Highway Marker To Honor Cancer Patient, Henrietta Lacks
A poor black woman whose tumor cells helped scientists make advances in cancer treatment is being honored with a historical highway marker near her childhood home in Virginia.
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A poor black woman whose tumor cells helped scientists make advances in cancer treatment is being honored with a historical highway marker near her childhood home in Virginia.
The doctor at the center of a major medical scandal can no longer practice medicine in Maryland.
A rare disease has claimed the life of an MTA worker. He died from bacterial meningitis.
Parents have a new tool to fight childhood obesity. A new Kids Live Well initiative kicked off Wednesday and it's bringing healthier options to a restaurant near you.
The trial of a former Eastern Shore doctor accused of inserting unnecessary heart stents has begun in Baltimore.
There's no smoking indoors at Maryland bars and restaurants, but now one county is taking it a step further by banning smoking outdoors in public parks.
Killer heat descends on Maryland. Baltimore City is under a Code Red Heat Alert Monday and Tuesday. People working outside Monday battled the high temperatures and we've learned this dangerous heat has claimed the lives of two more people in Baltimore City.
Friday was a first time meeting like none other for six Marylanders. Three kidney transplant recipients met their three donors.
For decades Congress has used its power over the District of Columbia to ban the city from paying for abortions for poor women, but during a two-year period when lawmakers reversed course at least 300 women got city-funded procedures, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
Anne Arundel Medical Center's clinic at the Stanton Community Center provides low-cost dental and medical services to uninsured adults, while the hospital's Community Health Center on Forest Drive provides similar services to the underinsured — people who don't have strong insurance coverage.
Mosquito season has just begin but Maryland is already taking aggressive action to control the nuisance bugs.
Children usually don't have the words to express what they think or how they feel, so Child Life Specialist Jill Horn helps them work to express themselves when they're seriously ill.
Health officials in Maryland have backed off a summer camp sunscreen policy that would have limited who could apply sunscreen to campers.
It would be easy for Randy Samu to dwell on his misfortune. But that's not his nature.
Doctors say thousands of people living in Maryland are HIV positive and they don't even know it.
