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University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers discover how some bacteria can promote cancer

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered that a bacterial protein interferes with an infected cell's ability to respond to and repair DNA, a problem that can cause cancer.

By Sarah Meehan

Dec 5, 2018

• Opinion

Rise in STDs is alarming

Increased frequency of sexually transmitted diseases needs to be addressed.

• Health

STDs such as syphilis and gonorrhea rising rapidly in Maryland

Doctors and public officials in Maryland are dealing with increasing STD rates.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Sep 18, 2018

• Opinion

Trump's family planning dystopia

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.

• Opinion

Don't bill health insurance for condoms

If people can't afford contraceptives on their own, let them abstain from sexual contact.

• Opinion

Birth control pills offer limited help

Allowing pharmacists to dispense birth control pills is problematic

• Politics

Maryland Democratic leaders support Planned Parenthood funding bill

As Congress and the Trump administration move toward a possible cutoff of federal money for Planned Parenthood, Democratic leaders in the General Assembly are rallying around a planto have the state fill the funding gap.

By Michael Dresser

Mar 8, 2017

• Health

Drug to protect against HIV not reaching those most at risk

Many of the people most at risk for contracting HIV in Baltimore know nothing about a drug that is 92 percent effective in preventing the virus, research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Oct 21, 2016

• Sun Investigates

Baltimore has some of the country's worst health outcomes, disparities

Health of African Americans in Baltimore is bad by many measures, but conditions are the same in other urban areas

By Meredith Cohn

Sep 3, 2016

• Health

Shortage of penicillin threatens treatment for those with syphilis

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis can be cured with a shot of penicillin if it's found early, but a national shortage is threatening to put this simple treatment out of reach in places like Baltimore where the infection rate far exceeds that of the nation.

By Meredith Cohn

May 26, 2016

• Maryland

Complaceny is the enemy during STD Awareness Month

There may never be a perfect time to talk about sexually transmitted diseases, but April, being Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness Month, is at least the next best thing to perfect: State health officials are encouraging people to talk about risks, get tested and to get treated.

• Health

UMBC researcher works on faster STD test seen as key to prevention

Researchers across the country, including at the University and Maryland, Baltimore County and John Hopkins University, hope to slow the rise of STDs by developing faster tests that allow patients to get results in mere minutes rather than days.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Jan 29, 2016

• Hospitals and Clinics

Anne Arundel County health briefs

• Health

Study ties Md. alcohol tax increase to decline in gonorrhea cases

Research published Wednesday suggested a surprising consequence to an increase in Maryland's alcohol tax: Thousands of fewer cases of gonorrhea.

By Scott Dance

Dec 9, 2015

• Baltimore City Paper

Savage Love: The Sister Act

I'm a straight female in my mid 20s. I've been dating a wonderful guy for two years—but I recently found something that has put me on edge. Before we met, he was in a relationship with a terrible, alcoholic, and mentally unstable woman. They got pregnant early in the relationship and stayed together for about five years. We met a year after they broke up. I felt like I'd come to terms with the ugliness of his past, with his trying to stay in a bad relationship for the sake of his child and

• Opinion

Anne Arundel County health briefs

• Health

Johns Hopkins researchers develop hand-held chlamydia test

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a low-cost diagnostic tool, slightly larger than a coffee mug, that detects chlamydia within 30 minutes.

• Hospitals and Clinics

Anne Arundel County health briefs

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Anne Arundel County health briefs

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• Opinion

Another furor over contraceptives

Schools are making contraceptives available, but if parents want to know if their kids are having sex they should just ask them

• Health

Reforms aim to make medical research safer for its subjects

• Hospitals and Clinics

Anne Arundel County health brief

• Opinion

Pills don't prevent STDs

Better to advocate for condoms that prevent sexually transmitted diseases than to push birth control pills on women

• Health

Hopkins faces $1B lawsuit over role in government study that gave subjects STDs

Nearly 800 former research subjects and their families filed a billion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the Johns Hopkins University, blaming the institution for its role in 1940s and 1950s experiments in Guatemala that infected hundreds with syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases.

By Scott Dance

Apr 1, 2015

• Hospitals and Clinics

Anne Arundel County health briefs

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Anne Arundel County health briefs

• Maryland

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month

• Health

Evergreen Health Co-op aims to compete with the health care giants

Dr. Peter Beilenson thought fighting the intractable rates of drug use and sexually transmitted diseases in Baltimore was tough. Then the former city health commissioner took on health insurance.

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 17, 2015

• Baltimore Sun

Anne Arundel County health briefs

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Anne Arundel County health briefs

• Maryland

There's a shot that prevents cancer. No one wants it.

The HPV vaccine could save thousands of lives each year. So why aren't parents vaccinating their children?

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• Health

Teaching about STDs through comic books

Baltimore students created a graphic novel about sexual health at a six-week program at the Baltimore Health Department this summer.

• Anne Arundel

Anne Arundel County health briefs

• Anne Arundel

Anne Arundel County health briefs

• Health

University of Maryland wins grant to study STDs

Researchers to use funds to find better treatment, prevention for gonorrhea, chlamydia