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Mandolin concert in Hagerstown planned as fundraiser for woman with rare disease

marieg@herald-mail.com

Most days, Alli Rogers is in pain. This is the reality of the young woman’s life as she battles a rare disease — one for which there is no cure. She has been in and out of hospitals, has had three surgeries, with the most recent requiring...

Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lymphatic System, Arts and Culture, Kidney, Lungs and Airways

Stomach problems are a common ailment; here's how to help stay healthy

Special to The Herald-Mail

Tummy troubles are one of the most common complaints heard at the doctor's office.  "It can vary from things as simple as anxiety to food poisoning to a medication effect to things more chronic like heartburn, reflux, gallbladder disease, ulcers or...

Tags: Chemical Industry, Gallbladder Disease, Gastritis, Physical Conditions, Abdominal Pain

Acosta man to lead this year's Somerset Relay For Life

Daily American Staff Writer

Ronald Singo knows firsthand that it takes a lot of care and support to endure struggles with cancer. “It’s a lonely position you’re in and you need comfort and help from other people,” Singo said. The 69-year-old Acosta native...

Tags: Prostate, Colon Cancer, Human Interest, Lungs and Airways, Prostate Cancer

"I'm bald and I know it" says nine year old battling cancer

It's four words no parent wants to hear, your child has cancer.  But it's news a couple in Rose Hill have taken twice, as their nine-year-old son battles a rare type of cancer. But Charlie Futhey is using You-Tube to show his parents his strength to...

Tags: Entertainment, Health, Music, Cancer, Chemotherapy

Francis Scott Key volleyball tourney taps team spirit to shine a light on rare form of cancer

Two years ago, the Student Government Association at Francis Scott Key High School came up with a fundraising idea that has bumped and spiked its way into an annual tradition. The third annual charity volleyball tournament, "Spike Out Sarcoma" will be...

Tags: Ocean City, Carroll County (Maryland), Cancer

The Pet Corner: Sometimes you won't know unless you try

Each and every one of us has to make choices throughout the normal day-to-day living. Every once in a while we are faced with a very difficult decision that may even affect the lives of many people around us. Certainly, as veterinarians, many of our...

Tags: Entertainment, Music, Pets, Concerts, Music

Kimball teacher, founder of awareness event, dies of cancer

Local family tries to see silver lining during difficult times of illness

dan.dearth@herald-mail.com

Lindsay Pinieski said she was devastated a little more than a year ago when her husband, Zack, was diagnosed with cancer. But things started to look brighter after chemotherapy treatments drove the disease into remission. The Hagerstown family’...

Tags: Tumors, Hospitals and Clinics, Nevada, Biotechnology, Oncology

Ron Smith to stop chemotherapy, remain on air 'as long as I can'

Ron Smith went on WBAL radio Thursday, just as he has for the past 27 years. But the conservative talk-show host, who was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, opened his show telling listeners — with characteristic bluntness — that he...

Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Hospitals and Clinics, Biotechnology, Oncology, Pancreatic Cancer

Concert to benefit Maryland artist

Daily American Correspondent

When Jim Donovan learned that his longtime friend Jaqui MacMillan had a tumor the size of a watermelon in her abdomen and was in need of a costly operation, he knew that he had to do something to help. Donovan, a founding member of the band Rusted Root...

Tags: Entertainment, Babatunde Olatunji, Concerts, Human Interest, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)