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Baby Braelyn, born in the early morning hours of February 29, 2024, at Sinai Hospital, is one of an estimated 5 million living people with leap day birthdays.
Meet the ‘leaplings’: These Maryland babies got a special leap day birthday
The odds of being born on Feb. 29, which comes every four years, is 1 in 1,461. These Maryland babies beat the odds.
The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. is seen on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
Maryland psychiatric hospital CEO, accused of threatening staff, agrees to stay away
Dr. Scott Moran consented to a peace order without the judge ruling and without admitting to the allegations.
Xolair, a new injection to treat food allergies, from the manufacturer Genentech. (Photo courtesy of Genentech)
Food allergies scared his patients. A Hopkins doctor helped find the first treatment.
The FDA just approved the first therapy to lessen severe and life-threatening reactions from food allergies.
A Planned Parenthood clinic.
U. of Maryland will launch training program for abortion providers this summer
The effort stands in contrast to those in more conservative states that moved to limit abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The Maryland Department of Health offices in Baltimore.
State replaces health system contractor auditors found cost the state millions
The current vendor “has just failed to deliver” the level of service that Marylanders deserve, said Gov. Wes Moore, one of three members of the Board of Public Works that approved the contract.
Scientists took images of bird brains to gather proof about how they evolved to fly. The colored part is the cerebellum, the part responsible for flight.
Call them bird-brained, but Hopkins scientists say it’s why pigeons can fly
John Hopkins scientists say they have the evidence to finally explain why birds can fly, and it starts with their big brains.
The top official at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center is accused of threatening other staff.
Maryland psychiatric hospital CEO on leave, accused of threatening staff
A restraining order was issued against the top official at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center.
COVID-19 rapid tests on a table outside Damien Ford’s Baltimore School for The Arts classroom on Dec. 21, 2022.
Do at-home COVID tests work? Here’s what Maryland scientists found.
You probably have a box of tests on the shelf. Is it worth using?
The biotech company Haystack Oncology spun from technology developed at Johns Hopkins University has signed a long-term lease in City Garage, part of the Baltimore Peninsula development in South Baltimore.
One biotech company is leaving, one is staying. What does that say about Baltimore?
Baltimore is working to keep biotech companies that start here from leaving when they grow bigger.
There is a program showing success at getting and keeping people in housing in Baltimore, but funding for the program is at risk.
A Baltimore program keeps people healthy and housed. Hospitals may stop funding it anyway.
As funding dries up, more than 200 formerly homeless Baltimoreans could lose the support of a program helping them stay under a roof and out of the hospital.
Julia Harkin needed a liver transplant and her daughter Eileen Harkin became a living donor to save her life. A little over a year later in December, she needed a kidney and Eileen gave her that too, becoming a rare two-time living donor. They are pictured recovering in Julia's Frederick home on January 22, 2024.
This woman donated an organ to save her mother’s life — twice
Eileen Harlin is one of just a dozen living people to donate both a liver and a kidney to save someone else's life.
The Maryland State House is encircled by construction scaffolding for an ongoing renovation project, as lawmakers returned to Annapolis for the first day of their 90-day General Assembly session on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024.
A housing program that kept Marylanders out of hospitals could get state funding
The little-known housing program supports about 900 households statewide and is now set to expand.
A dejected Ravens fan buries their head in their hands as hope for the Ravens victory starts to slip away.
Ravens fans wanted this to be the year. It wasn’t, but they’re still proud.
After a tough loss to the Chiefs, Ravens fans said they still count the season a success.
Baltimore police pull a body from the Harbor near the 600 block of E Pratt street.
Rescuers said person pulled from icy Baltimore harbor was dead. She wasn’t. Here’s why.
Rescuers said a woman who fell in Baltimore’s icy harbor died, but later said she didn’t. A doctor calls the reason basic physiology.
There is a growing link between the number of pets surrendered and abandoned and housing issues, including evictions and rising rents. Baltimore County Animal Services took in Storm Ray the pit bull this year. She was available for adoption as of Jan. 10.
How bad is Maryland’s housing crisis? Check the animal shelters
Trouble finding affordable housing that allows pets is now the most common reason animals are surrendered at Baltimore-area shelters.
MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 28: A pedestrian walks past the Leading Insurance Agency, which offers plans under the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) on January 28, 2021 in Miami, Florida.
How to sign people up for health insurance? Free food and Santa photo ops
The number of Black people who signed up for insurance on Maryland's health exchange jumped by 33% to more than 41,600.
Simone Day sits for a portrait in Federal Hill on December 22, 2023.
Maryland doctors are loosening sickle cell’s painful grip on patients worldwide
Last month, two groundbreaking gene therapies thought to cure sickle cell were approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and one will be available locally starting in a few weeks.
Three Maryland health systems are once again requiring masks due to rising levels of respiratory illness.
Masks are back: Maryland hospitals, doctor offices require face coverings again
Johns Hopkins hospitals and doctor offices join two other Maryland medical systems in requiring masks again.
Study investigators demonstrate the Gesundheit-II (G-II) machine that captures and analyzes viruses exhaled by flu sufferers.
This all-expense-paid trip to Baltimore comes with a catch: You may get the flu
In a first-of-its-kind-study, Maryland researchers will try to infect people with flu to learn how to stop it.
COVID-19 rapid tests.
Don’t call COVID seasonal, even if a winter spike is the ‘new normal’
COVID-19 is rising for the fifth winter in a row, but infections are year-round.
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