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Area Restaurants Aim to Make Healthy Eating Easier
The Baltimore Sun, January 15, 2013
Knowing the right way to eat is one thing, but doing it is not always easy, especially when dining out. But some Baltimore-area restaurants are making heart-healthy dining easier and more attractive for their diners...One of the biggest obstacles to healthy eating in restaurants, according to Dr. Roger Blumenthal, founder of the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins, is portion control.

Band of Doctors Play for Charity
ABC2News, January 11, 2012
They don't do weddings or bar mitzvah's, but they do by pass surgeries and lung transplants. The band is back. Meet Stevie V and The Heart Attackers for one night only...Out of the operating room and onto the stage one night a year. The doctors will preform on January 19th as Heartfest has been revived. This is an event that raises money for the Ciccarone Center at Johns Hopkins.