ANNAPOLIS — Mosquito season may be waning in Maryland, but Zika research here is in full force. Although Maryland accounts for fewer than 3 percent of the Zika cases nationwide, there are at least five sites in Maryland researching the ...

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WINDBER, Pa. — A cancer treatment program based at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington, D.C. is being named for the late Democrat U.S. Rep. John Murtha, and will include a research laboratory in western Pennsylvania. The Tribune-Democrat ...

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BETHESDA — Some transportation experts are disputing a Defense Department finding that the addition of thousands of patients and workers has reduced traffic congestion near the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. The Washington Post reported in Tuesday’s ...

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BETHESDA — U.S. military officials are celebrating the opening of the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta presided over a dedication ceremony Thursday of what he called “a 21st-century place of miracles.” The ...

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WASHINGTON — Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army’s flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care, is closing its doors after more than a century. Hundreds of thousands of the nation’s war wounded from World War I ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has visited service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and awarded two of them purple hearts. The White House said the president met with a total of 21 wounded ...

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