In the past month nearly 15 million people drove a car within an hour of using marijuana, according to a survey released Wednesday by AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The effects from marijuana can be experienced anywhere from one to four hours after usage. Those under the influence of the drug...
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump administration rules aimed at steering money away from organizations in Baltimore that provide abortion referrals. The rules issued in March apply to so-called Title X family planning funding, and city officials who brought the lawsuit against the administration...
Maryland and the federal government will recoup millions of dollars spent on the disastrous rollout of the state’s health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act under a settlement with IBM, which supplied the technology. Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and the U.S. Attorney...
Medical cannabis regulators in Maryland expanded testing for heavy metals in marijuana products as they warned the public about the risk for possible lead contamination in popular vaping devices. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission issued an advisory late Friday “to notify patients and other...
Howard County has reached a $3 million deal with a private company to build an inpatient drug treatment center there with beds reserved for county residents. In what Howard officials say is a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership, the county will pay Delphi Behavioral Health Group $750,000...
Former state Sen. Francis X. Kelly resigned Friday from the University of Maryland Medical System Board of Directors — just days after fellow board members had asked him to return — amid continued fallout from the self-dealing scandal that has rocked the hospital network. In a letter to outgoing...
Even the saltiest of sea dogs can be prone to bouts of illness aboard cruise ships, but Maryland vacationers may take comfort in knowing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention closely monitors health standards on commercial ships. Much like restaurants, cruise ships — including those...
The University of Maryland Medical Center dropped a plan Wednesday to seek more revenue from patients, a request that critics had called ill-timed in light of allegations of improper spending and above-average profits by the 13-hospital University of Maryland Medical System. The downtown Baltimore...
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan named Wednesday his initial batch of new appointees to the troubled board of directors at the University of Maryland Medical System, the first step toward reorganizing the board following a scandal over board members having lucrative contracts with the 13-hospital system....
From time to time over the past few months, employees at the Maryland Book Bank have found a trash bag waiting for them on their loading dock in Woodberry — each one stuffed with “Healthy Holly” books. “Every time they’ve come in, it’s never been just five or six” books, said Kim Crout, the nonprofit...
Dr. Robert E. Trattner, who gave up dentistry for psychiatry, died May 23 of pneumonia at his Roland Park Place home. He was 98. Robert Edward Trattner was born and raised in Cleveland and graduated in 1937 from nearby Wickliffe High School. He was a 1941 graduate of what is now Case Western Reserve...
Fatal overdoses linked to the highly potent synthetic opioid fentanyl dipped in the first three months of 2019 in Maryland, leading to a decline in the total number of drug and alcohol deaths for the first time in years. The overall drop was just under 15 percent to 577 total deaths, with fewer...