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Well & Wise is a health-education partnership forged by Howard County General Hospital and the Howard County Library System - Marijuana policy bears no relation to the drug's actual risks or benefits
- States don't regulate compounding pharmacies well and FDA should be given more oversight, report finds
- The FDA found mold, bacteria and other foreign matter at New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy linked to nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis
- Maryland Health Secretary Joshua M. Sharfstein and other criticize compounding pharmacies in JAMA article in wake of meningitis outbreak
- Science shows gay and lesbian couples are good parents
- Some common fallacies about the effect of same-sex unions on children
- The collapse of a soccer goal on a Howard County practice field has led the state's highest court to reconsider more than 150 years of personal injury law, in a case that could significantly improve injured plaintiffs' chances of winning payouts.
- Critic of gay marriage missed the mark with her arguments
- Letter-writer who panned same-sex marriage relied on bad research
- Violent crime gets the headlines, but we need to do more to prevent unnecessary substance-abuse deaths
- An unusually large number of people have come down with the respiratory disease whooping cough this year around the nation, and in Maryland, prompting public health officials to issue warnings about booster shots for adults and children.
- Maryland's medical community is concerned about the potential fallout from two multimillion-dollar malpractice judgments awarded by Baltimore juries to families who blamed local hospitals where their babies were delivered for their children's disabilities.
- Maryland's medical community is concerned about the potential fallout from two multi-million dollar malpractice judgments awarded by Baltimore juries to families who blamed local hospitals where their babies were delivered for their children's disabilities.
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- The NRA didn't kill those people in a Colorado movie theater
- Fewer Americans than previously thought are controlling their HIV infections and potentially putting the public at higher risk, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins University and University of Pennsylvania.
- Supreme Court ruling upholding Affordable Care Act puts the United States on the road toward eventually covering everyone
- Dr. Edward Lawrence Suarez-Murias, a retired psychiatrist and World War II veteran, died of pneumonia July 2 at his Roland Park home. He was 96.
- Supreme Court upholds health care reform law, offering access to millions
- Two Hopkins med students are urging doctors to set good examples for their patients regarding nutrition and exercise
- In a letter to the editor of the Laurel Leader, a Laurel resident writes that public subsidies are not to blame for health issues in our country.
- John Stewart Croucher, a retired hospital assistant engineer and World War II naval veteran, died of a stroke May 29 at the Gilchrist Hospice Center. The Bel Air resident was 90.
- Dr. Frank Anthony Faraino, a retired Baltimore thoracic and vascular surgeon whose career spanned more than four decades, died Saturday of renal failure at his Timonium home. He was 90.
- Health care reform means a lot more patients in the system, but the nation doesn't fund enough residency slots to meet the need
- Hopkins researchers find helicopter better than ambulance for severely injured patients
- The Independent Payment Advisory Board created by the Affordable Care Act will reduce the availability of Medicare services for seniors.
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- Veteran child psychiatrist Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez remembered for his light touch with young patients and early work on autism
- Mark Midei tells his side of the stent story in an exclusive interview with The Baltimore Sun, his first extended comments since inquiries into unnecessary medical procedures were initiated against him in May 2009.
- Arab Spring: U.S. failure to denounce punishment of those who cared for Bahrain protesters is shameful
- New research arms doctors with more information that could lead to reduced risk
- Sexual orientation shouldn't be a determinant in adoption cases
- Maryland's adoption statute is silent on same-sex parents, leaving the matter to the discretion of each circuit court judge. Baltimore, according to adoption lawyers, appears to be the only jurisdiction where judges have agreed to treat homosexual couples just like straight couples. Other jurisdictions, attorneys say, are a gamble for would-be parents who are gay.
- Dr. H. Leonard Warres, a World War II combat surgeon who later became a radiologist and was head of outpatient radiology at what is now the University of Maryland Medical Center, died Wednesday of multiple organ failure at North Oaks retirement community in Pikesville. He was 99.
- Dr. H. Leonard Warres, a World War II combat surgeon who later became a radiologist and was head of out-patient radiology at what is now the University of Maryland Medical Center, died Wednesday of multiple organ failure at North Oaks retirement community in Pikesville. He was 99.
- Medical-religious partnerships can address health needs of an aging society
- The Havre de High School Hall of Fame Committee Wednesday announced the six people it has chosen for the Hall of Fame's second class that will be inducted in October.
- Comparisons of gay marriage to polygamy and worse belie a lack of understanding about homosexuality.
- Two weeks after abrupt resignation, St. Joseph Medical Center replaces CEO
- A federal jury convicted John R. McLean, a retired Eastern Shore cardiologist, of health care fraud and related charges for placing unnecessary coronary stents in the arteries of dozens of patients and billing private and public insurers millions of dollars for the superfluous procedures.
- Hopkins doctor says state can intervene to protect a child from harm, but removal should be a last resort
- Its 12 master's students now make use of Photoshop and Flash animation, but as it turns 100 years, the Department of Art As Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins still teaches "educating through pictures"
