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As officials investigate how the nurses contracted Ebola despite following safety guidelines, caregivers in Maryland are examining if they have the training and equipment to protect themselves should the virus travel here.

Officials from Harford County's hospital system said they are prepared to deal with any possibility of the Ebola virus occurring in the county, but they declined to say specifically what that protocol would look like.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Unfortunately, too many of us have been personally affected by this disease. According to the CDC, over 220,000 women and 2,000 men were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. Excluding some forms of skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common kind of cancer among women, and a leading cause of death among women of various ethnicities.

Government-run health care fails again as Ebola shows signs of spreading

If the transmission of the deadly Ebola virus from a now-deceased patient to one of his nurses occurred because of a "protocol breach," what does that say about the general state of patient and caregiver safety in hospitals across the country?

The CDC needs to get to the bottom of how a nurse in Texas became infected with the virus despite following rigorous safety protocols

Officials urge vaccinations as Eastern Shore man becomes first confirmed case of seasonal influenza

Health experts say vaccination now can protect all season

U.S. faces a challenging fight against a dreaded disease in West Africa

Federal officials announced Wednesday that they plan to screen international passengers for Ebola at five major U.S. airports, while hospitals around the country continue to isolate patients showing Ebola-like symptoms.

In 2014, three separate and independent groups of experts found that children do much better with shared parenting — joint custody — on multiple measures of wellbeing than with single parenting. Yet in more than eight out of 10 custody cases today, one parent — usually the mother — is awarded sole guardianship.

A man who was admitted to the National Institute of Health in Bethesda last week after being exposed to Ebola was released Tuesday, after his symptoms were determined not to be related to the virus, the NIH said.

Mr. Obama set out to restore faith in government and liberalism. He ended up throwing them both under the bus for the sake of his party.

In the last few weeks we've heard a lot about the Ebola epidemic and work to contain its spread and potentially tragic consequences. But influenza is a preventable infectious disease that represents a much greater risk to the health of Marylanders.

Officials at Washington, D.C. area hospitals ruled out Ebola in two patients who were suspected of having the deadly virus as national and local health authorities sought to reassure the public that they were prepared for an outbreak.

Officials at one of the hospitals, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, determined late Friday that their patient had malaria, not Ebola, hospital officials said in a statement late Friday.

The attorney representing school board member Cindy Vaillancourt used lawyerly words in refuting the July complaint against her that came to light last week.

Maryland public health officials are putting caregivers — from Baltimore's major teaching hospitals to strip-mall urgent care centers to ambulances — on heightened alert for signs of Ebola as details emerge about missteps in Dallas where a man with the deadly virus was initially sent home from a hospital.

An Ebola case in Dallas shows just how easily the deadly disease can spread to America — and fall through the cracks of our health system

Breast Cancer Survivorship Program addresses unexpected side effects

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson's resignation after revelations of serious security lapses by the president's protective detail must be followed by an independent investigation of the agency's failures

President Obama issued an executive order last month, called "Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria." In essence, it's a broad spectrum plan to keep antibiotics working. There's a lot of good in there, but in one very important way, the new executive order report falls short. It doesn't get tough on factory farms.

Breast cancer gets a lot of attention ¿ and not just during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There¿s a good reason for that, as any of the quarter-million American women diagnosed with breast cancer each year will tell you. But breast cancer isn¿t the only serious health risk women should be aware of, according to county health professionals.

Grocers and produce companies, including Mars Super Markets, are turning to Big Bird and other Sesame Street icons to make fruits and vegetables as appealing as cookies

An American doctor who contracted Ebola while volunteering to treat patients with the virus in Sierra Leone was admitted to the National Institute of Health in Bethesda on Sunday, the institute said.

Lecturing on the benefits of regular exercise won't change anyone's sedentary habits, but creating an environment that supports routine physical activity will. That's the basic message that public health, planning and transportation expert Mark Fenton plans to deliver.

Suicide: Inexplicable, yes, but still frighteningly common

The fatal rabies virus is held at bay by pet vaccination and reporting animal bites

Carroll Hospital Center and other providers are prepared for enterovirus, but the best defense is still to wash your hands

Focus of prescription drug collection day has turned to treatment and prevention, and away from law enforcement, officials say

Child in suburban Maryland tests positive for respiratory illness crossing the country

A Baltimore jury has awarded nearly $2.1 million to a 17-year-old city youth who, according to his lawyer, was lead-poisoned as a toddler in the late 1990s while living in an East Baltimore rental home.

Baltimore City Health Department offers packet to seniors to help prevent serious falls.

Carroll Hospital Center sees no distinction between nicotine gum and smoking, despite little supporting evidence.

Americans should get their flu shot before stressing out over Ebola virus

Local health officials on the lookout for unusual strain of enterovirus already confirmed in neighboring states

GOP attacks on Obamacare have subsided thanks to its successes but that doesn't mean U.S. health care system is in good shape

Hand washing and basic hygiene is enough to ward off enterovirus

As health officials fail to contain West Africa's Ebola outbreak, hospitals in Baltimore and across the U.S. are readying space and equipment for what some consider an inevitability – the arrival of the deadly virus here.

Two people who stayed at an Econo Lodge in northern Ocean City this summer have tested positive for Legionnaires' disease and low levels of Legionella bacteria were found in the hotel's water pipes, Worcester County health officials said.