Two Frederick-based companies are seeking permission to market a cannabis-infused non-alcoholic beer in Maryland for patients approved to use medical marijuana. Called Hop Chronic, the Indian pale ale would be a joint venture of Flying Dog Brewery and Green Leaf Medical Cannabis. The beer would...
Looking to relieve her miniature dachshund Parky’s arthritis, Plainfield mother of two Teressa Sworsky discovered hemp oil. After researching the exploding industry of products infused with cannabidiol, or CBD, Sworsky, 36, a registered nurse who works full time in the corporate office of a hospital...
The Hogan administration announced Thursday that it wants to increase state spending on addiction treatment and substance abuse prevention to escalate efforts that have so far failed to reverse an ever-increasing death toll from opioid overdoses in Maryland. The administration’s budget proposal...
Dr. James E. Fragetta, a popular Lutherville pediatrician who as a member of the medical advisory board of the Claire Marie Foundation worked to develop melanoma prevention programs, died Sunday from pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Center Towson. The longtime Gaywood resident was 58. “First of all,...
Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller is among hundreds of thousands of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. The American Cancer Society projects 174,650 men will be diagnosed in 2019 alone. The prognosis varies by patient, but here’s a primer on prostate cancer. How...
As opioid overdose deaths continued to mount in Maryland last year, state lawmakers asked medical marijuana regulators to determine whether cannabis could be effective at treating addiction to heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone. The answer — not really — was submitted to the General Assembly this week...
The Johns Hopkins Medicine Board of Trustees has appointed a former federal prosecutor to review the Heart Institute at All Children’s Hospital in Florida after a Tampa Bay Times investigation found high injury and death rates among pediatric patients at the center. F. Joseph Warin of the law firm...
Almost a year after an embarrassing patient-dumping incident, the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus announced an overhaul of its behavioral health unit so it can see more patients arriving in crisis at the Baltimore hospital. The move consolidates services between the midtown...
My mom lightly shook my shoulders. Groggy, I sat up and looked down at the catheter bag hanging below me. I checked my phone: No notifications. He knew I was recovering, but I hadn't filled him in on too many details. I texted him earlier to say that, save for a last-minute hiccup, all was going...
The furloughing of hundreds of Food and Drug Administration inspectors has sharply reduced inspections of the nation's food supply - one of many repercussions of the partial government shutdown that make Americans potentially less safe. The agency, which oversees 80 percent of the food supply,...
Several types of hearing devices will now be covered by Medicaid in Maryland for those over age 21, the Department of Health and the Governor’s Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing announced Wednesday. Previously, the federal-state health program for the poor only covered hearing devices for those...
Teens who are often bullied may be left with shrinkage in key parts of their brain, increasing their risk for mental illness, European researchers report. They said such shrinkage eventually appears to create a growing sense of anxiety, even after taking into account the possible onset of other...