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Lawmakers in a number of states including Maryland want to eliminate any question about patient consent in pelvic exams.

Jody Olsen was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia 50 years ago and earlier this year was named by President Trump to head the agency. She got her master's degree and later taught at the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland Baltimore, leaving to accept the Peace Corps directorship.

Dr. Claude J. Migeon, former longtime director of pediatric endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died March 4 from heart failure at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 94.

Josephine Olsen, a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and a veteran official at the Peace Corps, will be named to lead the organization, the White House said Wednesday.

The mission of the emerging Center for Music & Medicine is to combine the resources of the Hopkins medical community and the Peabody Institute to "integrate music into medical care" and improve the health of musicians worldwide.

Johns Hopkins researchers have worked on keeping blood, medication, vaccines consistently cool during drone trips

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Brain Injury Outcomes program and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has won a 7-year, $25 million grant to join forces with Tufts University School of Medicine to create a trial innovation center that will be the framework for studies conducted between different institutions.

UM's divestment from fossil fuel investments does more harm than good.

Two Baltimore institutions will share in $11 million in new funding from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at preventing the spread of germs, which continues to be both a deadly and costly problem in health care settings.

Suzanne Shaw, a social worker who was the founder of the Women's Literary Review, died Dec. 1 at Copper ridge assisted-living in Sykesville of complications of dementia. She was 60.

Bala Ambati graduated from Baltimore City College High School at age 11. Now 36, he is an eye surgeon in Utah and says he has no regrets about his warp-speed path through life.

Paul Theodore Pojman, a professor of philosophy at Towson University and a community activist, died Sept 20 of lung cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 45.

The American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a second time that the Supreme Court invalidate Myriad Genetics Inc.'s patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, the latest salvo in a case with broad consequences for the future of gene-based medicine.

Eileen S. Tarcay, who had taught English and journalism at Coppin State University and was a prolific contributor of freelance articles to The Baltimore Sun, died Feb. 18 from complications of a stroke at a Salt Lake City nursing home. The former Homeland resident was 97.