After acquiring the Timonium-based managed-care organization Riverside Health this year, the University of Maryland Medical System will be offering new, enhanced health plans for people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. For some members, the plans will offer extra benefits such ...

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Sociologists at the University of Maryland, College Park have found that while Americans have generally become more accepting of pornography over the past decades, men and women have grown more divided on the issue. A study led by Ph.D student ...

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Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels is one of four winners of the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s 2015 Academic Leadership Award, an honor that comes with a $500,000 grant to each winner’s institution. Daniels, president since 2009, was ...

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Ted’s Montana Grill will open its first restaurant in Maryland on Oct. 5 at the Downtown Crown shopping center in Gaithersburg. The new restaurant will be the third in the D.C. area, the 46th location overall. The new location will ...

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Replacing salt with herbs and spices in cooking can reduce sodium intake by 1,000 mg a day, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, San Diego. In a 20-week study that was funded by ...

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Frostburg State University’s Fall 2015 enrollment is the highest in the institution’s 117-year history, with a total of 5,756 students. That’s a 2 percent increase over the fall 2014 total. Undergraduate enrollment grew by 46 students, graduate enrollment grew by ...

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Sports Authority and Under Armour Connected Fitness apps have teamed up to offer loyalty points based on users’ workouts. Until Oct. 16, MapMyFitness users can earn points in Sports Authority’s loyalty program, called The League, based on their workouts. Those ...

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Volkswagen AG, the world’s top-selling carmaker, has admitted that some 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide were fitted with software at the center of a U.S. emissions scandal. The company has acknowledged that it intentionally installed software programmed to switch ...

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Reuters has ranked the 100 most innovative universities from across the globe, a list that includes Johns Hopkins University and the University System of Maryland as a whole. Each university was judged on ten criteria — including the volume of patent ...

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A grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers from the Johns Hopkins University to test a drug they hope will slow or prevent the onset of Azlheimer’s. The five-year, $7.5 million grant will fund a clinical trial ...

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