ANNAPOLIS — Leading Maryland Democrats are supporting legislation for funding Planned Parenthood because of concerns that the federal government will cut family planning funds. House Speaker Michael Busch joined other lawmakers Wednesday to express support for continued family planning services ...

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  The U.S. government may soon lean on someone new to help lower health care costs: you. The idea is that when your money is on the line — and not the insurance company’s — you’ll look for the best ...

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WASHINGTON — Modern medicine in the Washington area reverted to 1960s-era paper systems when one of the largest hospital chains was crippled by a virus that shuttered its computers for patients and medical staff. The FBI said it was investigating ...

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The University of Maryland, Baltimore has invested $100,000 in a Baltimore company called Breethe, Inc. to help market a wearable, artificial lung system developed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The investment was made through UM Ventures, a partnership between UMB and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County that allows the schools to commercialize technology developed by their students and faculty. Dr. Bartley P. Griffith, executive director of the medical school's Program in Lung Healing, developed the core technology behind the portable blood pump oxygenator and founded Breethe to commercialize the product in 2014.

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The owner of Alpha Diagnostics, already facing charges for running a scheme to defraud Medicare, now faces life in prison after four patients died because their X-rays were not reviewed by a qualified radiologist, federal prosecutors announced Friday. A superseding indictment against Rafael Chikvashvili, 67, of Baltimore, alleges the X-rays were instead reviewed by employees of the mobile diagnostic services company who failed to detect "congestive heart failure, pneumonia, and a large pelvic mass revealed in the images."

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A $50 million federal grant will help a University of Maryland School of Medicine team fight the spread of AIDS in Zambia. The five-year grant will go to the university’s Institute of Human Virology, which will work with the U.S. ...

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Saint Agnes Hospital will soon become the latest health system in the Baltimore area to create a one-stop-shopping primary care center.

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Carroll Hospital Center last week wrapped up plans to become a subsidiary of LifeBridge Health, the latest in a series of hospital affiliations and consolidations in Maryland.

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A federal judge has allowed an insurance policyholder to proceed with a fraud claim against its insurance company as part of a six-year legal battle that has largely been kept from public view.

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My story on how Maryland’s vaccine exemption policy for schoolchildren compares to policies in other states raises another question: how do immunization policies apply to working adults?

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