Andrea K. McDaniels

The Baltimore Museum of Art later this year will open an exhibit serving as the first major retrospective of native filmmaker John Waters’ art in his hometown.

An 81-year-old woman died after a house fire in the 2300 block of Orem Avenue in Northwest Baltimore early Sunday morning, according to the Baltimore Fire Department.

Attorneys for Baltimore have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of a lower court’s decision that pregnancy clinics cannot be required to disclose to patients in their waiting area that they don’t provide abortions.

An annual look at people’s health by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute found Montgomery County is the healthiest and Baltimore City the unhealthiest in the state.

Dr. Robert Redfield, an AIDS expert with the University of Maryland School of Medicine has been appointed the new director of the Centers for Disease Control.

Federal regulators cited The University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown campus on several violations related to a January case where a patient was put out on the street in just a hospital gown.

Some nurses at the Johns Hopkins Hospital are attempting to form a union, saying that they are overworked, union officials said Monday.

Mercy Medical Center said Monday it is opening an expanded primary care and pediatric office to serve more patients.

Baltimore city health officials said they have opened the latest virtual supermarket at Ruscombe Gardens apartments in Northwest Baltimore.

Medical students from Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland join thousands of medical students across the country for Match Day, a rite of passage where they learn where they will do their residencies.

Medical student from Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland learn where they will do their residencies during the annual right of passage known as Match Day.

Teens may be in violent dating relationships without their parents knowledge.

Tens of millions of African-Americans are disproportionately affected by chronic kidney disease. African Americans are three times more likely than whites to have the disease. While they make up 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, they account for more than 35 percent of those on dialysis.

Charles A. Harper, a chemical engineer who worked on projects for NASA, died from complications of pneumonia Feb. 26 at Brightview Mays Chapel Ridge retirement community.

BGE has restored power to most households in the Baltimore area, with about 65,000 still remaining in the dark Sunday morning after a wind storm sent trees toppling into utility lines Friday and Saturday.

Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire Sunday morning at the historic Grace Memorial Baptist Church, where congregants had been attending Sunday school.

A Baltimore nursing assistant will spend the next 18 months in jail for filing $31,975 in false insurance claims, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office announced Friday.

A report by a commission looking at rural health care needs found a shortage of doctors, among other disparities.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has received a $10 million grant to open a cochlear center to study hearing loss.

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center has submitted an application to the state for $60 million in hospital renovations.

The number of transgender people getting gender reassignment surgery has increased as more insurers cover the procedures, according to new research by Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Chase Brexton workers vote in first-ever union contract.

The president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute will retire in the next few months after a successor is found to head the institute.

Integrace Copper Ridge has a monthly social club for people with dementia, who might have trouble communicating and carrying on a conversation as they once could.

A 26-year-old man was found shot to death in a house on Smallwood Street.

Johns Hopkins University joined a growing number of among universities and colleges around the country in publicly assuring high school students that their admissions chances won’t be hurt if they protest gun violence.

A comparison of health costs across five states by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement found that Maryland costs in Maryland were on average 16 percent lower.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome M. Adams gave the keynote speech Thursday to members of The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.

More than half of gun owners do not safely store all their guns, according to a new survey of 1,444 gun owners by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The placenta is supposed to expel from the womb after birth, but a condition called placenta accreta prevents this from happening in some women.

Bon Secours of Marriottsville announced today it is merging with Mercy Health, which operates hospitals in Kentucky and Ohio

The General Assembly will hold hearings this week on whether to require Marylanders to buy health insurance after federal officials repealed such an individual mandate at the federal level.

The Maryland Hospital Association hires longtime health consultant and advisor Bob Atlas as its new president and CEO.

Years of training make athletes quick thinkers and decision makers.

Vitamin infusions have become popular among those seeking hydration or an extra boost of energy, but some doctors question if there is any real health benefit.

The University of Maryland Medical Center has hired a new president and announced other leadership changes at the hospital where a patient was found last month outside in just a hospital gown

A study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found a court decision in 2006 resulted in a significant drop in prosecutions of background check violations meant to prevent criminals from getting guns.

El cáncer de mama es la principal causa de muerte entre las mujeres hispanas, la comunidad médica está utilizando la divulgación para tratar de reducir la disparidad.

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanic women and the medical community is using outreach to try and lower the disparity.

The state's first child of the season has died from flu.

Christopher Joseph Kauffman, a historian who wrote nearly a dozen books on the Catholic Church, died Tuesday from complications of dementia.

A wintry mix has turned to rain in many parts of the Baltimore area as temperatures have warmed up.

Del. Dan Morhaim, who has represented the Owings Mills area for 24 years, said he is retiring next year from the Maryland General Assembly.

A man who was shot in the head in East Baltimore last week has died from his injuries, police said Sunday.

Maryland state police are among departments across the country trying to find the origins of child pornography video circulating around the internet and social media.

The United Arab Emirates has gifted Johns Hopkins Medicine $50 million to create a global stroke center to come up with better ways to treat a disease that kills and disables millions of people in both countries.

Some aging and medical groups are trying to get more recognition for sarcopenia, or age-related muscle loss, which they believe leads to other health problems in the elderly.

Fentanyl continues to lead the state's opioid deaths in the latest figures released by the Maryland Department of Health.

Apple announced an upgrade to its health app that will allow Johns Hopkins patients to see their medical records on their iPhones.

A new initiative announced by Governor Larry Hogan Tuesday to combat the opioid epidemic would look at turning the recently closed Baltimore men's jail into a treatment center for inmates.