Andrea K. McDaniels

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers have recommended that Baltimore open two facilities that provide people a safe place to do drugs and help prevent fatal overdoses. In a report published and commissioned by the non-profit Abell Foundation, the researchers suggest opening one facility on the east side of the city and the other on the west.

Johns Hopkins Medicine said Tuesday it will work with health real estate firm Welltower Inc. to come up with programs and explore developing facilities to serve and treat the aging population.

States that legalized same sex marriage prior to a Supreme Court decision that made it federal law saw a sharp decline in adolescent suicide attempts, according to an analysis by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

As doctors face pressure to prescribe fewer opioids and other narcotics that can lead to addiction in some patients they are pushing for alternative ways to treat pain.

Hospitals throughout the state are dealing with a sharp increase in the number of babies born exposed to drugs as the opiate epidemic hits the youngest victims before they leave the womb.

The eldest son of Henrietta Lacks wants compensation from Johns Hopkins University for the unauthorized use of her cells in research that led to decades of medical advances.

A pharmacology professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore will no longer conduct research at the school after eight of his articles were retracted from a major scientific journal for inaccuracies.

Behavioral Health System Baltimore, the non-profit that manages the city's mental and behavioral health programs, has promoted an executive within the organization to become its new president and CEO. Crista M. Taylor, the organization's current vice president for programs, will take the lead role Mar. 4.

President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates late Monday after she announced the Justice Department would not defend his travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries – embroiling the administration in controversy for a third day.

While a federal judge halted a ban on refugees, it has left many immigrants feeling uncertain and universities and medical schools worried about how it will affect recruitment efforts.

The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults said many people like Ellis who are undergoing life-saving cancer treatments face the same dilemma. To help make cancer care easier for people aged 15 to 39, the group is building a house in Baltimore where patients and their families can stay while getting treated.

Anti-abortion demonstrators flooded Washington Friday for the annual March for Life saying they felt empowered and hopeful that the election of President Donald J. Trump could result in a rollback of laws and programs that allow women to end pregnancies.

GE Healthcare confirmed Thursday it will shut down a plant in Laurel that employs about 180 people making incubators and warmers for hospital neonatal intensive care units. The company will take the next 12 to 24 months to transfer the work in that facility to a site it operates in Wisconsin, GE said.

In an attempt to bring awareness to the rippling effect that Alzheimer's can have, the Public Broadcasting Services, or Maryland Public Television locally, will air a documentary about the disease Wednesday at 10 p.m. The documentary Alzheimer's: Every Minute Counts, features families dealing with the disease

Insurance company Aetna said Tuesday it has joined with a University of Maryland physicians group to better coordinate patient care in a partnership it hopes will improve health outcomes and lower costs.

There is a growing movement by insurers and others to do health screenings at barbershop to try and address health disparities that make racial minorities more prone to certain illnesses. The health companies hope that by going to one of the most frequented and trusted institutions in the African-American community they can encourage them to get preventive care that can help fend off fatal ailments such as colon cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Chase Brexton Health announced Thursday that it has hired an executive from Saint Agnes Hospital as its new president and CEO, just two months after the previous head said he was leaving following contention with the health center's employees.

Patients are ending up with large bills from doctors outside of their insurance network that they never even chose to use for their procedures, according to new research by Johns Hopkins.

A doctor's practice affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Medicine has notified patients that somebody hacked the account of an employee's email account that contained the personal information of patients.

Many sarcomas are overlooked by patients or misdiagnosed by physicians who are not familiar with the tumors. Any abnormal lump, bump or mass should be evaluated by a specialist, typically an orthopedic oncologist

As wellness trips have become more affordable in recent years, a more diverse crowd has embarked on holistic cruises, detox retreats, surfing adventures and weight loss camps.

The Maryland Insurance Administration and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or NAIC, announced Tuesday that a database had been created that will help families find lost life insurance policies and annuities of deceased relatives.

The country's top cancer centers, including two in Baltimore, have combined efforts to endorse new recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control that doctors believe will help improve use of the vaccine to treat human papillomavirus, which can lead to deadly cervical, throat and other cancers.

