diseases and illnesses

Carroll Hospital Center and other providers are prepared for enterovirus, but the best defense is still to wash your hands

Child in suburban Maryland tests positive for respiratory illness crossing the country

Local health officials on the lookout for unusual strain of enterovirus already confirmed in neighboring states

Hand washing and basic hygiene is enough to ward off enterovirus

As health officials fail to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak, hospitals in Baltimore and across the U.S. are readying space and equipment for what some consider an inevitability – the arrival of the deadly virus here.

Two people who stayed at an Econo Lodge in northern Ocean City this summer have tested positive for Legionnaires' disease and low levels of Legionella bacteria were found in the hotel's water pipes, Worcester County health officials said.

Brigance spoke with The Baltimore Sun about several topics, including his fight with ALS, the Ravens' outlook this season after splitting their first two games and former Ravens running back Ray Rice, whose $35 million contract was terminated Monday with the NFL indefinitely suspending him after a graphic video surfaced of his domestic violence incident.

The HPV vaccine could save thousands of lives each year. So why aren't parents vaccinating their children?

Pumping antibiotics into healthy chickens is bad food policy and Perdue deserves credit for ending the practice

One person was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease in mid-July at the Hanover Square apartments in Otterbein, according to a spokesman for the city's Health Department.

Tracy Quisenberry is founder and executive director of Icing Smiles, a Howard County-based nonprofit whose purpose is to bring a free customized cake ¿ and a special experience of joy ¿ to kids suffering from life-threatening conditions.

The National Institutes of Health has announced the first clinical trial of a vaccine to protect healthy people from infection by the Ebola virus, which is responsible for an estimated 1,550 deaths throughout West Africa.

Unfortunately — and often all too tragically— a growing percentage of students enter or return to school without the most important back to school requirement: vaccinations. These students are part of a new generation vulnerable to childhood diseases that have long since been under control but are now making a comeback due to parental misinformation and bad science.

As the Ebola virus was ravaging West Africa, two American health workers who contracted the disease in Liberia were airlifted back to the United States to be treated with an experimental drug. They are now in Atlanta, recovering.

What happens when you suffer from Lyme disease symptoms but can't get a doctor's diagnosis?

While the roles of depression and addiction in Robin William's suicide were the focus of most news stories about his death, perhaps the headlines should have focused on his recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, highlighting the intricate relationships between neurological diseases and mental health conditions. The U.S. health care system is woefully inadequate at addressing the overlap between the body, mind and soul in these patients.

Many local high school coaches and athletes have participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which has raised $41.8 million in less than a month, according to the ALS Association.

We sat in a waiting room of a health clinic here, talking about our fears. As a midwifery and nursing educator working in Liberia for Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, I had been asked to help update health workers on the critical skills essential to managing Ebola cases. But before I could do that, I knew we had to talk about how terrifying the job is.

Unless you live in a cave, just about everyone has heard of the ALS ice-bucket challenge. Facebook and other Internet sites are covered with videos of people, including hundreds from Harford County, dumping buckets of ice-cold water over themselves

If the development plan receives zoning approval on Monday, Aug. 25, four buildings that serve as residences on the campus of the Charlestown Retirement Community will be razed and replaced with two updated buildings along with a parking lot expansion.

Carroll has resources for those experiencing a mental health crisis, but many need help getting help

A professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins who was an authority on lipid disorders and advocate for routine cholesterol screening in children died Friday of prostate cancer at the age of 74, Hopkins officials said.

The test, called whole exome sequencing, stems from the decades-long push to map all the genes in the human body and translate it into diagnostic tools and therapies

Sharon Hrynkow and the Baltimore-based Global Virus Network aim to address challenges in treatment and prepare for pandemics of Ebola, influenza, chikungunya and other viruses.

Local researchers get in on the Bucket Challenge to raise money, awareness for ALS

Physicians, public health officials and mental health advocates hope the death of Robin Williams will bring new attention to suicide, the little-discussed and less-understood phenomenon that now ranks among the top 10 causes of death in the United States.

After a long hiatus, researchers are again studying psychedelic substances like LSD to see if they fill a medical need

African leaders gathered in Washington this week must focus on containing the Ebola outbreak threatening their continent

A recap of the Aug. 3 episode of "True Blood," as Hoyt's back and Niall shows Sookie some things about Bill's past

Public health officials have but one tactic to battle the unrelenting Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa – quarantine – but as the disease nonetheless continues to spread, scientists in Maryland are among those close to discovering other weapons.

Researchers to use funds to find better treatment, prevention for gonorrhea, chlamydia

While out enjoying the warm weather, hiking and working in the yard, make sure to be taking the proper precautions to avoid one of this season's well-known creatures from latching on.

The Bartlinski family of Catonsville is working to create a center for orphans in China. They began their work after the death of their daughter Teresa, who was adopted from an orphanage in Beijing.

Marylanders are urged to be wary of mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile Virus, and now, chikungunya after that virus was reported in a Florida man, according to the CDC.

About one in 5,000 people have Marfan Syndrome, a rare progressive disease that affects many different organs and tissues. Common signs include heart and vision problems, curvature of the spine and the long arms, legs and fingers that in retrospect mark Baylor University basketball start Isaiah Austin as one of the affected.

Tomato plants are like canaries in the coal mine when it comes to herbicide injury. They are super sensitive to the chemical 2,4-D and its family of growth-regulating herbicides, including clopyralid.