FREDERICK — Military records are shedding new light on Agent Orange testing decades ago at Maryland military installations and raising new concerns about health hazards from the Vietnam War-era chemical defoliant. Fort Detrick released fresh details Tuesday on outdoor experiments ...

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SEATTLE — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs is taking his second medical leave of absence in two years, raising serious questions about his health and the leadership of a company at the forefront of a personal computing revolution. Jobs, 55, ...

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The sons and estate of a forklift driver who unloaded bags of raw asbestos for six years as part of his job have won a $2.2 million verdict against Union Carbide, which mined and sold the asbestos to his employer. ...

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what is believed to be the first wrongful-death settlement won ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her own health and marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a six-year struggle with cancer. She ...

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A federal judge could decide as early as Wednesday whether a Baltimore drug manufacturer must cancel a long-planned winter shutdown to make hundreds of thousands of doses of a colorectal cancer treatment. But if the judge’s candid comments at the ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A report released by several public health organizations Wednesday ranked Maryland’s funding of its anti-tobacco program 34th in the country. According to the report, Maryland currently puts $4.3 million a year toward tobacco prevention, a 78 percent decrease ...

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A private cancer treatment company is investing in a $200 million venture at the University of Maryland BioPark in West Baltimore, bringing 110 permanent jobs to the city. The 100,000-square-foot Maryland Proton Treatment Center is expected to break ground in ...

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