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A new report highlights actions Maryland has taken that will reduce gun deaths.

White Marsh Mall started the special Santa event last year after an autism group requested it, and it also has a sensory friendly Easter Bunny in the springtime, said Annie Wildasin, the mall's marketing manager.

A former hospital technician in Maryland was sentenced to 39 years in federal prison on Monday for his role in the spread of hepatitis C to patients at multiple hospitals around the country.

Social media platforms have a wealth of data on the state of their users' health thanks to regular updates on Facebook and Twitter. By aggregating this information, social media can be used to identify outbreaks and help inform the public of hazards in their area.

On Monday, Dec. 2, in support of World AIDS Day, the Harford County Health Department will offer free walk-in confidential or anonymous HIV testing at 1 N. Main Street in Bel Air, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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.

This year's flu season got off to an early start, and public health officials are asking people to get their vaccinations to ward off a serious outbreak.

Annapolis High School junior Dajuan Gay left an after school job early on Wednesday afternoon to petition the Anne Arundel board of education for later school start times and then departed to resume a regimented daily schedule that usually ends with bedtime at 1 a.m

One irresponsible state court ruling is causing the death of countless pit bulls

I fully support liberating any animal from abuse. It does not follow however, that rescued animals — pit bulls in particular — should be pushed as companion pets by shelters and rescue organizations.

The fact is, giving low-dose, medically-unnecessary antibiotics to livestock and poultry to speed up growth and prevent disease breeds dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria.

Budget cuts, CDC reorganization threaten to reverse progress in eliminating the entirely preventable threat of childhood lead poisoning.

Residency programs in the medical specialty that deals with foot and ankle injuries and disease have disappeared in Maryland, but the demand for services is increasing.

Coke: No 'magic bullet' for America's obesity epidemic

U.S. agency takes a preventive approach to protecting, pets and farm animals

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $30,000 to help educate Baltimore families about the risks to young children of lead poisoning, which despite progress made in reducing exposure over the years still affects nearly 3,000 youngsters across Maryland.

Today, with nearly five times as many lounges peddling a relaxing experience around a water-filled flavored tobacco pipe — including many that allow patrons to bring in their own alcohol — legislators in Baltimore County are looking for a way to regulate hookah lounges and gain control over what County Councilman Todd Huff described as "a community menace."

On Saturday, Oct. 5, at 9 a.m., is the first Pathway out of Pain Sickle Cell Disease 5K Walk at Rockburn Branch Park West (rain or shine).

The number of Maryland children poisoned by lead fell to a new low again last year, even as state officials expanded their effort to deal with a much larger pool of youngsters harboring lower levels of the harmful substance in their blood.

State health investigators suspect a deadly outbreak of infections at Monarch Medspa in Timonium last year may have stemmed from "visibly dirty" equipment or two health care workers who carried the same bacterium found in patients, according to a report released Friday.

During a weekend gathering of black alumni from the University of Maryland Law School in which the continuing inequalities faced by African-Americans was discussed, one participant called for Baltimore to preserve the city's tradition of public pools.

When Brian Kahatt discovered a marble-sized lump on his neck a few years ago, he didn't think anything of it. When it didn't go away after a couple of months, he decided to see a doctor.

Giant Food and other retailers, include Rite Aid and Walmart, offer flu shots

As Maryland health officials ready a push to enroll the state's estimated 800,000 uninsured residents in coverage becoming available Jan. 1, they face a test of finding them first.

After having malignant tumor removed in 2011, junior outside hitter thrives for No. 2 Gators

In light of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's reports Friday of the first three confirmed cases of symptomatic West Nile virus this year, Harford County Health Department is recommending resident take measures to prevent infection and reduce risk

Some are still offended by women nursing in public, but perceptions are changing

Government-backed nutrition programs key to reducing obesity rates

Not just public health but economy suffers when restaurants employees come to work ill

Woman accused of rubbing methadone on 1-year-old's gums

The Baltimore County Health Department reported Friday that an unidentified person at Parkville High School was diagnosed with tuberculosis and that about 60 people had been informed that they may have been exposed.

Pregnancy centers are far better than the alternatives

Maryland laws about child-seat safety

The row of brick duplexes on Yakona Road in Towson has been empty for months, the occupants gone after reaching a settlement with a gas station company they claimed had contaminated their properties. The houses are set to be razed later this summer, and a 4-acre park built in their place.

I note with great displeasure in the June 27 edition of the Laurel Leader that we are again going to put on a hot dog-eating contest on Main Street to celebrate the Glorious Sixth. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 60 million Americans are now obese, and I am certain I could shed a few pounds. At the same time, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15 percent of families in America suffer some "food insecurity." Yet we are going to encourage people to gorge in public until

Jonah Goldberg writes that it's ironic that Obamacare supporters also demand unfettered access to abortion.

The FDA finally takes on the tobacco industry over the health risks posed by cigarettes

Johns Hopkins Medicine and Walgreens are collaborating on a new drugstore that they expect will open in East Baltimore by the end of the year, they announced Thursday.

Doctors who have been trying to stem the number of c-sections in recent years got good news this morning when new federal data showed that the rate of the procedure has started to level off.