National cannabis companies eager to expand their share of the growing U.S. medical marijuana industry are poised to acquire companies with Maryland licenses despite a state rule that limits such consolidation and a new law barring any ownership changes for another year. A Baltimore Sun investigation...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans to run an ad in Baltimore Tuesday evening showing what it’s like for animals used in medical experiments, but the animal will be a teddy bear. PETA, known for graphic billboards and stunts to highlight animal cruelty, said a real animal would be...
Federal health officials on Thursday reported the first death in an ongoing salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the death was in California but didn't have any immediate details. Since last November, the agency said 164 people have fallen...
Maryland hospitals were safer for patients this fall than they were six months ago, according to the latest assessment from the Leapfrog Group. Maryland ranked 38th of all states for safety in the group’s biannual Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, with 20 percent of Maryland hospitals receiving...
Close to a third of Maryland workers who filed injury compensation claims in recent years continued to rely on highly addictive opioid painkillers three months after they were hurt, according to a recent study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers. Excessive use of painkillers...
Maryland may have allowed residents who did not qualify for Medicaid into the government health program for the poor by failing to consider all of their income, according to a routine audit of the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the Maryland health exchange. The Maryland Health Benefit...
Two residents of an independent-living apartment complex on the campus of Stella Maris, a nonprofit long-term care facility in Timonium, were diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease, officials confirmed Tuesday. Stella Maris notified state and Baltimore County health officials and building residents...
Johns Hopkins doctors have set up shop and worked in Saudi Arabia, treating its citizen’s health needs, since at least 2010. The Baltimore medical system has thrived in the Middle Eastern nation under the auspices of spreading good health care throughout the world, but done so against a backdrop...
Voters and candidates of both parties repeatedly made it clear that health care was a pressing issue leading up to Tuesday's midterm elections. To be sure, there was a 2018 twist: Republicans who once ran on wanting to eliminate President Barack Obama 's landmark health-care law now repeatedly...
Women should wait a year or more between having babies, to reduce health risks to themselves and their infants, researchers report. "Our study found increased risks to both mother and infant when pregnancies are closely spaced, including for women older than 35," said lead author Laura Schummers,...
Not long after taking over as warden of the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Margaret M. Chippendale noticed a sizable problem: Women were leaving the system a lot heavier than when they arrived. She made an easy connection in the dining hall. The women were being served the...
Steve Plotts remembers the last time he had the flu — it was in 2005, to be exact — all too well. Every year since then, the 65-year-old White Marsh man and his wife, Linda, have been coming to the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, for free flu shots, administered by staff of MedStar...