The WHO chief honored the late Henrietta Lacks, a Baltimore woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge during the 1950s and ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs.

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A Baltimore personal injury law firm that helped reach a $190 million settlement with Johns Hopkins Hospital over a gynecologist accused of secretly recording his patients has helped secure another multimillion-dollar settlement against a university health care facility more than ...

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Medical personnel at Johns Hopkins Hospital released a newborn to her parents four years ago without telling them of a potentially cancerous abnormality discovered in the girl’s adrenal gland, the parents allege in a wrongful-death lawsuit they filed this week ...

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A female surgeon and former faculty member at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging she faced “persistent and corrosive gender bias” during her employment that culminated in her termination this year. Kimberley Eden Steele came ...

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Johns Hopkins Hospital has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board that will allow the hospital’s nurses to pursue unionization if they want. Under the agreement, the hospital will post signs that say it will not prohibit nurses ...

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A group of nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital say the facility has staffing problems, lacks critical supplies and has shoddy equipment.

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A healthy dose of job growth has long been seen as a likely cure for poverty. But new research suggests that poor Americans are frequently left behind even when their cities or communities benefit from hiring booms. When such cities ...

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Johns Hopkins Hospital finished third again on the U.S. News & World Report ranking of U.S. hospitals.

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A group of registered nurses has accused Johns Hopkins Hospital of impeding their efforts to form a union.

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Breaking with tradition, first-year residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Medical Training Program will no longer wear a short white coat. The Baltimore Sun reports the short white coat was meant to symbolize that the residents were not true physicians until ...

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