ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland workgroup on medical marijuana will be working on an application process for academic centers that could one day make marijuana available for sick patients. The workgroup met Wednesday in Annapolis to discuss three different groups within ...

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Impulse Monitoring Inc., of Columbia, a provider of intraoperative neurological monitoring, or IONM, services to hospitals during spinal, nerve and brain-related surgeries, said it signed an agreement with The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., to provide comprehensive IONM ...

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The founders of the Evergreen Project believe they have a revolutionary idea that can bring low-cost, high-quality health insurance to Maryland’s uninsured and under-insured. Now they just need to find a way to make it a viable business. Named for ...

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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that medical residents are employees for purposes of collecting Social Security taxes, dealing a blow to the universities that had fought to protect residents’ student status. In its ruling, the high court said the Internal ...

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Anticipating a surge of newly-covered customers swamping general care physicians, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said Thursday that it was opening its health care provider networks to nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. ...

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