Critics Urge Moving Away From Maryland Health Exchange
Democratic and Republican critics of Maryland's health exchange are urging state officials to consider other options to signing up state residents for health care plans.
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Democratic and Republican critics of Maryland's health exchange are urging state officials to consider other options to signing up state residents for health care plans.
The city of Hagerstown is asking citizens to commit to 100 miles of exercise in 100 days.
Customers are shopping again at an Anne Arundel County Walmart after the store shut down for hours.
Sweeping changes to the nation's health care will soon impact the snacks you buy from vending machines. The Food & Drug Administration finalizes guidelines on how calorie information will be displayed.
It's a fight Carroll knows all too well, a struggle against a typically white or brown powdered substance that presents itself as a euphoric high and a warm sensation throughout the body.
Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration will submit emergency legislation at the start of Maryland's legislative session next week aimed at insuring people who thought they had successfully enrolled in a health care plan through the state's health exchange but had not -- through no fault of their own, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced Friday.
In North America, about 100 times a year, a heart is transplanted into a child four and younger. Now, a little girl from Baltimore is waiting for her chance.
A Supreme Court justice issued an 11th hour reprieve for religious organizations opposed to offering birth control as part of their health insurance plans.
Surveys show that half of all New Year's resolutions involve improving one's health.
There's heightened concern across the country as flu numbers continue to rise. Several children have died from the virus.
A woman who lives just over the border in Pennsylvania is drawing national attention for her beliefs.
There are about 115 dialysis centers across Maryland, but that number is in danger of dropping. The reason? A looming 9.4 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursement rates that providers and advocates worry will force some centers to close their doors, lay off workers or sacrifice quality of care. That would reduce the average per-patient payment from about $230 to $200.
Maryland health officials said Friday that enrollment in private health insurance on the state exchange increased by more than 50 percent during the third week of December, totaling 11,715 signups since the website launched in October.
A state study of the possible public health effects of natural gas drilling in far western Maryland will be broad in scope but won't recommend for or against hydraulic fracturing, the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Tuesday.
While Americans around the country scramble to meet the deadline to sign up for Affordable Health Care coverage to start Jan. 1, Marylanders have until Friday. The insurers in Maryland's Health Care Exchange agreed to extend the deadline for those who want coverage in January until Dec. 27.
