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Maryland gets more money for health reform as law faces legal setback
Even as the federal health care reform law appears to be headed to the Supreme Court after another legal setback Friday, Maryland received...
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Raising Medicare costs may be gaining traction
The heated debate over the federal deficit has pumped new life into controversial proposals for...
Four counties receive $1 million for school-based health care
The U.S. government awarded about $1 million in federal grants Thursday to four Maryland counties to...
Hopkins clerical workers to lose jobs
About 160 clerical associates will lose their jobs by the end of this year at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
U.S. healthcare spending far outpaces other countries
Spending on healthcare in the United States continued to far outpace other industrialized...
National Prevention Strategy aims to keep Americans healthier, living longer
Replace deep fryers in cafeterias with salad bars. Add miles of safe, lighted sidewalks and bike...
New website to help patients compare doctors, hospitals
Consumers looking to compare doctors and hospitals are getting a new resource as the Robert Wood...
Many drugs in short supply at hospitals, pharmacies
For a time this year, a psychiatric hospital run by the state of Maryland didn't have enough...
'Mystery shoppers' will help government make healthcare diagnoses
Spy, snoop, survey, assess, analyze, quantify — pick your favorite verb to describe the...
Rick Perry's stem cell surgery worries some doctors
Like most card-carrying conservatives, Texas Gov. Rick Perry opposes research on embryonic pluripotent stem cells.
Md. panel on medical pot eyes academic centers to run program
As proposals take shape for a medical marijuana program in Maryland, the state is considering an approach that would put academic centers...
The power of balance
Serelee Hefler tells the students in her class, including a 66-year-old man and a woman who is six months' pregnant, that they are on a ship...
Md. Politics: Cardin weighs in on NIH funding bias study
Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin called on the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health to re-evaluate its grant-making process in light of a...
Audit finds vital records not properly protected
The state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is not properly securing birth, death and marriage certificates, leaving the vital records...
Brochin floats idea of surcharge to pay housing authority lead paint judgments
State Sen. James Brochin suggested Wednesday that a surcharge could be used to help the Housing Authority of Baltimore City pay nearly $12...
Fire Department workers to undergo health screenings
For the first time, all 1,800 Baltimore fire personnel will undergo departmentwide health tests during a wellness project that officials...
Live chat Wednesday: Pregnancy and pain treatment
Thanks for joining us Aug. 17 for a live chat with Dr. Paul Christo of Johns Hopkins on pregnancy and pain treatment. If you're suffering...
Heat a factor in two more Md. deaths
Two more Marylanders have died this summer from heat-related causes. State public health officials said both deaths occurred in Baltimore,...