Science and medicine

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

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.”

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

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.

The bacteria infecting children right now, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, typically triggers a spike in pneumonia cases in children every 3-7 years. However, like so many other things, the COVID pandemic disrupted the cycle.

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a once-in-80,000-years sight, will pass within 44 million miles of Earth, making it watchable with the naked eye in Maryland and much of the Northern Hemisphere.

A surge of particles from the sun caused the northern lights to be visible in Maryland on Thursday night.

A common drug used to treat diabetes may also help Black women with a type of alopecia, a Johns Hopkins scientist found.

Johns Hopkins Health System violated the Americans with Disabilities Act during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Justice Department said.

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