national institutes of health

The effort to lure the FBI to Maryland could have a profound payoff for the state's economy but the benefits could take years to materialize and the impact would hinge on how local officials handle the project, several of the state's top economists say.

Energy drinks can kill

President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.9 trillion federal budget on Tuesday that calls for spending billions more on infrastructure, raising taxes on the wealthy and closing an income inequality gap the president has made a top target of his second term.

Expenses continue to climb for Harford County's far-reaching project to connect all public buildings and schools in Harford County via fiber-optic cable, known as HMAN, or Harford Metro Area Network, which officials expect to be operational sometime this spring.

Danger of energy drinks to youngsters is not to be taken lightly

Modern pesticides are safe to use

Asthma and pesticides

Johns Hopkins researchers are well on their way to building a digital library of children's brain images, which they say will give doctors around the world access to a free Google-like search engine that could help diagnose and treat pediatric neurological disorders.

Results of The Creative and Aging Study by Gene Cohen, a psychiatrist and director of George Washington University's Center on Aging, Health and the Humanities.

Government fund to assist families of sick or injured babies a better solution than 'malpractice lottery'

Announcing their first-ever joint agenda, the Democratic leaders of the General Assembly said Friday they will work together to pass legislation aimed at improving Maryland's business climate and boosting the state's economy.

University research has led to countless innovations that improve our health, protect the environment, strengthen our security and power our economy. Yet, federal support for such research has diminished, likewise diminishing the breakthroughs that research can produce.

Mikulski first bill appropriations chair

Healthy Howard is coming to the North Laurel, Savage and Jessup area. It will be starting a new Healthy Eating and Active Living Zone or HEAL Zone in our area.

Since winning the Intel, the biggest science prize for high schoolers, almost two years ago, Jack Andraka, 16, has become a globe-trotting ambassador for medical research and science education. But for all his travels, meeting the Clintons and other world leaders, it's his family that keeps him grounded — a brother who is also a gifted young scientist, and parents who let them run experiments in the basement and bathrooms of their Crownsville MD home.

Many in this community know Jim Tull. For over 20 years, Jim has repaired musical instruments for students all around the area, as well as the school system. Jim has decided to retire

Congratulations to Murray Hill Middle's Kevin He. He was selected to have his Student Spaceflight Experiment to be on Mission Five of the International Space Station.

While the recently announced two-year budget deal has put a temporary tourniquet on the sequester, it doesn't fully stop the drain of critical medical research funding.

FDA guidelines on use of antibiotics on livestock helpful but not enough to protect humans against drug-resistant bacteria

Research into sexual dysfunction is hurting innocent rodents

Animal advocacy group PETA wants to stop federally funded research it calls "sick animal sex experiments," including Johns Hopkins studies of erectile dysfunction using rodents.

Jonathan W. "JP" Pine Jr., a longtime editor at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer Health who was active in several patriotic organizations, died Thursday of lymphoma at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. He was 56.

State health officials are weighing new safeguards for research laboratories and biotechnology companies that handle potentially deadly infectious pathogens, but whether they will impose any remains a question because they don't know how big a threat there is.

The Frederick County sheriff's office identified three family members shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide in New Market on Wednesday night but said they would wait until speaking with relatives before releasing more information.

Popular TV host described losing her husband to cancer.

The Johns Hopkins University has regained a five-year, $70 million federal grant designed to change how researchers pursue medical treatments, but the University of Maryland, Baltimore was denied, the National Institutes of Health said Tuesday.

Founded on $1.2 million in state funding provided under the gun-control legislation that took effect this month, new Maryland center aims to target psychosis in a fresh way: By identifying it in the earliest stages and providing support before symptoms can spiral out of control.

Maryland's federal workers and contractors could once more be without paychecks in three months, which is bad news for holiday spending.

Congress Wednesday night approved a bipartisan deal to reopen the government and extend the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling into early next year, a measure that will send tens of thousands of federal employees in Maryland back to work.

Maryland's economic future rests on rejecting two damaging changes to the biopharmaceutical industry.

The president has effectively admitted to doing what he can to make the government shutdown as damaging as possible.

Dr. William R. Bell, an internationally known Johns Hopkins Hospital hematologist who conducted research into bleeding and clotting disorders, died Oct. 4 from complications of a blood clot at his Roland Park home. He was 78.

Credit unions offering loans and other assistance to federal workers

In a state where 300,000 people work for the federal government and countless more depend on its benefits, Maryland has been hard hit by the government shutdown. Here are five people, a researcher, a homeless mother, a veteran and two federal workers, and how the budget impasse has affected their lives.

In a state where 300,000 people work for the federal government and countless more depend on its benefits, Maryland has been hard hit by the government shutdown. Here are five people, a researcher, a homeless mother, a veteran and two federal workers, and how the budget impasse has affected their lives.

Federal agencies keep track of popcorn production and wallpaper sales, but figuring out exactly how many government employees have been furloughed by the shutdown in a state turns out to be a far trickier task.

I did something foolish last week. I spent at least four hours a day with cable TV news, starting Tuesday.

Some blood vessels don't show up on circulatory system diagrams, or even in the plain light of a laboratory lamp. These are microscopic, forming networks at the ends of the system, feeding living tissue with nutrients and carrying off wastes.

There is no room to negotiate when extremists take the federal government hostage — and threaten to do the same to the economy

President Barack Obama will make his case for reopening the federal government at a construction firm in Maryland on Thursday as a political solution to end the two-day-old shutdown remains elusive.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties in Congress dug in to their positions Tuesday, obscuring a path to a budget deal as federal agencies in Maryland and elsewhere prepared for the second day of a government shutdown.

Lawmakers in Congress were scrambling late Monday to settle on legislation to end the latest budget showdown even as federal agencies prepared to cut services and furlough hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

A possible government shutdown starting Tuesday would cause federal agencies in Maryland to close or seriously cut back operations, resulting in significant hardship for federal workers, as well as declining economic output and lower tax revenue for the state.

Republicans in the House of Representatives were set to approve a government funding bill Saturday that would delay the nation's health care law for one year — inching federal agencies closer to a shutdown analysts predict would have a significant economic impact in Maryland.

WASHINGTON — Thousands of workers at federal agencies based in Maryland would be furloughed and their work put on hold if Congress fails to reach an agreement in coming days to fund the government, a series of agency reports released by the Obama administration Friday show.

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

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