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Dr. William A. Reinke, a statistician who helped develop the department of international health at what is now the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he was professor for 50 years, died Oct. 4 at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville of lymphoma. He was 86.

In Chennai, India, children are running against an unforgiving clock.

"Radiance of Tomorrow" explores Sierra Leone's attempts to rebuild itself after a decade-long civil war

While there has been strong focus on concussions in recent years (all 50 states and the District of Columbia now have concussion safety laws), no similar effort has been made in this country to enact laws to protect children playing sports from abuse -- whether it be physical, emotional, psychological or sexual -- at the hands of coaches, parents and other athletes.

We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the dangers of marijuana.

The violent civil war in Syria has put its population at acute risk for a large polio outbreak.

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Music Together of Catonsville celebrates International Day of Peace

Maryland hospitals will be encouraged to have a written breast-feeding policy and promote the creation of breast-feeding support groups under new recommendations announced by state health officials Tuesday to encourage more moms to feed their babies human milk.

Health organizations have spent millions in the developing world attacking a worldwide epidemic of anemia in pregnant women. This year, a team of undergraduates from Hopkins has invented a device that could help turn the problem on its head.

Republicans fail to offer a foreign policy alternative beyond another war

Annapolis hopes to resurrect its arts district with 20 fiberglass chicken sculptures.

West Friendship: Chili cook-offs are definitely hot stuff. Especially when the spicy delicacy is being prepared by young Mitchell Feaga.

Recommendations may include banning formula samples at hospitals and offering education programs

Regulations to allow Maryland campaign contributions by text message are winding their way though a state approval process, and the system is expected to be in place early next year. The new method of giving is intended to encourage younger, tech-savvy donors to get involved in campaigns.

A Doctors Without Borders physician describes the good American anti-AIDS programs are doing, and the risks posed by 'supercommittee' cuts.

Thirty-six kids arrived in the U.S. July 3 from Bogota. The orphans, all older and therefore harder to adopt out, are on the ultimate summer vacation, leaving behind lives spent in institutions or foster homes.