Maryland is one of seven states chosen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to participate in a two-year pilot program that will allow food stamp recipients to buy groceries online for the first time.

Several companies that will grow and process medicinal marijuana in Maryland announced Friday the formation of The Maryland Wholesale Medical Cannabis Trade Association.

Plavix is a blood thinner that prevents the blood from clotting around stents after surgery, which can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with heart disease. But the drug only works when a liver enzyme in the body activates it. About 30 percent of people have at least one gene variation that might prevent this activation and make the drug less effective.

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The rare condition twin anemia polycythemia sequence,occurs when there are unequal blood counts between fetuses in the womb and one baby saps too much blood, leaving another one deficient. In the worst cases babies can die.

Scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified seven proteins within the deadly Zika virus that could be to blame for the birth defects linked to the pathogen.

Dr. Ryan Katz and James Higgins from the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital said the surgery is the first of its kind performed in the United States.

Negative feelings associated with isolation can become more pronounced around the holidays, which emphasize celebrating with friends and families.

A disease of the esophagus called achalasia makes it difficult and painful for some people to swallow food.

If a tax on soda and other sugary drinks were implemented in Baltimore it could bring in $25.6 million to go toward health programs and help reduce rates of diabetes and obesity, according to new research by Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The American Diabetes Association Maryland Chapter will work with veterans, which have higher rates than the general population, through a partnership it announced Tuesday with a residential treatment program.

Two children died in a house fire early this morning, less than a week after a young brother and sister died in a fire in East Baltimore. A 10-year-old and one-year old died in the Saturday fire, which engulfed a house at 2441 Dorton Court at about 1:55 a.m

Mike O'Connor's life was in a funk. The Canton man was once a social butterfly. He enjoyed going to bars and meeting new people. Then he suffered a traumatic brain injury.

About one hundred people marched toward the M&T Bank Stadium from the Inner Harbor to protest President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the Army-Navy football game.

The president of Sinai Hospital, Amy Perry, is stepping down after four years to take an executive position with a New Jersey health company.

The University of Maryland School of Medicine will use a $5 million federal grant to tackle childhood obesity by helping teachers, parents and students come up with ways to practice healthy habits in schools.

Baltimore police have arrested a second teenager accused of attacking Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki" Spector last week in a residential parking garage in South Baltimore.

Environmentalists and Baltimore lawmakers Sunday unveiled a second water wheel, "Professor Trash Wheel," at Harris Creek Park in Canton.

For more than a year now, therapists at the Lorien Health assisted nursing facility in Columbia have been using virtual reality and video games to help treat people with swallowing disorders.

Maryland's hospitals in the past year provided nearly $1.6 billion in services outside of that traditionally provided in the emergency room, operating room or hospital, according to the Maryland Hospital Association. The hospital association said its members spent 10 percent of their operating expenses on non-traditional services, or community benefits, such chronic disease management programs and free health education programs for the community.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and NYU School of Medicine have found in separate studies that the psychedelic drug psilocybin significantly reduced anxiety, depression and other emotional distress in cancer patients after just one dose.

The 31st annual Trouble in Toyland report, released Tuesday by consumer watchdog group Maryland Public Interest Research Group, found that more than a dozen toys recalled for reasons, such as high levels of lead and containing small pieces that a child could swallow, can still be found in some online stores.

Maryland lawmakers and health officials Monday proved they are moving ahead with enrolling people in health plans despite threats by president-elect Donald J. Trump to dismantle parts of the Affordable Care Act.

Just 1 percent of the 16,000 doctors who treat patients in Maryland have signed up to for the state's medical marijuana program, and two of the largest hospital systems in the state have banned their physicians from participating.

Drew Hawkins, managing director and head of global sports & entertainment for financial firm Morgan Stanley, has built a $35 billion division of the worldwide financial firm representing models, athletes, coaches and actors, who he says have unique financial needs.

The University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development has been awarded a $36.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to promote vaccines for typhoid fever, which kills a quarter million people a year worldwide. The money will be used to set up the Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium, a partnership with the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford and PATH, a global health organization based in Seattle.