Maryland Daily Record Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news

WASHINGTON - All prescription sleeping pills may sometimes cause sleep-driving, federal health officials warned Wednesday, almost a year after the bizarre side effect first made headlines when Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car after taking Ambien.

Most of the 135,000 uninsured children in Maryland come from working families and could benefit from a 10-year-old federal health care access program that expires this year, according to a new study advocating for the program

ANNAPOLIS - Maryland's House is poised to raise the state tobacco tax $1 a pack to pay for better health care for the poor - but the proposal's chances remain slim in the state Senate.

TRENTON, N.J. — Merck & Co.'s painkiller Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker's heart attack, a jury in Atlantic City ruled Monday, reversing the verdict in the man's first trial and hitting Merck with a total of $47.5 million in damages.

NEW YORK - Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. on Monday agreed to buy Nevada-based health care services provider Sierra Health Services Inc. for about $2.6 billion.

TRENTON, N.J. - Merck & Co.'s painkiller Vioxx contributed to the heart attack of an Idaho postal worker, a state jury in Atlantic City ruled Monday. The jury awarded Frederick 'Mike' Humeston and his wife $20 million in compensatory damages.

The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by elderly Marylanders who claim they were unjustly denied Medicaid-funded services because a state regulation applies stricter standards than federal or state law.

Jeannie Alvestad knows a thing or two about taking care of people at hospitals.

ANNAPOLIS - Citing a growing shortage of pharmacists, the Maryland Higher Education Commission Thursday unanimously approved the College of Notre Dame of Maryland