health

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

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

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

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

Redefining public health

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Howard County support groups

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Condom use is a public health issue, not sexual harassment

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.

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