The family of Zubida Byrom was awarded a record $229.6 million, which could help the brain-damaged child, but isn't likely to mean any more changes.

A Baltimore jury has awarded $229 million to a mother in what her attorneys say is the largest medical malpractice verdict ever in the U.S.

The city of Baltimore and 10 hospitals are partnering to provide housing and services for 200 homeless people and families.

A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot along Hanover Street and crashing his car in the MedStar Harbor Hospital emergency room lot

Dr. Thomas E. Wheeler, a retired general practitioner and World War II Navy veteran, died Friday from heart failure at Frederick Memorial Hospital. He was 99.

MedStar Harbor Hospital launched a violence interruption program, hiring two responders for its emergency department.

Dr. Rolando V. "Doc" Goco, a retired internist who maintained practices in South and Northeast Baltimore who earlier had survived the occupation of the Philippines, died April 28 of dementia at his Ticker, Ga., home. The former Laurel resident was 91.

Derek Hoey, 31, and Kara Bach, 25, were arrested and charged with the first- and second-degree murder of Jorge Perez in the 5700 block of Pennington Ave. around 1:30 a.m. May 4, police said.

As state lawmakers contemplate reforming how the University of Maryland Medical System handles contracts with insiders, a Baltimore Sun review of other hospitals' disclosures show the practice is not rare. Only Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation dabbled in politics.

Police say an empty car went into the Patapsco River near the 3000 block of S. Hanover Street.

Baltimore leaders ranked the city’s 11 hospitals this week for best practices in responding to the opioid crisis.

Maryland hospitals were safer for patients this fall than they were six months ago, according to the latest assessment from the Leapfrog Group.

Philippine immigrant served communities in Southwest Baltimore and Brooklyn and assisted his large family

Dr. Neil Novin, former chief of surgery at Harbor Hospital, died Sept. 16 from renal failure at Gilchrist Center in Towson. The longtime Pikesville resident was 88.

A police officer with the state health department died while overseeing a patient who was transported to MedStar Harbor Hospital.

James A. Oakey, former president of Good Samaritan Hospital who merged it into the Helix Health System, died June 13 from complications of brain surgery at Gilchrist Hospice in Columbia. The Marriottsvillle resident was 83.

A mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Maryland, he was a soccer and tennis player

Hospital emergency rooms in Maryland are being overwhelmed by a big jump in patients with mental health and substance-use issues.

After Florida massacre, an anesthesiologist at Medstar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore joins an effort to take weapons of war out of civilian hands and homes.

As traffic whirred by on the I-95 overpass above, a group of birdwatchers peered through their binoculars. They looked out onto the water from Swann Park in South Baltimore on Saturday morning, pointing as they spotted buffleheads, several types of gulls, and a great blue heron in the distance. 

Dr. Stuart Levine took over as president and chief medical officer at MedStar Harbor Hospital several months ago, though he didn't start out looking to lead a community hospital.

Physician Thomas Hunt dies

A Baltimore Police officer was shot in the hand in Cherry Hill Wednesday evening.

Maryland hospitals didn't rank well in a national assessment of safety at health care facilities, though the hospitals say the comparisons are not apples to apples and others charge that such studies can confuse the public.

A new website, wearthecost.org, will help Maryland patients compare costs of knee replacements, hysterectomies and other procedures and bring more transparency to hospital pricing practices.

MedStar Health names Dr. Stuart M. Levine as president of Harbor Hospital

Mary P. "Patsy" Herman, a longtime nurse whose career spanned more than 50 years, died Aug. 10 from uterine cancer at her Lake Walker home, She was 81.

Dr. Hilbert M. "Bert" Levine, a noted Baltimore surgeon who practiced at Mecy Medical Center, died Aug. 7 from multiple organ failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. he was 88.n. He was

MedStar Health is opening a one-stop-shop orthopaedics center in Timonium

Catherine Pugh: What we are doing in our city as it relates to drug treatment is clearly not working.

A 29-year-man said he was shot at Hanover Street and Fort Avenue in South Baltimore Saturday by two men "who jumped out a vehicle" and shot him.

Baltimore police said there was a police-involved shooting Tuesday night in Curtis Bay.

Multiple people were wounded in several shootings across Baltimore on Thursday, including three people in South Baltimore, which has been bearing the brunt of city violence this year.

A bus carrying the Georgetown men's basketball team was involved in a crash on Interstate 95 in Howard County on Monday, Maryland State Police said.

Two men were injured in a shooting in South Baltimore Thursday night, city police said.

William A. Hoffman Jr., retired vice president of human resources at MedStar Harbor Hospital and an avid bay sailor, died Monday from heart failure at Future Care of the Chesapeake in Arnold. He was 88.

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The Maryland Transit Administration routinely tweaks its bus schedules and routes, but the Aug. 28 changes in service came without warning and cut the number of bus runs per week on 22 routes by an average of 11 percent, according to the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance.

Four people were injured in shootings since Monday night, Baltimore police said Tuesday morning.

Dr. Sung Eui Kim, an Anne Arundel County obstetrician and gynecologist, died Monday of complications following surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 71.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against MedStar Harbor Hospital accusing the Baltimore facility of firing a respiratory therapist rather than allowing him a "work-around" needed because of a compromised immune system.

Sewage backs up into Baltimore homes more than a dozen times a day, on average. Repairs to fix the sewage system are expected to extend another decade.

Homicide detectives are investigating the scalding death of a 1-month-old girl in South Baltimore on Wednesday after her parents said she was accidentally scalded in the bathtub, Baltimore police said Thursday.

A 21-year-old man who was shot in the left foot arrived Monday evening at MedStar Harbor Hospital, police said.

Since then, Dyer has teamed with Cristin Connerney and Emma Bentov-Lagman, and in the two years they have worked together, the trio has enjoyed considerable success in acrobatic gymnastics. In only their third competition as a team last May, they captured the silver medal in the Women's Group (age 13-19) at the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) ACRO World Cup in Geneva, Switzerland. They won their group again at the USA Gymnastics Championships in Greensboro, N.C., in June and are

Drs. Galvin and Chacko join Carroll Health Group Primary Care

Two people walked into the same South Baltimore hospital with gunshot wounds in the span of about 20 minutes Sunday afternoon, police said.