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Large health care providers and teaching hospitals face greater risk of having their medical records stolen by hackers, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Former Ravens tight end Todd Heap was moving a truck that ran over and killed his 3-year-daughter in the driveway of their suburban Phoenix home, authorities say.

Courtney Geanetta and Steve Van Shura met July 2013. They were both working at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

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.

This legislative session, Maryland state Sen. Cheryl Kagan and Del. Brooke Lierman are introducing a ban on polystyrene foam foodservice products, including the trademarked Styrofoam versions, and loose fill packaging (SB186 and HB229, respectively). These containers have significant impact on the health of humans and marine life in Maryland, as well as its scenic landscapes and waterways.

New Arena Football League team gets name and faces challenges in marketing

Jason Miller, who previously worked as deputy assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, begins his tenure as CEO of the newly formed business group April 1.

Howard Hughes Corp. downtown Columbia's master developer, announced the $38.8 million acquisition of two office buildings in the up-and-coming downtown Wednesday morning.

Clare Jean Siegel, 61, an early childhood educator active in Head Start for 32 years, died of cancer Dec. 14 at her Dickeyville home.

A group of 17 CEOs from enterprises stretching from Baltimore to Richmond are creating the Greater Washington Partnership to promote the region's strengths and work toward shared interests in infrastructure, jobs and economic development.

Just 1 percent of the 16,000 doctors who treat patients in Maryland have signed up to for the state's medical marijuana program, and two of the largest hospital systems in the state have banned their physicians from participating.

Should LifeBridge Health and MedStar Health reverse a ban prohibiting their doctors from participating in the state's medical marijuana program?

Up To Date Laundry, a Baltimore-based company that cleans bed sheets, doctors' scrubs and other linens for many of the area's major health care systems, plans to open a multimillion-dollar, 79,600-square-foot facility in the Hollander Business Park next summer.

Linda Odum, a resident of Wilde Lake and a Realtor since 1976, writes that with Columbia's 50th birthday less than a year away, it is fitting that the Downtown Columbia Plan for the city's "revitalization" is gaining momentum.

Some 6,000 Baltimore youth started work Monday as part of the city's YouthWorks summer program.

Target stores in Maryland now house MinuteClinic, the retail medical clinic run by CVS.

LifeBridge Health Cardiovascular Institute, American Heart Association partner to test program that monitors, advises heart failure patients from home

Some Eastern European hackers were appalled to learn that American hospitals had become a target for online criminals, according to research by a New York computer security firm.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Monday she wants to expand her summer jobs program to a record 9,400 young people — but the city needs more businesses and community groups to step forward to provide work and funding.

A Walmart may no longer be looming for the Bel Air South area, but what's next for the empty plot of land at Route 924 and Plumtree Road?

Someone or group has stolen personal information from an unknown number of Baltimore City employees and filed fraudulent tax returns, the city announced Thursday to all employees.

MedStar Health is disputing a report by the Associated Press that the hospital company knew as early as 2007 about weaknesses in its system, which led to a massive cyber attack that encrypted its files.

DeRay Mckesson gets an endorsement from John Waters. Dooley, Lor Roger, and TLow went viral with their 'fuck Donald Trump' anthem. Light City was heavily attended, fairly diverse, and palpably fun.

MedStar Health said Sunday it had restored use of the computer system physicians use to access medical records of its ten hospitals remotely, according to an update on its website.

For all the enthusiasm about adopting electronic medical records, security remains a worry.

MedStar Health said 90 percent of its computer systems are back online Friday after it fell victim to a crippling attack that encrypted data this week.

On the weekend edition of the podcast: The MedStar hack, films from HBO and SXSW, the Baltimore dining scene, "Integrating the Orioles," and a role model ex-football player.

Even as some doctors reported improvements, MedStar Health continued to suffer computer problems Thursday after a crippling hack locked up date on its systems earlier in the week.

"What you really have is a hospital without beds, when you start to think about it," Bob Gilbert, president of MedStar Ambulatory Services, said as he walked around MedStar Health's newest – and largest – free-standing ambulatory care center Tuesday morning.

As MedStar Health suffered through a second day without access to its computer systems, a lobby security guard thumbed through printed sheets of patient information as visitors showed up at Union Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

The FBI is helping with the investigation of a major computer outage at MedStar Health, but the agency was unable to provide specifics about the problem.

Edward O. Clarke, Jr., an attorney for Piper and Marbury who helped craft the legal documents for bonds that financed numerous infrastructure and building projects around Maryland, died February 27 in Winchester, Va. of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 86.

In his second state of the county address, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman laid out of a four-point vision that will guide what he said has been a year of "rethinking, rebuilding, reorganizing and restructuring."

In his second state of the county address, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman laid out of a four-point vision that will guide what he said has been a year of "rethinking, rebuilding, reorganizing and restructuring."

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.

It is the nature of life that some things do not lend themselves to easy answers or perfectly happy endings, which is certainly true of the curious case of Gavin Class. Class is the Towson football player who nearly died after suffering massive internal damage from heatstroke and is now suing to force the university to let him make a storybook return to the Tigers roster.

Responding to a sense of social inequity that boiled over in poor Baltimore neighborhoods following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in April, area hospitals want to hire 1,000 extra entry-level workers to clean the floors and transport patients, as well as counsel addicts and guide people into health insurance.

The Baltimore County government plans to build a $25 million homeless shelter and family services center in Essex, to replace the dated and cramped existing building.

When Robert Parker arrived at Sharon Sawyers' home to pick her up for a doctor's appointment, as he had for around seven months, he realized something was wrong.

A Bel Air Walgreens is one of 200 stores across the country that its Illinois-based parent company is closing as part of a company-wide restructuring and cost-saving program.

Johns Hopkins is among the last two U.S. medical schools using live animals to train students. Third-year medical students take part in a surgery clerkship in which live pigs are anesthetized and cut open before being killed. While this animal lab is technically voluntary, medical students everywhere face enormous pressure to impress their professors, so nearly all students take part in this disturbing exercise. I understand the pressure that medical students face when confronted with this

The battle over the proposed Walmart south of Bel Air continues to heat up, with opponents planning another rally Saturday to protest the project.

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.

As physicians, we would prescribe a powdered alcohol ban in every state in order to ensure that our children are not recklessly exposed to dangerous products. We should be increasing access to treatment for alcohol use disorders and limiting the marketing of alcohol products to youth. The last thing our children need is another product that is far too easy for them to abuse.

Following the dictates of a charter amendment approved by county voters in November, the Harford County Council recently confirmed the appointment of a dozen deputy department heads in County Executive Barry Glassman's administration.

Harford County's long list of traffic improvements for Walmart's controversial proposed store in Bel Air South is inequitable when compared to less expensive conditions for developers of nearby properties, a Walmart spokesperson says.

As far back as the 1970s, the dangerous nature of plastics in our global waterways was identified. Images of turtles and birds entangled in soda six-pack liners heightened our awareness of the impact of plastic waste products on marine life. Now, there's a new danger: the accumulation of toxic chemicals in tiny plastic microbeads that are introduced into our waterways from many of the personal care products and over-the-counter drugs that we use everyday. These plastic microbeads represent a

Move over Pepsi, Budweiser and Coca-Cola. Such national brands, known for big-budget, attention-grabbing advertisements during the Super Bowl, will share the stage this year with regional advertisers looking to make a splash in a more targeted, lower-cost way.

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.