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Army to study brain stimulator for TBI patients

Television personality Montel Williams is joining Army scientists at Fort Detrick in a medical research deal.

Tags: DoD , Army , Montel Williams , TBI , technology

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Army plans to begin four 'utility-scale' renewable energy projects this year

The four acquisition decisions the service will make in the coming months are the first fruits of a task force the Army created to pursue large-scale solar, geothermal, wind, biomass and waste-to-energy facilities on its bases.

Tags: Army , Air Force , Renewable energy , John Lushetsky , Kathy Ahsing , Energy initiatives task force , solar energy , industry , Fort Bliss , Fort Irwin , Jared Serbu

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Family fears Fort Detrick Area B gave them cancer

Former Frederick residents are gearing up for a town hall meeting Saturday to discuss the possibility that Fort Detrick caused three cases of cancer in their family

Tags: Frederick County , cancer , Frederick County Health Department , CDC

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Detrick's MRMC named best small army lab

The Army has named its Medical Research and Materiel Command the best small research and development lab in the department, marking the first time the Fort Detrick-based group earned such an honor

Tags: Army , Medical Research and Materiel Command , John Frazier Glenn

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Federal agencies to review Fort Detrick cancer data

A group seeking to link Fort Detrick to hundreds of cases of cancer in Frederick met with federal government officials Friday morning to turn over its privately collected data

Tags: cancer , John Bee , EPA

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Fort Detrick caps toxic waste

A Maryland Army facility is now on an exclusive EPA priority list to clean up toxic waste contamination at a field where wastes associated with weapons production were dumped, contaminating the local water supply.

Tags: newsstand , EPA , Superfund , Sen. Ben Cardin , Col. Judith Robinson

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Fort Detrick honors wounded veterans with barbecue

The Fort Detrick community celebrated the Army's 236th birthday on Saturday by honoring wounded service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.

Tags: Wounded Warrior , veterans , wounded warriors , Wounded Warrior Appreciation BBQ , Nallin Farm Pond

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Civil War general's severed leg on display in Md.

The amputated leg of a colorful Civil War general is doing some traveling.

Tags: Daniel Sickles , Civil War , U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command , Philip Barton Key , National Museum of Health and Medicine

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Detrick recalls Holocaust with survivor's speech

Dozens of soldiers and Army civilians gathered Wednesday to listen to Holocaust survivor George Rabinek, a German-born Jew raised in Hungary, tell his story of being moved from one concentration camp to another until American soldiers finally liberated the camps in May 1945.

Tags: George Rabinek , Holocaust , Manuel Venegas , Elissa Gross , Frederick News-Post , Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Report details deficiencies in plans for proposed Detrick facility

Plans for a risk assessment for a proposed Fort Detrick facility are missing a number of critical elements, according to a report issued Friday.

Tags: National Academy of Sciences , National Research Council

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