Meredith Cohn
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- The architecture and interior design firm JMT has acquired RCG Architects and will form JMT Architecture.
- Fire destroyed a Northeast Baltimore home Friday evening but no injuries were reported.
- The former chief financial officer of Baltimore-based Revolution was sentenced to prison Friday for crimes against the employer.
- The actor Reg Cathey, who had roles in The Wire, House of Cards, and other films and TV shows with Baltimore links has died at 59.
- Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced an $81 million settlement from a contractor officials claimed botched a system to rebuild the state's Medicaid system.
- Medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Baltimore's Federal Hill and Hampden neighborhoods without many neighbors noticing.
- The winter Olympics may motivate us all to ski, snowboard or sled, but take precautions to avoid injury.
- A local insurer called the Maryland Joint Insurance Association left personal data from customers accessible online until a cyber security company spotted it.
- Sheppard Pratt Health System plans to acquire the beds from Good Shepherd, a Baltimore County residential treatment facility for adolescents that was shuttered last year after two state agencies stopped sending children there, officials said Tuesday.
- Testing strips that resemble pregnancy tests could be given to people who use drugs so they can avoid dangerous fentanyl, a new report from Johns Hopkins finds.
- More than 3,000 people visited Maryland emergency rooms in the past week with influenza-like illnesses amid what state and federal health officials are calling the worst flu season in years. The flu is so bad that many local hospitals are asking most sick people to avoid the emergency room.
- Baltimore County police are investigating the killing of a 70-year-old woman reported missing by family.
- Baltimore fire officials say two children were killed in a fire Friday evening in the city.
- The University of Baltimore has added protections to student data that state auditors found had been left exposed.
- Dr. Stuart Levine took over as president and chief medical officer at MedStar Harbor Hospital several months ago, though he didn't start out looking to lead a community hospital.
- The opioid epidemic has first responders instituting new policies and deploying drug detection devices to ensure no one accidentally overdoses on fentanyl or analogs that are responsible for thousands of deaths in the state and more around the country.
- Kids' habits and genetics, as well as the amount of space in their mouths, dictate if and when they need braces.
- Paragon Bioservices, a Baltimore-based contract drug maker, said Tuesday that it would expand with a new manufacturing facility for gene therapies near BWI Marshall Airport that will employ more than 200 people.
- MedChi, the state medical society, says Maryland's 17,633 doctors contribute almost $4 billion in economic output.
- Marylandās ambitious program to curb health care spending is meeting that main goal, but it may not yet be transforming the way patients are treated.
- As Imamu Baraka saw hospital security guards outside University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown leaving a woman in her hospital gown near a bus stop, he didnāt stop filming video.
- Maryland is among 26 states reporting high levels of flu, the miserable virus that is easily spread.
- A machine developed at the University of Maryland offers early stage breast cancer patients more precise radiation, reducing the need for surgery.
- Adfinitas Health, which provides hospitalists to several Maryland hospitals, has acquired a stake in a Pennsylvania hospitalist group.
- The Baltimore VA Medical Center is joining other VA centers in turning to a treatment called battlefield acupuncture, among other therapies, to treat pain in former service members as part of an effort to reduce reliance on opioids that no longer work or have lead to substance use problems.
- A Baltimore nonprofit has outfitted a van to offer drug treatment to those leaving the city jail, a population considered at high risk of returning to substance use and overdose.
- Baltimore-based Laureate Education Inc., operator of private, for-profit universities, said it will sell its stake in its Chinese university.
- The Hunt Valley broadcast company Sinclair says it will pay $1,000 bonuses to 9,000 employees following passage of the federal tax bill.
- The fifth open enrollment in Obamacare comes to a close in Maryland, and while signs ups in the state match last year's tally, the Affordable Care Act remains under threat by a series of steps in Washington.
- Camden Partners has closed its venture capital fund Nexus, which focuses on investments in early-stage biomedical technology developed by local companies.
- Scientists at Johns Hopkins University seek to explain why Rudolph's nose glow, the Grinch's heart expands and Scrooge's life flashes before him.
- Two men where shot in separate incidents in Baltimore, and one is pronounced dead.
- The light accumulation of snow Friday that began before the start of rush hour caused a backup on just about every major thoroughfare from Washington through Baltimore, and up a good portion of the East Coast.
- A veterinarian at a Baltimore animal hospital faces several charges of animal cruelty.
- Dr. Peter Pronovost, a well known patient safety researcher and major advocate for checklists, is leaving Johns Hopkins Medicine for the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare.
- CareFirst announced a new effort to combat the opioid crisis at a City Hall event Wednesday that involves handing out grants to nonprofits and better treating their own customers.
- Those seeking health insurance on the stateās exchange will get an extra week to enroll, which is an effort by authorities to avoid a last-minute crush because of the Trump administration shortened the period to sign-up.
- Kevin Sowers on Monday was named the new president of The Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
- Just days after the first medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Maryland, limited supplies and technical difficulties means little is actually available.
- The financial service firm Gross Mendelsohn expands its presence in Northern Virginia by merging with Fairfax firm.
- Complications from the flu can be serious for pregnant women, but there are precautions that can help stave off the virus.
- A Johns Hopkins researcher may have discovered a way to fix the nasal spray version of the flu vaccine, popular with the needle-adverse but dropped after the CDC said it performed poorly.
- U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings requested that the House oversight panel come to Baltimore to hear from experts about the opioid epidemic that's devastating the city and beyond.
- A start-up firm that launched with technology licensed from the University of Maryland School of Medicine was bought by Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology.
- The tobacco industry will run ads in newspapers and on TV stations around the country this weekend outlining the dangers of smoking as a "corrective" action under a court settlement.
- The agency that administers the Maryland health exchange has pulled from its own ranks to fill the executive director position, empty at the start of the current enrollment period.
- Scientists are examining use of an existing drug to treat people who suffer from alcoholism and PTSD, acknowledging that mental health and addiction are commonly linked.
- Eddie Resende, a Brazil native, works to bring international business to Baltimore a the World Trade Center Institute's vice president of operations.
- Tenable, the fast-growing cybersecurityĀ company based in Columbia, plans to relocateĀ its headquarters to downtown Columbia and add hundreds of employees in the next few years.
- Maryland lost 5,500 jobs in October but unemployment remains unchanged at 3.8 percent.