diseases and illnesses

Arthritis sufferers are experiencing improved joint function, flexibility, strength and outlook after taking part in regular sessions of a controlled form of yoga.

November marks National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and National Caregiver Month. The reality is that Alzheimer's disease (and related dementias) does or will affect us all in some way. It is an unavoidable reality.

Taking a look at each month and what cancers are commemorated then

Immunomic Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing a new type of vaccine based on Johns Hopkins research, has reached a $300 million deal licensing its technology to Japanese company Astellas Pharma.

War and sickness in 1918

Decades-long research on a promising HIV/AIDS vaccine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is moving into the critical human testing stage.

Nearly 200 of those researchers are gathering at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore to share the latest research, and hopefully spark new ideas, in the effort to meet that goal. They were in town for the International Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology, which for the last 17 years has brought together the best minds in AIDS research to help advance ways to treat it.

Two Baltimore institutions will share in $11 million in new funding from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at preventing the spread of germs, which continues to be both a deadly and costly problem in health care settings.

Two local institutions gain dollars under U.S. program to prevent spread of infection

Scratchy throat? Runny nose and itching eyes too? Is it a cold, just allergies or the flu? Do you know what to do? Two Carroll doctors break down the differences between these three fall ailments and how to prevent and treat them.

The number of older adults not getting the shots they need to keep them healthy is significant, so I want to encourage our Howard County seniors to seriously consider talking to their doctor about getting shots, which are important to their future health.

A $20 million federal grant will allow Baltimore to focus on prevention in the fight against AIDS

The Baltimore City Health Department will announce today it has received more than $20 million from the Centers for Disease Contol for a new HIV strategy that will target gay men and transgender people and push a drug that can prevent people from contracting the disease.

Twenty years ago, people specializing in hepatitis C never used the word "cure," and instead used the jargon "sustained virological response" (or SVR) only because we were not sure whether we were curing or suppressing the virus just as in HIV or hepatitis B. Today, almost like a miracle, the treatment of hepatitis C has changed, however. With one single daily pill for 8 or 12 weeks most people with hepatitis C will be cured. Despite these advances, successful management of hepatitis C remains a

The Harford County Health Department will be partnering with Global Alliance for Rabies Control and 4 Paws Spa and Training Center, Inc. to recognize the importance of World Rabies Day and by offering a very low cost rabies vaccination clinic.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a low-cost diagnostic tool, slightly larger than a coffee mug, that detects chlamydia within 30 minutes.

Maryland should implement mandatory influenza vaccination for children in licensed child care and preschool programs.

Canine Influenza or CIV is a highly contagious respiratory infection that knows no season and can occur any time of the year.

So far this season, 29 cases of West Nile have been reported, up from 6 last year

Paula Vogel's "The Baltimore Waltz," a funny, surreal, touching response to the toll of AIDS, gets a mostly effective revival from Rep Stage.

John Mackey comes to mind for a number of reasons this week, not the least of which is that football made its official return here in Carroll. After 10 seasons in the NFL, he was elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame and later he took over as the president of the players' union. where he fought for player free agency and improved pension benefits. But it was in his later years where Mackey fought his greatest opponent when he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, a disease he contracted

Seniors are most likely to develop life-threatening complications from the flu, but Johns Hopkins researchers say they may have found a way to boost the power of the seasonal influenza vaccine to better protect them.

Baltimore County child tests negative for measles after hospital visit

People who live along the coast may have more to fear from climate change than rising waters. A team of Maryland researchers has found evidence suggesting the odds of getting sick from a salmonella infection go up, especially for coastal residents, as shifting climate produces more extreme weather conditions.

Macular degeneration, which can cause vision trouble, is common in older people. But there are treatments for the disease, particularly if problems are caught early, said Dr. R. Ross Lakhanpal from MedStar Union Memorial Hospital Eye Center.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have taken to their computers to tackle one of the top killers in the nation's hospitals, a consequence of infection called sepsis.

A clinical trial through the University of Maryland Medical School and the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center gave those with blood plasma cancer longer remission times by re-engineering parts of the immune system

Because of all of the advances we've made with HIV, the disease has somewhat fallen off the general public's radar, creating, in our view, an extremely dangerous situation for those at greatest risk of contracting this virus. We believe the president's call to action last week will help reinvigorate enthusiasm for wiping out this disease.

143 animals have been diagnosed with rabies in Maryland in 2015

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, is similar to another deadly coronavirus identified a decade ago called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, giving scientists a jump on the investigation into their origins.

Doctors say more research is needed to treat people with rare cancer related to asbestos

When a new generation of hepatitis C drugs began coming on the market about a year and a half ago, some feared the millions who could be cured of the potentially deadly disease would never get them. The price for a three-month daily course began at $1,000 a pill.

A research partnership between U.S. and Liberian health officials has launched a study to learn more about the long-term health consequences of Ebola, including why it commonly causes vision damage and eye inflammation.

The rising rates of HIV among young people threaten to erase the gains Maryland has made over the last decade

As the rate of HIV cases among young people rises in Maryland, public health officials are scrambling for new ways to address the problem - or risk undermining years of success.

Agriculture officials and poultry farmers in Maryland are taking extra precautions against bird flu after outbreaks have devastated flocks in other states.

The following are comments from Gov. Larry Hogan's press conference Monday, in which he announced he has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Harford County health officials say a suspected rabid beaver bit a county resident on Friday afternoon in the Deer Creek Conservation Area off Sandy Hook Road in the Street area of Northern Harford.

Simple tests already used regularly to assess kidney function and damage could also help doctors predict who will suffer heart disease, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found.

Health officials are trying to track down people who may have been in contact with a woman with a rare and deadly form of hard-to-treat tuberculosis.

The Baltimore County Department of Health is warning the public about a rabid fox.

The Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground was one of several facilities to which an Army bio-defense organization mistakenly sent samples of live anthrax, officials said Thursday, and a private laboratory in Maryland was the first to report the problem to authorities.

Two fungal diseases - Rhabdocline (Rhabdocline pseudotsugae) and Swiss needlecast (Phaeocryptus gaumanni) - have created serious problems in the area's Douglas fir trees.

The aches and fatigue from Lyme disease can be debilitating, but for one in five infected the troubles don't end with a course of antibiotics. This "post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome" afflicting so many of the 300,000 or so believed to contract the disease annually is a focus of a new center at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are partnering to help expedite progress in the global fight against Ebola. ECBC is working with USAMRIID on two critical studies –a vaccine study and a biomarker study – that will advance the global fight against Ebola.