Dubbed the "Daredevil Granny" by the national media, Susie Mann has chosen a "bucket list" over cancer treatment.
In September, 79-year-old Timonium resident Susie Mann fulfilled a lifelong dream to go skydiving. Despite severe nausea leading up to the moment of her descent, Mann took the plunge from a plane at the Skydive Space Center in Titusville, Florida.
"I figured if President Bush could do it, I could do it, too," says Mann. "I don't know what I expected, but I thought there would be a...
Acupuncture helps addicts on the road to recovery.
At 9:30 on a recent Friday morning, two dozen men and women walk up the stairs of a nondescript gray building in the 2400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Taking seats among the two circles of folding chairs, some chit-chat, others keep to themselves, and a few fidget until acupuncturist Rhonda Sapp Armero enters the room.
She greets the Penn North Neighborhood Center...
Sen. Ben Cardin joins doctors, nurses, public-policy experts, and leaders of Maryland's health industry in our offices to discuss how the battle in Washington will affect the region.
Baltimore magazine: Senator, can you start by giving us an update on the status of the health-care reform debate in Washington?
Sen. Cardin: I think you're going to see significant reform with three major goals. One is to bring down the growth rate of health care cost. Secondly, there needs to be an affordable, quality option for...
A University of Maryland doc unravels the mystery of an Indonesian villager's bark-like skin.
Two-and-a-half years after University of Maryland Medical Center Chief of Dermatology Anthony Gaspari first laid eyes on an Indonesian villager named Dede, the doctor is still trying to solve the riddle of this, the most curious case of his career.
He has traveled twice to Indonesia, made two British TV specials, and endured heat from a foreign government, but...
How Sinai learned to compete with the city's elite hospitals.
In early 2006, Hartford, CT accountant John Richards began to have trouble hearing out of his left ear. His doctor recommended an MRI which revealed a marble-sized tumor near the base of his brain, called an acoustic neuroma. The growth was benign but pressed against the auditory canal, impairing Richards' hearing. Left untreated, the tumor could grow to push against Richards' brain stem,...
A peek inside the lives of first-year doctors.
Victoria Saah Giffi furiously scribbles patient information on a notepad, like a waitress taking breakfast orders during the morning rush.
Sitting in the large atrium at the University of Maryland Medical Center downtown, she is technically on a break, but only technically—the pager at her waist starts beeping before she gets the notebook into the pocket of her white lab coat. The 27-...
As he reflects on his extraordinary career, Dr. Ben Carson is now willing to open his house--and his life story--to the public.
Lacena "Candy" Carson wanders around the basement family room of her Georgian-style, Baltimore County estate—hammer in hand—performing an extremely familiar task: She's tacking up plaques and prizes belonging to her husband, Dr. Ben Carson, the internationally-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon.
On this brisk fall night, Candy has fallen a bit behind in her efforts, as she hangs Carson's...
Spas promise to restore our youth with gold, chocolate, and yams. But do these "miracle" treatments really work?
We've been on a quest throughout history for places that offer restorative powers. From Roman baths to hot springs and even the proverbial fountain of youth, we've always sought the ultimate source of rejuvenation. Today, spas and salons are where we go to ease our tensions and hopefully emerge fresher and feeling younger. But do the myriad treatments really work? We set out to uncover some of...
While others discarded DNA clues in rape cases before a database existed, this pathologist saw the future.
Thirty years ago, police had few investigative tools for tracking down the perpetrators of sexual assaults, particularly stranger rapes when a victim may never see her assailant's face. So when a victim was seen at a hospital, the sexual assault exam was really only able to determine that there had been recent sexual activity and, if the examiner was lucky enough to find the right trace...
More and more children are suffering with food allergies and doctors don't know why.
Imagine there's a time bomb attached to your child, one that could go off at any time and cause him or her life-threatening harm. That kind of knowledge would change the way your family lives and be a cause of constant stress. That's what life is like for Warren and Sari Alperstein since they discovered their oldest son, Ryan, has food allergies. Ryan, now 7, is allergic to milk and was...
