Health centers win funding to expand services

Is the price Americans pay for cancer treatment worth the results?

Healthcare in the United States has a reputation for being pricier than care in other countries.&...

Unnecessary medicine: Physician groups list 45 overused tests, procedures

Should you get a cardiac stress test as part of your annual checkup? A chest X-ray before outpatient...

Bad omen for healthcare law: Many comments from the justices

How well can Supreme Court votes be predicted by what justices say in oral arguments? The statistics...

Supreme Court begins hearings on health care law

It was 1942 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Congress could influence wheat prices by...

Maryland launches health care reform website

The state will launch a website today that it hopes will give people a road map to health care...

Campaign to highlight options for uninsured

For those who have heart disease, cancer, diabetes or another condition, buying health insurance can...

Doctors with electronic systems order more imaging tests

Doctors who have access to computer test results order more tests than doctors who don’t,...

Understanding healthcare reform: A picture's worth 1,000 words

Still overwhelmed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? You know, what the critics call...

Lyme disease tick study stirs dispute

Hundreds of Baltimore-area families have volunteered for a government study to spray their suburban yards with pesticide, which...

University of Maryland, Baltimore to revamp teaching on pain

As part of a federal project aimed at better treating pain, the University of Maryland, Baltimore will begin revamping the way it teaches...

Researchers eye saliva for patient testing

No one likes to get stuck with a needle.

Injury prevention laws save lives, report shows

Tens of thousands of lives have been saved over the years because Americans more routinely wear seat belts and don't drive drunk.

Johns Hopkins develops implantable disk for managing cancer pain

An estimated 3.5 million cancer patients around the globe are in severe pain from their disease, but many get no relief.

Columbia firm is world's first to market with stem cell drug

A Columbia-based biotechnology company said...

Maryland doctors probe old cases for lead exposure

A day after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cut in half the threshold for determining lead exposure in the nation's...

Bacteria that caused flesh-eating infection more common than believed

The story of a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting a flesh-eating disease has prompted a microbiologist with the Veterans...

Cummings introduces bill to hold down the price of needed drugs

In an effort to address prescription drug shortages nationwide, U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings introduced a bill Tuesday to reform the way so-...

Maryland looking to beef up vaccine requirements

Maryland's children would be required to get more vaccines before attending school under a proposal being considered by state health...