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.

For police officers and doctors alike, telling family members a loved one died is part of the job.

Candace Wilson and Abdel Sawan receive Carroll hospital honors

Carroll Hospital presents DAISY Awards Petersen Frame nurse

Several other countries have been far more successful than the U.S. in controlling health care spending while preserving private insurance. Here's how.

Taking medications is not always pleasant and generally involves side effects, again kind of like throwing darts.

A nurse and team leader in the Carroll Hospital cardiovascular lab, Ashley Keating is known among her colleagues for having a calm demeanor in emergencies.

This mobile dental clinic was made possible thanks to a multi-year, fundraising campaign that earned support from major foundations, churches and individual

On Maryland's Eastern Shore, a local hospital is downsized — and residents are outraged at UMMS.

Physicians, politicians and the public must join together to push back against big business and advocate for what many know as “Medicare for All” or “single payer,” but I prefer to call “Health Care for All.”

Polypharmacy is a term referring to a person taking five or more medications at once, a state most common, though not exclusive to older adults, according to Dr. Nicole Cimino-Fiallos, director of the Geriatric Acute Care Suite in the Carroll Hospital emergency department.

While she received hundreds of thousands of dollars though a no-bid book deal with the University of Maryland Medical System, then state senator Catherine Pugh sponsored dozens of bills affecting hospitals in Maryland — including several that would have benefited UMMS.

Howard County is partnering with Howard County General Hospital on a program to bring more primary care physicians to the community.

The University of Maryland Medical System let us down with its inside wheeling and dealing with board members.

MedStar Health has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve allegations the hospital system paid kickbacks to a cardiology group in Pikesville in exchange for referrals, according to a statement from Robert Hur, the U.S. attorney for Maryland and other federal investigators. 

As a medical oncologist with a full-time practice, I deal with treatment delays and other consequences of prior authorization every day. And physicians across the nation believe the problem is getting worse.

"Lives just come to a halt. Parents can’t function, a class can’t function, siblings can’t function,” said Dr. Susan Schulman, a pediatrician who specializes in PANDAS.

Hospital honors physicians for care Carroll

Paramedics, nurses and doctors from across Baltimore are partnering to bring treatment to patients in West Baltimore in a pilot program city officials hope will reduce strains on the city’s fire department and emergency rooms.

There are many relevant arguments against the Trump administration’s military transgender ban, and we thought it important that our group weigh in on some of them. For the past 48 years, the Sex and Gender Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital has provided affirming care to transgender individuals.

Sandra Ruby named physician of month at hospital westminster

Town hall event during unionization campaign presents surveys of nurses indicating fears for personal safety and shortages of supplies.

Dr. Robert Mahon was chief doctor at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.

Hospital recognizes employees during dinner year awards service

Access Carroll Integrated Health Care provides medical services to those that need them most, regardless of their financial status. From addiction treatment to dental care, the organization improves patients health from teeth to toes. But they need the public's generosity to do it.

Christopher Lemon Carroll Hospital physician month September

Health care has become our No. 1 national priority. Being Americans, we also want to eat fast food, work two or more jobs with less sleep, park next to our favorite shop if we actually buy stuff at a store, buy most things online, and have our marvelous doctors and researchers perform miracles for

Conventional wisdom says Americans vote their pocketbooks. That’s why health care offers Democrats an advantage in the midterms, despite the strong economy and the shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act.

Bryan Hambley and Kiran Kuna named physicians of month

Some women are turning to lymph node transfer surgery to treat arm swelling and pain after surviving breast cancer.

University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health, owner and operator of Harford County’s two hospitals and other medical facilities serving Harford and Cecil counties, announced the election of several leadership positions on its board of directors and medical team.

Palliative care can offer an “extra layer” of treatment to help patients have a better quality of life when living with a serious or terminal illness.

My son was unable to get the inpatient treatment needed to stabilize his recovery, so he and I sought a doctor to prescribe Suboxone. We failed, and days later he resorted to street drugs, dying of mixed drug with fentanyl. He never would have encountered fentanyl if he had proper treatment access.

The corporatization and over-involvement of government in health care is driving doctors from the profession, Cal Thomas writes.

Dr. Timothy Chizmar, of Harford County, has been hired as the assistant state EMS medical director for the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems. He is also a physician at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, medical director for Harford County EMS and a Bel Air fire company member.

David Fox, M.D., radiology, and Ikenna Ezumba, M.D., adult hospitalist, were recognized as Carroll Hospital's May and June Physicians of the Month,

State-sponsored health insurance for all Marylanders such as the single-payer plan proposed by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous could cost $24 billion a year, forcing lawmakers to significantly raise taxes, according to a nonpartisan analysis.

The Trump's administration's reproductive health plan would only treat patients who have health insurance from their employers or are wealthy enough to pay out-of-pocket. And it would require clinicians to knowingly withhold evidence-based treatment.

Carroll Hospital has announced its Physician, and for the first time, Advanced Practice Provider of the Year for 2018: Dr. Mark Goldstein, the interim chief of emergency medicine, and Kim Baker, a physician assistant and director of adult hospitalists and ICU services.

Should Baltimore and Baltimore County merge, the cost to physicians would be extraordinary.

Buckley named top physician for February

Some nurses at the Johns Hopkins Hospital are attempting to form a union, saying that they are overworked, union officials said Monday.

Maryland’s ambitious hospital payment overhaul has begun to demonstrate savings of hundreds of millions of dollars as well as culture change, new report finds.

Carroll Hospital Senior Vice President of Operations Dwayne Richardson’s role will be overseeing all of the hospital’s service lines — that is, each of the departments such as cardiology, oncology and emergency.

America is well aware of its opioid epidemic, but there's a hidden crisis brewing with prescription sedatives such as Xanax and Valium, a new review warns.

Dr. John E. Steers packed a great deal into one lifetime. He was an all American American athlete, a chemical engineer and a father. He was a soldier in the U.S. Army reserve, a manager with Bethlehem Steel and a widely respected surgeon.

A report by a commission looking at rural health care needs found a shortage of doctors, among other disparities.

Hospital names Dec. and Jan. physicians of month