Health

Last year, Marylanders spent an average of 228 minutes — nearly four hours — in emergency rooms before leaving, according to U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data. That’s roughly half an hour more than residents of Delaware, the second-worst state.

Dr. Robert K. Brooner, who had been head of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s Addiction Treatment Services and Center for Addiction and Pregnancy, died.

Marilyn R. Goldwater, an emergency room nurse by training who served 24 years in the Maryland House of Delegates, has died. She was 95.

A Maryland House bill would make Maryland the first state to mandate that all public high school and college institutions provide mental health first-aid training to each participating coach.

Diane Johnson, the retired Sinai Hospital of Baltimore chief nursing officer recalled as a forceful professional leader, died March 10.

The Maryland Senate gave its abortion referendum legislation final approval on a vote of 32-15. The House passed its version last week.

The Baltimore Sun is turning to readers to tell us what the best medical marijuana dispensary is, who is the best budtender in the area and what’s the best Maryland-produced strain.

Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones' bill to ask voters statewide about enshrining a right to an abortion in the state constitution won preliminary approval Wednesday in the House.