A member of Goucher College's Board of Trustees is spending millions of dollars funding anti-vaccination movements, according to a Washington Post report.

Baltimore's Jewish Orthodox community had been fighting for four years to mitigate anti-vaxxers' influence on the community. Now there's added urgency.

A fourth measles case has been confirmed in a person in the Pikesville area, the Maryland Department of Health reports. Public health officials had said the virus is highly contagious and other cases were possible since the first case was reported April 5.

Maryland health officials have confirmed a third case of measles in Maryland.

A second Maryland resident has tested positive for measles, the highly contagious viral infection that has been spreading rapidly across the country, state health officials said Tuesday. 

A case of measles has been confirmed in Maryland, and the Maryland Department of Health has issued a warning for those who might have been exposed to the infectious respiratory disease.

Sinai Hospital is asking children under age 14 to avoid the campus unless the have an appointment after a child was diagnosed with measles last week.

A group of local Jewish spiritual leaders, schools and organizations is calling for vigilance in vaccination after a child in Pikesville was diagnosed with measles.

Maryland health officials confirmed Friday that the state has logged its first case of measles, a highly contagious viral infection that has been spreading in several other states in numbers not seen in decades. 

The St. Mary's County Health Department is investigating a suspected measles case.

Howard County schools and the Maryland Partnership for Prevention will administer free flu shots to students from Oct. 1-15.

Immunization required before school starts

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is alerting people to the risk of possible measles exposure in Prince George's County. While those who have had at least one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine are at low risk of acquiring measles, it is highly contagious among the unvaccinated, spreading through the air due to coughing and sneezing.

A billionaire's toddler gets vaccinated and, for better or worse, the world demands its two cents

Maryland should implement mandatory influenza vaccination for children in licensed child care and preschool programs.

Baltimore County child tests negative for measles after hospital visit

Baltimore County child is tested for measles after visiting city hospital with symptoms

Rite Aid Corp. is the latest retailer to step into the medical clinic market, a concept that has grown exponentially since the first opened in 2000.

After the worst month for measles in more than two decades, public health officials gathered at the Johns Hopkins University on Monday to talk about ways to prevent 2015 from becoming the worst year.

Carroll County and Maryland on the whole are well-vaccinated against measles, but officials say to take nothing for granted

Measles outbreak demonstrates need for vaccinations — except to the know-nothings running for president

A growing measles outbreak linked to Disneyland in Southern California has touched a nerve with health officials in Maryland and across the country who are warning about a rebound in diseases that had been rendered extremely rare.

A Baltimore 12-month-old with a suspected case of measles, a highly contagious respiratory disease, does not have the virus, city health officials said Thursday.

Unfortunately — and often all too tragically— a growing percentage of students enter or return to school without the most important back to school requirement: vaccinations. These students are part of a new generation vulnerable to childhood diseases that have long since been under control but are now making a comeback due to parental misinformation and bad science.

New standards call for additional vaccinations for schoolchildren

Shots for chickenpox, meningitis and Tdap

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley warn that Maryland will be hit hard by the indiscriminate budget cuts known as sequestration.

A dozen or more cases of mumps have been reported among Loyola University Maryland students over the past month, prompting officials to warn the campus community to be alert for signs of the rare virus.

Baltimoreans' tax dollars have directly improved public health on a range of issues, from AIDS to lead paint to measles

Hearing aids have improved the quality of many people's lives, but most users have learned they are less than ideal in noisy environments.

Stay on top of new back-to-school health guidelines about everything from germs and vaccines to bullying and concussions.

With a president like Mitt Romney, the rich wouldn't feel pressured to be noble and could instead spend it all on themselves.

Chicken pox, whooping cough vaccine to be beefed up under state recommendations

Maryland recently saw its first case of measles since 2009, part of a trend of increased prevalence of dangerous but controllable diseases in the wake of misinformation-fueled distrust of vaccines.

Margaret Dunkle, a researcher at George Washington University's Department of Health Policy, says we need more research into the effects of the combined vaccination regimen for children to determine their safety.