Committee Recommends New Hospital Site In Largo
Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker and a search committee are recommending building a new regional hospital at Largo Town Center.
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Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker and a search committee are recommending building a new regional hospital at Largo Town Center.
Spread by the deer tick, Lyme disease is a lot more common than thought. Maryland is one of 13 states with the highest rates of infection.
A disease with no known cure kills a horse on the Eastern Shore, and it can kill humans as well. It's carried by mosquitoes, and it may be even more dangerous than the West Nile virus.
Prison officials say an inmate at a western Maryland prison has been treated at a hospital for Legionnaires' disease.
Montgomery County police say as many people have died from heroin overdoses in the last few months as in the previous three years combined.
Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to talk about upcoming changes with the implementation of health care reform.
Drugs and deaths. The Maryland Health Department is addressing a 15 percent hike in fatal drug overdoses in Maryland.
While childhood obesity continues to be an epidemic in the U.S., for the first time in years, the obesity rate for low income preschoolers is showing signs of improvement.
A Maryland man celebrates the 30th anniversary of his heart transplant. This week's milestone makes him one of the nation's longest surviving heart transplant patients.
Embracing medical marijuana. One of the most high profile doctors in the nation reverses his position on the controversial treatment.
About 60 years ago, a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital removed cancer cells from a poor, black patient named Henrietta Lacks without telling her. Those cells eventually led to many life-saving medical treatments.
American Airlines is drawing the scorn of mothers who nurse their babies.
Maryland has opened a call center to help residents learn more about health care reform.
Serious concerns in Baltimore County after the health department confirms a case of tuberculosis at Parkville High School.
While cancer patients in Maryland continue to risk arrest for buying marijuana, neighboring Washington D.C. opens its first marijuana dispensaries.
