and her husband, Dr. Michael Giordano, is the assistant director of the emergency department at Harford Memorial Hospital. Candice Giordano completed her undergraduate degree with honors from Bucknell University.

A panel that met Wednesday to explore whether Maryland should modify its marijuana laws may have come up with the most practical proposal yet to allow the medical use of marijuana by people suffering from chronic pain or illness, while discouraging the abuses that have plagued other states' efforts to legalize the drug. The plan, which involves giving schools and hospitals the lead role in administering the drug, appears to offer the best chance yet of passing both legal and medical muster.

Joan Brown Sadler, a nurse, avid gardener and volunteer for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, died June 28 of breast cancer at Mercy Hospital. The longtime Roland Park resident was 76. "She would always say she was a professional volunteer," said her husband, Dr. John H. Sadler. "She was always doing things," he said. Born Joan Brown in Atlanta, she was the second of three children. Her father was a diesel mechanic and heavy equipment technician, and her mother was a homemaker.

Joseph B. Kelly, a retired University of Maryland School of Medicine researcher who enjoyed fine dining and listening to vintage jazz, died June 5 of renal failure at Northwest Hospital Center. He was 81. The son of a chauffeur and a homemaker, Mr. Kelly was born in Baltimore and raised on West Waesche Street, near University Hospital. After graduating in 1948 from Carver Vocational-Technical High School, he worked as a dental assistant for Dr. Isaac Young before being drafted into the Army in 1950.