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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 12, 2009
Marvin Leonard Venick, a longtime Giant Food Inc. pharmacist and Northwest Baltimore resident, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Nov. 2 at Courtland Gardens Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was 76. Mr. Venick, the son of a Western Union telegrapher and homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised on North Pulaski Street. He was a 1950 graduate of City College and earned his pharmacist's degree in 1955 from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. He served in the Navy as a pharmacist's mate in Norfolk, Va., until being discharged in 1957.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | August 13, 2009
Mary H. Henry, a great-granddaughter of slaves who earned a degree in pharmacy and later became a homemaker, died of a cardiac arrest Aug. 6 at a son's Ashburton home. She was 101. Mrs. Henry quietly observed her birthday on June 3, family members said. "She didn't want a party or anything. She was never one for much fanfare," said a son, Dr. Irving J. Henry, a retired Baltimore dentist. "I went over to my brother's house, fixed dinner, and the three of us sat there eating, laughing and telling jokes."
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | July 28, 2009
Otto Karl Boellner Jr., a retired pharmacist and woodworker, died Thursday of heart failure at his Timonium home. He was 85. Mr. Boellner, the son of a baker and homemaker, was born and raised in East Baltimore. He was a 1942 graduate of City College and earned his pharmacy degree in 1947 from the University of Maryland Pharmacy School. During World War II, Mr. Boellner enlisted in the Navy and served as a pharmacist's mate in Annapolis. He began his career in the late 1940s working at the Read Drug and Chemical Co. pharmacy in the 2100 block of East Monument St. He later worked for its successor firm, Rite-Aid, until retiring in the 1990s.
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By Tricia Bishop | July 1, 2009
A Reisterstown pharmacist was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges claiming he illegally sold more than 23,000 prescription pills. The amount is the equivalent of 63 kilograms of cocaine or nearly 28,000 pounds of marijuana, federal authorities said. A six-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges that Ketankumar Arvind Patel, 47, used his Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy at 11813 1/2 Reisterstown Road to fill phony prescriptions for the anti-anxiety medication Xanax, along with thousands of Oxycontin and Percocet pills, both of which contain oxycodone.
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December 19, 2007
The city matches 2006 homicide total - 275 The addition of two homicide victims to the number of violent deaths in Baltimore in 2007 means the city has matched its total for all of last year, police said. As of last night, the figure stood at 275. Shortly after 10 p.m. on June 8, 3-year-old Jabari Stocks, of the 900 block of E. Patapsco Ave., was having difficulty breathing and was taken was taken to Harbor Hospital, police said. An examination in the emergency room showed the child had sustained a head injury, and he died a short time later, police said.
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By Stephanie Desmon | November 1, 2007
The drugstore has long held two options for the sick: medications made available only with a doctor's prescription or less potent drugs sold over the counter. Now the Food and Drug Administration is considering a third class of drugs: "behind-the-counter" medications that would be available without a prescription, but only after consultation with a pharmacist. Birth-control pills, cholesterol-lowering medicine and weight-loss drugs, available now by prescription, might be candidates. "We're looking at improving access to safe and effective drugs," said Ilisa Bernstein, the FDA's director of pharmacy affairs.
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September 2, 2007
ALFRED IRVING AARONSON, 90, passed away on August 27, 2007. He was born in Baltimore, MD on August 24, 1917, the son of Isador and Nellie Aaronson. He was a pharmacist. During WWII he enlisted in the Navy and was a pharmacist mate on a destroyer escort for convoys going across the Atlantic. After the war, he met and married his wife of 59 years, Lorraine (Libby), who survives him as do his three children; Joanne of Reston, VA, Blair of Los Angeles, and Dr. Scott (wife Sandi); grandchildren, Chase and Peyton.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | July 21, 2007
Alfred L. Davis, a pharmacist-turned-restaurateur who co-owned the Pimlico Hotel, died of cardiac arrest July 14 at Sinai Hospital. The longtime resident of Old Court Road was 78. Mr. Davis was born in Baltimore and raised in Forest Park and Ferndale. He was a 1945 graduate of Glen Burnie High School and earned a pharmacy degree from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in 1949. He had worked as a pharmacist for Whelan's Drugstores in Silver Spring and later Edmondson Village.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 21, 2006
Jerrold F. Bress, a Harford County pharmacist and former nursing home owner, died of prostate cancer yesterday at a hospital in Sharon, Pa. The Havre de Grace resident was 83. Mr. Bress was born and raised in Chester, Pa., and during World War II served as an Army supply sergeant in the Pacific. After graduating from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1950, he moved to Havre de Grace, where he owned and operated two Green's pharmacies and a convenience store before selling the businesses in 1992.
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By Jacques Kelly | September 26, 2006
Alfred Howard Schwartzman, who was raised in his high school years by two neighborhood pharmacists and with their encouragement became one himself, died of esophageal cancer Sunday at his Pikesville home. He was 73. Born in Guilford County, N.C., and raised in Baltimore's Reservoir Hill, he attended night school at City College and worked days stocking shelves at the old Brookfield Pharmacy after his mother died and his father lived out-of-state. Its owners, Godfrey Kroopnick and Irving Freed, gave him the job, helped raise him and encouraged him to go into their profession.