Science and medicine

A presidential debate watch party and a free musical event featuring women-led groups are among the things to do in Howard County for the last week of June 2024.

Emergent BioSolutions, known for botching millions of doses of COVID vaccine, will exit Baltimore entirely with sale of another plant.

City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.

Many patients don’t even know about the annual screening, which can save lives when it catches the disease early.

Continued harm-reduction efforts and improved prevention strategies are needed to address Baltimore's drug overdose crisis, professors with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.

There is a move afoot to help expand and pay for a what been a largely hidden workforce in Maryland of community health workers, who help marginalized people get health care and other services though they often go without.

Tony Foreman, co-founder of one of Baltimore’s biggest and most respected restaurant empires, was saved by a heart and kidney transplant surgery so tricky John Hopkins couldn’t do it.

Construction hasn't started, funding appears uncertain and it'll be at least another two years before students enroll.

Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland and their families will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.

Maryland voters have every reason to be skeptical about Larry Hogan’s announcement at the start of his 2024 general election campaign for the U.S. Senate that he now favors abortion rights, says a former Maryland official who compares the announcement to President George H.W. Bush's “no new taxes” pledge.

The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago.

Rethinking approaches to health care and adopting a new nursing initiative would help alleviate long emergency care wait times that put Marylanders at risk, leaders of health care and nursing programs at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State universities say.

Since 1995, an oyster reef has existed at Fort Carroll, an uninhabited island in the Patapsco River near the Key Bridge.

The timing isn't certain, but there is a possibility of seeing the brilliant northern lights much further south than normal this weekend.

The Pentagon has awarded a university lab $12 billion over past decade. Pro-Palestinian protesters want that to end.

Refunds are coming — as much as eight years after the first patients paid their bills.

The company, which was supposed to be a key player in the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, will close its Baltimore-Bayview Drug Substance manufacturing facility and its Rockville Drug Product facility.

A crane operator found unconscious and unresponsive hundreds of feet in the air at a construction site at the Baltimore Peninsula has died.

After the U.S. logged its first cases of malaria in decades, Johns Hopkins mosquito research takes on new urgency.

Two Maryland teams — from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — and a team from the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Airbus Netherlands B.V., each worked on one of the three instruments on the satellite.