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Children’s medicine shortage hits as flu season starts fast
Caring for sick children has become extra stressful for many U.S. parents recently due to shortages of Children’s Tylenol and other medicines.
To fight high drug prices and shortages, groups are making their own
U.S. hospital groups, startups and nonprofits have started making their own medicines in a bid to combat stubbornly high prices and persistent shortages of drugs with little competition.
UMMS donates $4.6M in COVID-19 equipment, supplies to southeast Asia
The University of Maryland Medical System is donating more than 200 pallets of lifesaving COVID-19 equipment and supplies valued at more than $4.6 million to countries in southeast Asia, including India and Sri Lanka.
Maryland medical professionals putting renewed emphasis on stroke prevention
A study published six months ago in the American Heart Association journal Stroke found that stroke rates, while declining generally, are on the rise among adults younger than 45.
Guatemalans infected with STDs file $1B lawsuit against Hopkins, others
More than 700 Guatemalans unknowingly infected with sexually transmitted diseases more than 60 years ago as part of U.S. government experiments have filed suit.
Rising price of heroin-overdose antidote worries advocates
Just as officials across the country are agreeing that it makes sense to hand out an easy-to-administer heroin-overdose antidote to police, families of addicts and drug users themselves, those buying it face a new obstacle. The price of one popular form has doubled in the past year.
Joseph A. Schwartz, III: Behind the workers’ compensation announcement
The Maryland General Assembly’s Workers’ Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight Committee announced on Feb. 3 that there would not be legislation for the next two years (2015, 2016 legislative sessions) relating to physician dispensing of medicines to workers’ compensation patients.
Army unit from Md. packing up Ebola mobile labs in Liberia
A U.S. military medical unit from Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is packing up four mobile Ebola testing laboratories in Liberia after a nearly four-month deployment.
FDA drug approvals reached 18-year high in 2014
The Food and Drug Administration approved 41 first-of-a-kind drugs in 2014, including a record number of medicines for rare diseases, pushing the agency's annual tally of drug approvals to its highest level in 18 years.
42.9 million Americans have unpaid medical bills
Nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers with credit records — 42.9 million people — have unpaid medical debts, according to a new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Glaxo’s Ebola vaccine performs well in study
GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Ebola vaccine produced responses from the immune system and didn’t raise safety concerns in a study with 20 healthy adults, completing an initial step toward making it widely available.
U-Md. Ebola vaccine study progresses
The University of Maryland School of Medicine says it has administered an experimental Ebola vaccine to 20 volunteers in Baltimore.
