NEW YORK — Small-business owners worried about the spread of measles may want to be sure their staffers have been vaccinated, but before issuing any orders, they should speak with a labor law attorney or human resources consultant. An employer ...

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More cases of a respiratory virus have been confirmed at the University of Maryland, College Park, where a freshman died of complications from the virus last month.

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A leading AIDS researcher was picked Wednesday to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal government's top public health agency.

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Rockville-based Synthetic Biologics Inc. received a federal research contract worth more than a half-million to support its research on a treatment designed to protect the gut microbiome from the unintended effects of some antibiotics. The contract for $521,014 from the Centers for ...

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Baltimore has been awarded two grants totaling $20 million to reduce HIV infection among men who have sex with men and transgender populations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the grants Thursday. The CDC said in a news ...

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Federal agents at U.S. airports are watching travelers from Africa for flu-like symptoms that could be tied to the recent Ebola outbreak, as delegations from some 50 countries arrive in the nation's capital for a leadership summit this week.

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A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.

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ANNAPOLIS — The nation’s first statewide ban on the sale of crib bumper pads is taking effect in Maryland this week, the state’s health department said Thursday. The ban begins Friday and was adopted in November after 18 months of ...

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PITTSBURGH — In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents sometimes mislead the public, too. Critics of fracking often raise alarms about groundwater pollution, air pollution, ...

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ATLANTA — Getting an AIDS test at the drugstore could become as common as a flu shot or blood pressure check, if a new pilot program takes off. The $1.2 million program will offer the free rapid HIV tests at ...

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