O'Malley Delays Action On $2.4 Billion Drug Contract
Gov. Martin O'Malley is pulling a $2.4 billion prescription drug contract from consideration before a state board, saying a challenge to the deal should be completed first.
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Gov. Martin O'Malley is pulling a $2.4 billion prescription drug contract from consideration before a state board, saying a challenge to the deal should be completed first.
Senate Republicans are seeking a federal investigation into whether a proposed tax on Maryland hospitals violates an agreement between the state and the federal government that limits how much patients pay for care.
It was exactly 10 weeks ago Saturday a gunman went on a shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. Nineteen people were shot, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Spring is right around the corner and with it comes more pollen, making life miserable for allergy sufferers.
It's Match Day, the day fourth-year medical students across the country learn where they will begin their careers as doctors.
Cases of prescription drug abuse are soaring in Maryland, and the state needs a database to monitor prescriptions to help fight a serious public health concern, a top state health official told a panel of lawmakers Thursday.
When forensic investigator Linda Altizer isn't determining a cause of death, she's traveling the globe trying to help the living. Altizer recently returned from Liberia, a small country in West Africa. For nine days, she trained new nurses and administered malaria testing kits to residents in the most rural reaches of the country, which has been struggling to rebuild since its civil war ended in 2003.
A museum that holds the world's largest collections of brains and microscopes is preparing to close its doors at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington and move to Silver Spring.
The West Coast of the United States is some 5,000 miles away from the coast of Japan. Many residents want to know: Is it possible for the radiation to travel across the Pacific all the way to America?
Rancor over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has largely overshadowed some states' efforts to use the law to help them move as fast as possible to insure more people and increase control over insurance companies.
Maryland's public health agency says it has found no statistically significant evidence of a cancer cluster near Fort Detrick in Frederick after expanding its investigation.
Music teacher Rachel Morgan and a kindergarten class at William Winchester Elementary School won the grand prize in the Lysol Blue Ribbon Classroom Hand Washing Song Contest. The contest was open to any classroom in grades pre-K through fifth grade in any public or private school in the country.
Maryland's health department is investigating why records documenting lead poisoning among children in the state were destroyed.
The city of Baltimore is getting healthy about food by launching the Healthy Food Initiative. It's an effort to get nutritious meals to those most in need.
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first new drug to treat lupus in over 50 years, a milestone that medical experts say could prompt development of other drugs that are even more effective in treating the debilitating immune system disorder.
