Science and medicine

Marylanders awoke Friday to widespread reports of a global technology outage disrupting transportation, courts, tolls, some of the state’s hospital systems and local governments.

The limited data suggests COVID-19 is spreading in Maryland during this crazy-hot summer.

The only people on Earth who regularly communicate with James Webb Space Telescope work in a nondescript concrete office building much closer to home — on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore.

The images released today show a distorted spiral galaxy, nicknamed the "Penguin” because it looks like it has a penguin’s beak, eye, and chest or tail, and an elliptical galaxy, nicknamed the "Egg.”

The state finished a yearlong process of determining who should stay on Medicaid, and ended with fewer from a year ago but more than pre-COVID.

University of Maryland Faculty Physicians plans to open a doctors’ office at Mondawmin Mall, aiming to fulfill a community need.

Bloomberg Philanthropies grants Johns Hopkins $1 billion to cover the cost of medical school.

Saint Agnes Hospital was just the latest to face a cyberattack, which are increasingly focused on health care facilities. Workers want more attention to their stress.

Hoau-Yan Wang is accused of fabricating aspects of his research on a drug treatment for Alzheimer’s disease when applying for federal grants, including making false or misleading statements to “enrich himself.”

For all the new providers, relatively few new patients are being served.

“The smoke box” at the Cannabis Science Lab in Baltimore is about as fancy as its nickname, but it’s in one of the most advanced marijuana research labs in the country.

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.