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Dr. Robert Irving Levy, pioneering nephrologist, World War II Navy veteran and classical pianist, dies

Dr. Robert Irving Levy, a pioneering nephrologist, World War II Navy veteran and classical pianist, died May 10. He was 97.

Dr. Donald L. Price, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor and Alzheimer’s researcher, dies

Dr. Donald L. Price, a retired Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor, died May 5 at his Greenville, North Carolina, home. He was 87.

‘A long time coming’: Four years after its creation, Maryland drug affordability board drafts plan

Maryland’s first-in-the-nation Prescription Drug Affordability Board is meeting Monday to review its first draft of a plan to determine which drugs to subject to cost reviews and to start figuring out how to set upper payment limits for state and local governments.

With recreational cannabis imminent, Marylanders try to draw line between consumption and impairment

Baltimore County Police and the Chesapeake Region Safety Council hosted the green lab — where medical cannabis patients got high — to give officers and workplace safety professionals firsthand experience determining the line between safe consumption and impairment.

Graphics: The latest Maryland COVID cases, vaccinations and other metrics

View visualizations of Maryland COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

Baltimore’s CFG Bank has grown its own way, quadrupling in size in just a few years

CFG Bank has blossomed into the biggest bank headquartered in the Baltimore metropolitan area.

New UM Laurel Medical Center to open June 4; emergency, surgical care but no inpatient beds

The new University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center is poised to open early next month to serve Laurel’s 30,000-some residents and their neighbors with emergency, preventive and behavioral health care, as well as some specialty procedures, but only on an outpatient basis.

Baltimore Medical System, which offers care regardless of ability to pay, opens new Southeast Baltimore health center

Baltimore Medical System, the state's largest federally qualified health center system, will open a new clinic Monday in East Baltimore's Yard 56 mixed-use development next to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Heating up the hot flash market with unnecessary, and potentially harmful, drugs | GUEST COMMENTARY

It appears that Astellas is exaggerating the prevalence and severity of hot flashes to claim a piece of an expanding market.

Immunocompromised, chronically ill people object to Baltimore hospitals’ decisions to drop masking

Some immunocompromised and chronically ill people in Baltimore don't want hospitals, doctors' offices and other health care facilities to do away with masking requirements that they say keep them safe from the coronavirus and other illnesses.

Study: Baltimore children moved from high-poverty to low-poverty areas saw their asthma improve

Children with asthma whose families participated in a Baltimore program that helped move them from high-poverty neighborhoods to low-poverty ones saw their disease get significantly better, according to a study published Tuesday.

17 ‘healthy’ foods that are actually ruining your diet

Losing weight is a very common goal year-round. And while eating healthier foods, avoiding junk and fatty foods, and being more physically active sounds simple, the reality is much more complex. It's frustrating when you believe you have been doing everything right not to see the scale budge. What could be wrong? Though the reasons can be many, the answer may also be in what you're eating.

Baltimore taking steps to prepare for state funds from legal cannabis sales

The Baltimore City Council is voting on a plan to set up a commission to review how to best spend tax revenue from recreational cannabis sales.

Baltimore native Dr. Marcia Henson-Coakley, public school teacher and dentist, dies

Dr. Marcia Henson-Coakley, a retired Woodlawn dentist, died May 7 at Sinai Hospital. She was 72.

CNN reporter from West Baltimore discovers his interracial roots, bonds with white mother he never knew

CNN reporter and West Baltimore native John Blake wishes he could give a copy of his new memoir to his mother for Mother's Day.

‘We believe you’: The work of nurses at GBMC’s sexual assault unit goes beyond medical exams

The nurses of Greater Baltimore Medical Center's Sexual Assault Forensic Examination program help survivors as they cry and listen ― without judgment or condescension ― as they tell their stories. They also help them relate their stories to police, if the victim wants to, and collect any evidence.

Catholic leaders named in cover-ups remain active in parish ministries, boards in Baltimore archdiocese

Several priests who covered up abuse in the Baltimore archdiocese work in parishes and serve on the boards of Catholic institutions.

Novavax, a Maryland-based COVID-19 vaccine maker, to chop workforce, expenses

Novavax is cutting about a quarter of its global workforce as the COVID-19 vaccine maker seeks to slash expenses while dealing with uncertain future revenue.

Catholic Church leader resigns from Towson hospital board after Sun reveals role in abuse cover-ups

Monsignor Richard “Rick” Woy of the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has resigned from the board of St. Joseph Medical Center.

‘It’s an old-boy network’: Survivors feel disgust, vindication after Sun names church officials in abuse cover-ups

Abuse survivors call for more transparency after The Baltimore Sun named Catholic Church officials in abuse cover-ups.

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