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Maryland men's basketball coaches, players and athletic department support staff visited patients Tuesday at MedStar Harbor Hospital.

The U.S Department of Justice said Friday that it has reached a $250 million settlement with 457 hospitals – including 10 in Maryland – related to cardiac devices that were implanted in violation of Medicare rules.

A 41-year-old man was injured in a shooting in south Baltimore Wednesday night, city police said.

A 29-year-old man was killed and several others were injured in shootings in Baltimore overnight.

Baltimore officials plan to authorize $280,000 in payments to settle three different lawsuits alleging police misconduct.

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No hospital in Maryland earned a top score under a new, simplified ranking system from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that adds to the collection of sometimes conflicting assessments of the nation's health care facilities.

After a cold winter, local professionals and medical experts say golfers could be more at risk to injury once courses clear up.

When we as the region's doctors speak to the public about vaccines, it's about more than individual health. It's about the health of our community. It's about our mutual obligation to one other. It's about the value of vaccines to safeguard the future of Baltimore.

A task force set up by the General Assembly earlier this year has recommended that the state create a fund to help care for babies with suffering neurological injuries during birth, according to a report sent to lawmakers. The idea isn't popular with malpractice lawyers or patient advocates.

About 20 people were forced out of their Glen Burnie apartment complex Tuesday night after a neighbor used a mix of chemicals to die by suicide.

Thirteen people were hospitalized Tuesday morning in a four-vehicle wreck on Route 1 in Jessup, according to a news release from the department of Fire and Rescue Services.

A modern approach to total knee replacement relies on 3D printing technology to cast an implant and manufacture jigs used to guide the surgeon's incisions.

Johns Hopkins Hospital still considered among best hospitals in many specialties

Dr. James Ellicott Tyson Hopkins, a retired thoracic surgeon and decorated World War II veteran who drew from his battlefield experience to advocate for the use of body armor, died Monday of heart failure at his home near Bel Air. He was 99.

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A homeless woman whose wooded campsite in Glen Burnie was swallowed by flash flooding amid heavy downpours on Tuesday morning was rescued after being swept some 3,000 feet down a creek — including through a culvert beneath Ritchie Highway.

More than a foot of snow accumulated across the region in a storm that could be among the city's 10 biggest single-day snowfalls, with flakes expected into the night Thursday.

Maryland lawmakers, prompted by recent multimillion-dollar medical malpractice judgments, are pushing legislation to create a fund to help pay the costs to treat babies injured during birth.

Four gunman wearing masks robbed several employees of a popular Federal Hill sports bar early Sunday, Baltimore police said.

The Baltimore region's likely first baby of the year is a girl born seven minutes after midnight Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

MedStar Health has laid off 74 people in its real estate and facilities management departments as the hospital system transfers those functions to a contractor, which plans to hire back the workers, Medstar officials said.

MedStar Health has shed about 1 percent of its work force at its four Baltimore-area hospitals over the past year, less than the 300 layoffs of at MedStar Washington Hospital Center this week.

Mercy Medical Center is parting ways with a midwife group that has worked out of the hospital for years because of rising malpractice insurance costs. The decision to close Kathleen Slone CNM & Associates, which plans to stop delivering babies in February, left some to say that women will have fewer obstetrics choices outside of the traditional doctor.

Maryland's 32 birthing hospitals have all agreed to adopt new state breast-feeding policies and become certified as "baby-friendly."

Water service began returning Tuesday to thousands of residents and businesses in the Canton area of Southeast Baltimore after a water main break disrupted that service Monday night, according to the Department of Public Works.

After months watching the uprising in Syria, spreading support through social media and raising money for the suffering, Dr. Hassan Masri thought he understood the devastation that has sundered his parents' homeland.

A 41-year-old Fort Washington woman was killed and her two children injured after her vehicle crossed the median into oncoming traffic Friday afternoon on Route 295 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland State Police said.

MedStar Harbor Hospital is home to a new Mallard family

Seven people were shot — at least one fatally — in Baltimore between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday morning, with the violence stretching from Brooklyn in the south to Gwynn Oak in the northwest and Darley Park in the east.

Robert Keller, who was The Evening Sun's first metropolitan editor and later served as executive director of the Greater Baltimore Committee, died Sunday from complications of Crohn's disease at Harbor Hospital. He was 71.

Police are investigating an overnight shooting that left one man wounded, while detectives continue to search for suspects in the separate beating of a man Thursday evening that left him in critical condition.