WASHINGTON – By October 2009, the Maryland State Board of Physicians had heard numerous complaints from pharmacists across the state about abusive prescription practices. So news that came late that month about Dr. Nicola Tauraso overprescribing the pain killer oxycodone — an addictive and often-abused sythetic opiate — from a barn on his residential property […]
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Howard County Pilots Easier, Web-based Health Insurance Application
WASHINGTON – Howard County Executive Ken Ulman attended a health care conference in Phoenix three years ago to learn more about improving coverage options for his constituents, a trip that ended up yielding an ideal solution to his district’s health insurance woes. “This California company had a ‘one-e-app’ that streamlined all their health care programs […]
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First Saturday Presentations Explore Black Ancestry
African Americans interested in tracing their ancestry often face roadblocks. The American slave system scattered Black families, separating husbands from wives and parents from children, making it difficult for later generations to trace their family’s roots. But this past weekend’s First Saturday Presentations, held at U Street’s African American Civil War Museum, showed that while […]
