Science and medicine

LifeBridge Health says gun trafficking is a public health problem and it needs the public to get involved to find solutions.

Dr. Devesh Kanjarpane has been trying for years to convert a former auto parts warehouse in West Baltimore into a health center that will also dispense methadone.

An executive order from the Trump administration could upend research by pausing NIH grants, which scientists say could harm health and the economy.

Clifton T. Perkins will get new leadership after the state’s psychiatric hospital CEO made threats to staff.

The temperature is forecast to be below freezing tonight, so don’t forget a hat and multiple layers if you go outside to look at the “wolf moon.”

A new center in the Baltimore biopark will help develop and commercialize technology that officials say will save and improve people’s lives.

New research from Johns Hopkins suggests people with naturally lower brain chemicals called dopamine find exercise more burdensome and may lose motivation faster.

A new tool, created by a pair of Johns Hopkins bioengineering students, is the first to use carbon dioxide to freeze tumors off dogs.

If you’re able to withstand the cold and wind, Thursday night could be one of your best shots to see a meteor shower this year.

Baltimore City embraces a Plan B for rats, so to speak.

The folks at the Space Telescope Science Institute arguably know the James Webb Space Telescope best — so we asked them for their favorite images or discoveries from the last year.

The bacteria Legionella can be hard to pinpoint and harder to eradicate.

The next iteration could use AI to mimic the patient’s real voice.

KC, the avatar of an AI chatbot developed by Annapolis lobbyist Johntel Greene, told me that her debut before the next General Assembly as a portal and phone app should be newsworthy. It could be revolutionary.

The president of Planned Parenthood Maryland and president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., say more needs to be done to protect access to abortion care in Maryland.

Gaithersburg-based Emergent BioSolutions got approval to make more smallpox vaccine for use against mpox, but it won’t be produced in Baltimore.

Maryland officials found the insidious chemicals in water at 34 schools.

The Baltimore hospital will use a $10 million gift to help pay tuition for medical students training there.

Measures to protect access have already qualified to go before voters this year in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and South Dakota. Meanwhile, competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska.

A stream in Oregon Ridge has been named after “Reds” Wolman, the famed Johns Hopkins scientist who would have turned 100 this week.