Science and medicine

If you find yourself with a hospital bill you can't pay, don't panic. You've got options.

An image of an exploding star looks like a shiny Christmas ornament — and could tell researchers a bit more about the origins of life.

Patients, staff and visitors are put at risk from toxic chemicals used at health care facilities, mainly pesticide ingredients, say researchers and advocates working to protect the public from that risk.

Johns Hopkins University is building a Data Science and AI Institute on the Homewood campus, with the goal of positioning Baltimore as the nation’s foremost destination for data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The nonprofit organization Upstream USA will help primary care providers expand reproductive health care services, in hopes of making it easier for patients to get birth control and other contraceptives.

The James Webb Space Telescope, which is operated in Baltimore, offers scientists a new view of the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Samson the bull elephant is proving he’s lucky twice. The 15-year-old African bull elephant at the Maryland Zoo survived a second bout with a strain of the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV6), the zoo said Friday in a statement.

Saint Agnes will become the first private hospital in the Baltimore area to have a nurses’ union.

The second man to get a pig heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center has died after his body showed signs of rejecting the organ.

Laura Ingraham, of Fox News, was doubled over in laughter with a guest of hers in a clip captured on the website formerly known as Twitter. Why? Because President Joe Biden referred to the Webb Space Telescope, but the TV hosts thought he gaffed.

Troy A. LeMaile-Stovall, CEO of TEDCO, believes that the key to Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies is through inclusive entrepreneurial innovation.

The Baltimore region effort is now eligible for nearly $500 million in federal funds over five years that the Greater Baltimore Committee estimates will generate $3.2 billion in economic impact and 52,000 jobs by 2030.

One month ago today, Larry Faucette became the second human ever to receive a pig heart in place of his own at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Using data and imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, which is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus, astronomers have discovered that Jupiter has a jet stream near its equator.

Roland Griffiths, who founded and led the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins, died yesterday. He was a pioneer in bringing psychedelics into mainstream medicine.

Maryland needs air quality standards to curb harmful emissions from heating and air conditioning systems and water heaters, say Panagis Galiatsatos, an associate professor and a physician in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins, and Ruth Ann Norton, president and CEO of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative.

Meghan Marsh has been the executive director since September at Disability Rights Maryland.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 3 people will get jiggy with varicella zoster virus in their lifetimes. If you’ve had chickenpox, there’s a very good chance the virus will pay you a return visit.

Dozens of newsmakers spanning the public, private and nonprofit sectors came together Tuesday for iMPACT Maryland, The Baltimore Banner’s new event for thought leaders to swap insights and discuss innovative ideas for the state’s future.

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope were able to capture an “ethereal” view of a region inside a nearby dwarf galaxy where stars are forming.