Health & Wellness

Elusive cure

Elusive cure

Second of six chapters: For nearly a decade, Dr. Leisha Emens has been driven to develop a vaccine to stop breast cancer

Ask the Expert

Ask the Expert

Health professionals in Maryland answer questions related to their field

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The 'bupe' fix
Promoted by the U.S. as a treatment for opiate addiction, buprenorphine has become one more item for sale in the drug market.

AIDS in Baltimore
Reporter Jonathan Bor and photographer Kim Hairston spent over a year working on this two-part series exploring the roots of the HIV epidemic in Baltimore.

Factor VII
The Sun investigates the potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug known as Recombinant Activated Factor VII.

1918 influenza pandemic
Nearly a century later, the people who lived through it and the victims' families still recall their experiences with the flu.

If I die
The Sun received permission from R.J. Voigt, his mother, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center to be present during the last four weeks of R.J.'s life, except, at his mother's request, his death.

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The Trial of Their Lives
A Hopkins doctor's vaccine offers a hope of survival for four women with terminal breast cancer


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