health

• Health

The difference between sudden cardiac arrest and heart attacks

Dr. Gordon Tomaselli from Johns Hopkins Hospital talks about sudden cardiac arrest

• Harford

Senior care 'boarding house' proposed for vacant Bel Air-area dwelling

An unused house in the 800 block of Red Pump Road, north of Bel Air, will be converted into personal care boarding home to serve up to 10 senior citizen residents, according to a site plan presented to the Harford County Development Advisory Committee Wednesday.

By David Anderson

Sep 8, 2016

• Maryland

Carroll bites back: Protecting yourself from bloodsucking mosquitoes

Steve Allgeier is a vampire hunter, although his prey and the tools of his trade are a bit different than the prototypical fictional slayer.

• Maryland

Behind the Scenes: Crystal Hutchins is the sinew binding the Health Department together

What Crystal Hutchins does for a living, though her official title and mild manner may belie it, is rescue people from bad days.

"If they have locked t

• Opinion

Redefining public health

Redefining public health

• Health

Maryland Medicaid patients to participate in diabetes prevention programs

The state health department has chosen four companies to help Medicaid patients at risk for diabetes adopt lifestyle changes.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Aug 31, 2016

• Health

Baltimore schools vying for federal funding to boost mental health resources

The Baltimore school system has applied for a federal grant that would funnel up to $2.3 million for mental health resources to 13 schools in West Baltimore.

• Health

Maryland health chief says it was mistake not to seek more money for mental health beds

Maryland's top health official told a Baltimore judge Tuesday that he erred in not seeking more money in this year's state budget to relieve a bed shortage that has prompted his department to turn away patients from his department's mental hospitals.

By Michael Dresser

Aug 2, 2016

• Maryland

Walk Carroll goes to the dogs: Health initiative expanding to include more children, families and pets

Caitlin Cross's 7-month old dog Boopy whined and wagged her tail. The Border collie Australian cattle dog mix seemed anxious to meet with other dogs who were arriving with their owners to the Morgan Run Natural Environmental Area on Saturday, July 9. They were there to participate in a dog walk event sponsored by Walk Carroll, an initiative of the Partnership for a Healthier Carroll County.

• Health

Gunshot victims a larger share of emergency room cases in Baltimore

While the overall number of people going to the emergency room in Baltimore hospitals is down slightly from last year along with hospital admissions in general, the number of gun-related injuries has grown

By Meredith Cohn

Dec 29, 2015

• Entertainment

July 5: Leo will test boundaries

• Entertainment

June 27: Open up, Leo

• Maryland

A child, a cause: the legacy of the Columbia Mall shootings

Brianna Benlolo left behind a child, Tyler Johnson, a cause. Families of the co-workers killed by Damon Marcus Aguilar, who then killed himself, remember the Jan. 25, 2014, Mall in Columbia shootings.

By Jean Marbella

Jan 24, 2015

• Maryland

Smoke Out: Hospital helps Carroll quit

Hospital celebrates the American Cancer Society's Great American Smoke Out by helping Carroll quit

• Maryland

Last chance Children's flu clinic

The Health Department will host its last free, walk in flu shot clinic on Wednesday

• Maryland

Overdose deaths still on the rise

State and local efforts are under way, but word still out on effectiveness

• Maryland

Solving some of our children's problems

• Health

Report: State board overlooked doctor's rape conviction

An inspector general report released Wednesday found the Maryland Board of Physicians did not investigate Dr. William Dando even though they received information about his 1987 rape conviction.

By Scott Dance

Nov 12, 2014

• Opinion

Veterans courts needed

Many veterans find themselves unnecessarily lost in the criminal justice system, plagued by demons that they have collected along the way in serving. It does not have to be this way. A simple solution is already in place in many other states. Veteran Treatment Courts have been around for years and are effectively addressing the complex and unique challenges and issues that veterans face.

• Health

Md. board backs continual monitoring of charges against doctors

Maryland doctors would be fingerprinted and continuously monitored for criminal charges under draft legislation the state Board of Physicians plans to propose next year.

By Scott Dance

Nov 6, 2014

• Maryland

A timeline of Carroll Hospital Center

• Maryland

Man placed on probation for threatening deputies

A Westminster man who threatened Carroll County Sheriff's deputies with a knife received probation before judgment Wednesday and was ordered to continue mental health treatment.

• Health

Md. to stop providing updates on Ebola investigations, unless cases confirmed

State health officials are monitoring about 100 people who have traveled from Ebola-stricken countries but won't disclose any more information about their condition unless someone tests positive for the deadly virus under a new policy.

By Scott Dance

Nov 5, 2014

• Baltimore County

CCBC Catonsville to host event for homeless female veterans

An event to help homeless female veterans transition from military to civilian life will be hosted by the Community College of Baltimore County Catonsville campus on Friday, Nov. 14, following Veteran's Day.

