Andrea K. McDaniels

The amount of kids with autism in the United States increased 15 percent to 1 in 58 children, according to new data by the Centers for Disease Control.

A new hospital safety report by Leapfrog found that the overall performance of Maryland hospitals has improved.

People around the world, including in Maryland, are participating in a program called Rock Steady Boxing designed to manage the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

The Johns Hopkins reconstructive surgery team performed the world’s first transplant of a penis and scrotum on a wounded soldier.

Hospital emergency rooms in Maryland are being overwhelmed by a big jump in patients with mental health and substance-use issues.

Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen is the latest to warn about the dangers of synthetic marijuana after four people in the state this month were hospitalized for extreme bleeding after taking the drugs.

The Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine will lead a $100 million project to survey the impact of HIV programs in Nigeria.

There is not much people can do to prevent macular degeneration, a leading cause of severe visual loss in older people, but there are ways to cope with it.

Baltimore city officials launched a campaign Monday to curb the rates of elderly who fall and wind up in the hospital by 20 percent over the next decade.

After one year back in Baltimore, the Susan G. Komen Maryland Race for the Cure, which raises money for breast cancer research, will move to Columbia this fall to what organizers called a more centralized location that they hope will attract more people from throughout the state.

State poison officials said Monday that three more people have been hospitalized for extreme bleeding after using synthetic marijuana.

Baltimore City officials will announce a citywide initiative Monday to curb the rate of number of in the city, which are 20 percent higher than the rest of the state.

The General Assembly passed bills this legislative session to require large insurers to pay for fertility preservation for cancer patients.

The decision to close the pediatric emergency room at Medstar Franklin Square hospital has caused an uproar from the community and hospital staff, who say MedStar has abandoned its mission to serve the community in the pursuit of profits.

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An independent audit has found that a program to curb health spending in Maryland has saved hundreds of million of dollars in its first three years, but another study found no direct link between the program and any cost savings or reduced hospital use by patients in its pilot years.

There's the g we typically write (with an open hook) and the typeset version that appears in books, newspapers, product labels and other printed materials. A study by Johns Hopkins University found that most people don't know there were two versions.

Doctors have made progress in recent years to reduce the prescription of methadone to fight pain amid efforts to reduce use of the drug after a spate of overdose deaths, a study by The Pew Charitable Trusts found.

person from Central Maryland was hospitalized for extreme bleeding after A using synthetic marijuana — the first such case in Maryland, poison control officials said Thursday.

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Franklin Square Medical Center is closing much of its pediatric division as patient numbers have dropped.

Even though they weren't born when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, young activists say his legacy still lives on in their work.

MedStar Health will open a new cancer center at its Good Samaritan Hospital in Northeast Baltimore next week.

After complaints over the past few years, Johns Hopkins first-year residents will no longer wear the traditional white coats that signify they are still learning about their profession.

Johns Hopkins researchers have moved forward with an alcohol study despite a New York Times investigation that criticized it for being funded by the alcohol industry.

One day after Under Armour notified users of a security breach of a fitness app, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said Friday it was victimized by another sort of computer attack — a “phishing” email scheme

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said that 6,800 patients were hit in a phishing scheme.

LifeBridge Health patients will be able to sell their medical records in one place on their iPhones thanks to an upgrade in Apple health app.

City and state officials plan to announce Wednesday that they’ve secured funding for a stabilization center, a safe place where drug users can go so they are not taking up hospital beds, in Baltimore. The center, the first in Maryland, will be located at the old Hebrew Orphan Asylum on Rayner Avenue.

A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers has found that the heaviest drug users should get training on how to administer naloxone, a drug which can reverse an overdose.

Baltimore public works officials will announce a plan Monday to use a new form of financing to help pay for $10 million in green infrastructure projects designed to reduce water pollution from stormwater runoff.

Brief, heavy snowstorms known as snow squalls are causing risky driving conditions in parts of the Baltimore region, according to the National Weather Service.

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.