medical procedures

Witnesses told police in Concord, N.C., that Wright was shot after an argument with his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend Monday afternoon.

By Jonas Shaffer

Jul 2, 2019

Dr. Kenneth J. Murray, a retired neurosurgeon, died May 3 from respiratory failure at NIH. He was 73.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jun 4, 2019

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

Michael J. Smit, a nurse practitioner at Sinai Hospital, died April 1. He was 53.

By Sarah Meehan

Apr 7, 2019

Dr. G. Edward Reahl, who had been chief of orthopedic surgery at Mercy Medical Center for nearly three decades, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at his Guilford home. He was 87.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Apr 5, 2019

The $5 billion health system praises doctor who federal authorities say carried out unnecessary stent procedures

By Dan Rodricks

Mar 25, 2019

Melissa Missy Robertson selected at hospital SuperStar December

Glenelg senior linebacker Sam Alsheimer returned to the field this season after a series of leg surgeries to earn the 2018 Howard County Times Defensive Player of the Year award.

By Tim Schwartz

Dec 31, 2018

Carl Adkins and his 13-year-old daughter Makayla were shot Sunday in their car. Makayla has undergone multiple surgeries.

By Jessica Anderson

Dec 12, 2018

The medical journal The Lancet recently condemned unnecessary cesarean section surgery as a “global epidemic.” In the U.S., almost one in three births is by cesarean section — a dramatic change from a even a few decades ago. How did this major, risky abdominal surgery become mainstream so fast?

Care in a special heart surgery unit at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., became so troubled that last year one in 10 patients died and others suffered devastating complications before procedures were halted, a year-long investigation by the Tampa Bay Times found.

By Meredith Cohn

Nov 28, 2018

Amy Hayes, a 5-year-old shot in Baltimore — and who by a stunning and tragic coincidence is the younger sister of Taylor Hayes, a 7-year-old who was fatally shot in July — was in stable condition, undergoing surgery Tuesday, family members said.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 20, 2018

A 5-year-old girl injured in a shooting Monday evening in West Baltimore has emerged from surgery at a nearby hospital and is expected to survive, police said.

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.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 21, 2018

A Johns Hopkins panel of doctors, patients, nurses and other providers has created guidelines for the amount of opioids doctors should prescribe for specific surgeries.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Aug 14, 2018

After nearly 25 years leading the board that manages Harford County's two hospitals, Dr. Roger Schneider has stepped aside to concentrate on his "first love," medicine, and to make way for new blood in the leadership ranks.

By Allan Vought

Jul 13, 2018

There have been 8,509 transplants from January to March of this year nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Doctors in Baltimore and elsewhere have successfully transplanted organs and other body parts from deceased donors to living candidates.

Baltimore police officer Keith Mcneill was shot eight times by a stranger while off duty, and has withstood countless surgeries and rehab sessions in his goal of returning to the force.

By Meredith Cohn

Apr 5, 2018

A few years ago, Ravens defensive tackle Brandon Williams learned he has a degenerative eye condition called keratoconus. He worried it might be career-shortening, but he's optimistic after undergoing a new procedure called cross-linking to strengthen his corneas.

By Childs Walker

Mar 14, 2018

The number of transgender people getting gender reassignment surgery has increased as more insurers cover the procedures, according to new research by Johns Hopkins Medicine.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Feb 28, 2018

A comparison of health costs across five states by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement found that Maryland costs in Maryland were on average 16 percent lower.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Feb 23, 2018

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanic women and the medical community is using outreach to try and lower the disparity.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Feb 8, 2018

Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier was released from the hospital Thursday, nearly two months after suffering a spinal injury in a victory over Cincinnati.

A machine developed at the University of Maryland offers early stage breast cancer patients more precise radiation, reducing the need for surgery.

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 8, 2018

Baltimore Rep. Elijah E. Cummings was hospitalized Friday for what his office described as a bacterial infection in his knee.

By John Fritze

Jan 5, 2018

Harpoon Medical, a Baltimore-based medical device company, has been acquired by Edwards Lifesciences Corp. for $100 million.

By Sarah Gantz

Dec 6, 2017

A 26-year-old man checked himself into a hospital with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was immediately taken into surgery, police said. Also a 52-year-old man checked himself into a hospital with a gunshot wound to his thigh.

By Tim Prudente

Nov 13, 2017

Dr. Sarah Lentz served in the Air Force as a surgeon was a general surgeon for four years and was deployed to Iraq. She now works at Carroll Hospital as a surgeon.

Man dies of stab wounds inside Johns Hopkins Hospital

By Luke Broadwater

Oct 13, 2017

PHILADELPHIA When Laura Tuzio Ross told her plastic surgeon that she preferred not to reconstruct her breast after cancer surgery, he warned her she would

Hidden Scar surgery helps women move on from breast cancer by limiting physical marks.

By Meredith Cohn

Oct 10, 2017

Welington Castillo suffered no damage after his second testicular injury since May.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Sep 12, 2017

Carroll Hospital launches pre-operative education class on Monday, Sept. 18

MedStar Health Cancer Network offers less instrusive lumpectomy

By Jessica Anderson

Aug 18, 2017

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

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Aug 7, 2017

Three people were shot — one of them critically injured — in Baltimore overnight, police said.

By Colin Campbell

Jul 17, 2017

Johns Hopkins Medicine surgeons have developed a minimally invasive surgery to address chronic pancreatitis, a painful condition that can be remedied by removing the pancreas.

By Carrie Wells

Jul 16, 2017

Gov. Larry Hogan's office does not plan to file an ethics complaint against the president of the Senate, who they accused of pressing the administration to interfere in a decision to approve open-heart surgery at a hospital in Annapolis.

By Pamela Wood

Jul 14, 2017

Surgeon B. Martin Middleton dies

By Jacques Kelly

Jun 22, 2017

Hospital staff members receive awards Escobar Steadman Aukerman

Baltimore Rep. Elijah E. Cummings underwent heart surgery and is expected to remain in the hospital for several days, an aide said Thursday.

By John Fritze

May 25, 2017

Baltimore Rep. Elijah E. Cummings underwent heart surgery on Wednesday and is expected to remain in the hospital for several days, his office said on Thursday.

By John Fritze

May 25, 2017

Americans have increasingly turned to surgery to help them lose weight. Nearly 200,000 people get bariatric surgery each year. The procedures have improved and evolved over the years.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

May 17, 2017

MOUNT AIRY

After four surgeries, physical therapy sessions three times a week, and multiple pairs of the light-up shoes, 3-year-old Kendall Brockenbrough continues to struggle to walk since she was shot in the left leg last September in East Baltimore.

By Jessica Anderson

Mar 27, 2017

A month later, Atkins was in Baltimore for an operation. The procedure a Johns Hopkins doctor performed was so new he's since submitted a paper on it to a medical journal for peer review and publication later this year and has given presentations on it to doctors from around the world.

By Carrie Wells

Mar 24, 2017

Stephan Hochuli named physician of month

Surgeon Skip DeMarco dies

By Jacques Kelly

Mar 5, 2017

Hospital administrators want to see more cases worked out in the same manner and are trying to push legislation that they say would make it easier for doctors to admit when a procedure or surgery goes wrong without having to testify about it in court later. They argue it would put more compensation in the hands of patients, rather than lawyers, and enable them to come up with a treatment plan for the patient more quickly.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Feb 26, 2017

As doctors face pressure to prescribe fewer opioids and other narcotics that can lead to addiction in some patients they are pushing for alternative ways to treat pain.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Feb 18, 2017