• Health

New local research partnership will develop mental illness therapies

There aren't a lot of effective treatments for those suffering brain injuries in car crashes, athletics and battle, but a unique collaboration between those who study mental illness and those who treat the disorders may mean a new drug to soothe aggression and aid memory.

By Meredith Cohn

Oct 29, 2014

• Health

Potential Ebola patient transferred to Baltimore hospital tests negative for virus

Possible ebola patient currently in isolation at University of Maryland Medical Center

• Nutrition Research

Medifast announces partnership with Fitbit

Weight loss company Medifast Inc. is jumping into the fast-growing health technology market through a partnership with fitness tracker Fitbit, the Owings Mills-based company announced Tuesday.

• Maryland

Rabid raccoon raises concerns about cats in Finksburg

Those living in or near the Todd Village Trailer Park are urged to keep clear of unknown felines, which might be carrying the deadly rabies virus

• Maryland

Heroin speaks but community speaks louder

Heroin and prescription drugs the focus of the annual substance abuse awareness program

• Health

Mocha Moms of Howard County a support group for stay-at-home mothers

Howard County support groups

• Harford

E-cigarettes could still be dangerous, Harford health officials warn

Harford County health officials warned residents that electronic cigarettes are just as bad as the real thing.

• Howard County

Judge rules Morgan Arnold can plead insanity in father's death

Attorneys for a Howard County teenager accused in her father's killing want a judge to reconsider her plea that she was not criminally responsible for her actions because of her mental state.

By Alison Knezevich

Oct 22, 2014

• Opinion

Regulate Baltimore's e-cigarettes

We now have the potential to stop a new generation of smokers by regulating the use of vaping indoors, enforcing the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and mandating that they be placed behind the counter in retail establishments. It is time that Baltimore joins nearly 200 other cities and counties, as well as three states, that have enacted prohibitions against using e-cigarettes indoors.

• Maryland

Health Department: Keeping food safe during an emergency

• Health

Ebola vaccine trials to begin in Baltimore next month

As public health officials seek to get an Ebola vaccine to Africa as soon as possible, human trials are being conducted in Baltimore, Silver Spring and Mali by University of Maryland scientists and other researchers.

By Scott Dance

Oct 18, 2014

• Health

Shuttered health clinics plan relaunch

A new company has taken over the shuttered People's Community Health Centers, which went out of business this summer under mounting financial pressures, yet former employees want to be paid back wages.

By Pamela Wood

Oct 18, 2014

• Obituaries

William A. Reinke, international health expert

Dr. William A. Reinke, a statistician who helped develop the department of international health at what is now the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he was professor for 50 years, died Oct. 4 at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville of lymphoma. He was 86.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 17, 2014

• Maryland

Carroll officials prepared for Ebola despite low risk

The Hospital and Health Department are prepared for Ebola, however unlikely it might be

• Maryland

Blumberg joins Carroll Health Group

Carroll Hospital Center announced the addition of Dr. David Blumberg, its first colon and rectal surgeon, to Carroll Health Group, the hospital's affiliated multi-specialty practice group.

• Opinion

No 'best practices' could guarantee Maryland's safety if fracking is allowed [Letter]

Heather Mizeur and other members of the fracking commission say no "best practices" will make us safe.

• Harford

Harford hospital officials say they are 'prepared' to handle Ebola

Officials from Harford County's hospital system said they are prepared to deal with any possibility of the Ebola virus occurring in the county, but they declined to say specifically what that protocol would look like.

• Maryland

North Carroll Senior Center to offer flu shot clinic

Beat the flu season with an influenza vaccination on Tuesday, Oct. 21

• Howard County

Howard executive candidates share goals, differ on execution

Howard County executive candidates Courtney Watson and Allan Kittleman agreed Tuesday night that this year's election is critically important to the county's future. Where they differed was over whose vision would best serve Howard residents.

• Baltimore City Paper

Huffing and Puffing

• Maryland

Nutrition and exercise key to preventing, dealing with and recovering from cancer

• Maryland

Breast cancer awareness educator moves throughout the county to share information

• Maryland

The flu season is here [Editorial]

• Readers Respond

Condom use is a public health issue, not sexual harassment [Letter]

Condom use is a public health issue, not sexual harassment

• Features

In Baltimore, ballroom culture is transforming the fight against HIV

It's about pomp but also power -- not only to become a YouTube sensation or niche-culture legend, but to provide a family to those without one and to drive HIV awareness in a youth demographic identified by city health workers as being particularly vulnerable to infection. This is the vogue ball scene in Baltimore, 2014.

• Opinion

Ban fracking, O'Malley [Commentary]

The medical and scientific community was relieved when Gov. Martin O'Malley imposed a moratorium on fracking in 2011. He said that the state would only move forward with fracking if it "can be accomplished without unacceptable risks of adverse impacts to public health, safety, the environment and natural resources." And now that the public health study he commissioned returned results showing fracking falls far short of this admirable standard, he needs to stick to his word, listen to the