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The new 4MLK building in the University of Maryland BioPark will officially open next week with lab space and an incubator for startup companies in the Center for Translational Engineering and Medicine.
University of Maryland merges engineering and medicine to turn ideas into companies
A new center in the Baltimore biopark will help develop and commercialize technology that officials say will save and improve people’s lives.
An apartment complex in West Baltimore that housed PHA Healthcare patients, photographed on Friday, January 10 2025
PHA Healthcare ordered to ‘cease and desist’ after Banner investigation
PHA Healthcare, a drug addiction treatment provider that enrolls hundreds of Medicaid patients in Maryland each year, has been ordered by the state health department to stop providing services to patients.
Dr. Salifou Bishop, left, uses cryotherapy to remove a tumor from a patient at Loving Pet Care Hospital in Baltimore, Md., on Thursday, January 2, 2024. He is joined by Clarisse Hu, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder at Kubanda, center, and Katie Ogg, clinical engineer for Kubanda,
Your dog have cancer? These Hopkins grads have a cool way to treat it
A new tool, created by a pair of Johns Hopkins bioengineering students, is the first to use carbon dioxide to freeze tumors off dogs.
The Maryland Department of Health is located in the Herbert R. O'Conor State Office Building at 201 W. Preston Street in Baltimore.
Maryland extends pause on some new addiction, mental health programs to tackle Medicaid fraud
The moratorium, first announced in June, followed explosive growth of new providers, some of whom were described by officials as unscrupulous.
Amanda Vlakos was found dead of an overdose in September while enrolled in PHA Healthcare, a recovery program that offered free housing.
They entered treatment. Drugs, overdoses and deaths followed.
Baltimore addiction programs draw patients with free housing while collecting millions. Some say one program—PHA Healthcare—offered little help.
A sign reading "Deny, Defend, Depose, Health Care 4 All" hangs on an overpass on I-83 on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024.
Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO unites people ... against insurance companies
The fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has focused attention on the anger and frustrations of people around the country and in Maryland.
A screenshot of the Twitter/X account believed to be associated with Luigi Mangione.
What we know about Luigi Mangione’s back injury, surgery
Despite being in pain, Luigi Mangione did not complain often and was apparently not on any pain medication, a friend said.
Faresha Sim poses for a portrait in her apartment in the Avalon on April 20, 2024. She wears a mask and gloves the majority of the time because of mold.
Mold is everywhere. Maryland may try to do something about it.
State officials could set a threshold for when mold should be considered hazardous or mandate a time frame for remediation. But without more research, Maryland’s rules likely won’t go far enough.
Rachel Oslund, a home inspector, demonstrates how she uses a sticky test strip to collect potential mold spores from a window sill for further testing in a lab.
Think you have mold at home? Here’s when to call in the professionals.
Here are some frequently asked questions that could help determine when your mold problem is more than just a nuisance.
An illustration of the Legionella bacteria, which can cause Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever.
What is Legionella, the bacteria found in Baltimore office buildings?
The bacteria Legionella can be hard to pinpoint and harder to eradicate.
Ben Watson, who lost the ability to speak when he had surgery to remove a cancerous mass on his vocal cords, became one of several patients at Greater Baltimore Medical Center fitted with AVA Voice, a new device that is letting him speak more normally.
New technology helps people get their voices back. Marylanders are among the first to use it.
The next iteration could use AI to mimic the patient’s real voice.
A criminal extortion case against former top lawyer Stephen L. Snyder is also spotlighting problems at the University of Maryland Medical System.
Extortion trial could expose details about risky organ transplants at UMMS
Medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder’s extortion trial spotlights the underlying situation at UMMS that he was trying to expose.
“We’re Voting Yes” signs in support of reproductive rights.
Maryland abortion amendment passes, protecting against future restrictions
Voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot measure to solidify reproductive rights in Maryland’s constitution.
FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. As Americans head into the late 2022 holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections.
The CDC is pushing a vaccine for pneumonia — just not for the kind infecting kids
The pneumonia vaccine is now recommended for those age 50 and older, down from age 65.
From an FDA release: Enoki King Mushroom Farm of Ventura, CA is recalling lot 4877 of its 5.3-ounce (150g) packages of Enoki Mushroom (Product of USA) because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
Listeria, again? This time it’s in mushrooms
Enoki mushrooms are the latest food potentially contaminated with listeria, which can cause a deadly infection.
Victoria Richardson plays with her daughter Khalani, 1, and  son Zakari, 3, who both live with her.
These kids have never done drugs. They’re still being treated for addiction.
Opioids have devastated not just individuals in the rural Cecil County, but impacted children so heavily that officials are now treating addiction as a family affair.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has weighed in on the Abortion Care Access Act of 2022.
Maryland law closes a loophole in abortion care, attorney general says
Maryland is trying to eliminate an obscure rule that stopped Medicaid from paying for certain patients’ abortions.
One of the 3 procedure rooms at Partners in Abortion Care, a women-owned and operated abortion clinic providing abortions in all trimesters, based in College Park, Maryland.
Maryland is a safe haven for abortion care — with one obscure exception
Women who qualified for Medicaid because they are pregnant may have to foot the bill for an abortion.
Caucasian baby boy being vaccinated by a female pediatrician
It’s germ season. But getting flu and COVID boosters for babies may take patience.
Getting children flu and COVID vaccines this fall may take patience, as pharmacists can't vaccinate babies and pediatricians don't all have doses yet.
Belinda Robinson participated in a Johns Hopkins Medicine study to see if a common diabetes drug could help her regrow hair after she was diagnosed with alopecia.
A Hopkins doctor is using diabetes medicine to help Black women fight hair loss
A common drug used to treat diabetes may also help Black women with a type of alopecia, a Johns Hopkins scientist found.
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