Health

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

Emergency room wait times in Maryland hospitals have long exceeded the national average, and a new state commission says the reasons are systemwide and could be complex to fix.

A study led by the University of Maryland has shown that patients with glioblastomas, a typically aggressive and fatal type of brain cancer, live much longer after being treated with a therapy called focused ultrasound.

A Bloomberg study found a new link between housing and health care.

Love & Cornbread, the nonprofit is doubling efforts in a new era of food insecurity in Baltimore City.

Pot use among young adults reached historic levels in recent years, according to a federally supported survey.

The Howard County Library Savage Branch location closed abruptly last week because of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The White House is circulating a proposal that would extend subsidies to help consumers pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as millions of Americans face spiking health care costs when the current tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year.

Speech language pathologists are mostly wary of being replaced by AI while still being drawn in by the chance to cut down on workloads.

Executives from the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Gov. Wes Moore announced an expansion in Frederick they say builds on its $50 billion commitment to spend more on drug research and manufacturing in the United States.

A man between 30-40 years old died from a cold-related illness in Frederick County, marking the first such death in Maryland this winter season.

Another person survived after 30 minutes it he cold Inner Harbor after a crash. Doctors say it's human physiology.

A Maryland law aimed at keeping medical debt from ruining people’s creditworthiness went into effect Oct. 1, and 27 days later the Trump administration said the state and 14 others were violating federal law.

The public nuisance question has long been expected to end up before Maryland’s Supreme Court.

Authorities carried out pre-dawn raids and made arrests in the city Wednesday as part of a continuing investigation, sources familiar with the matter said.

Not everything in Congress is paralyzed. There’s a quiet push to open space at Walter Reed National Medical Center and other DOD hospitals to veterans.

Scientists are studying how LSD’s potent mind-altering properties could help disrupt troubled patterns of thinking, such as constant worrying or hopeless thoughts, by rewiring the human brain.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is over. This survivor wants you to get a mammogram anyway.

There are a lot of cases of hand, foot and mouth disease in Maryland and around the country right now, but officials says it’s rarely dangerous.

Open enrollment on Maryland's health exchange begins Saturday, with consumers facing big premium increases as federal subsidies lapse and Congress remains at an impasse.