Federal regulators have cited a Baltimore hospital in connection with a January incident in which a mentally ill woman was discharged and left at an open-air bus stop wearing only a flimsy gown and socks.

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The mother of a mentally ill woman who was left outside a Baltimore hospital on a frigid night wearing only a flimsy gown and socks says the 22-year-old daughter was denied care by medical professionals and left to face life-threatening conditions on the street.

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A Maryland company can now begin marketing its device, which could change the way breast cancer is treated, after it received government clearance last month. The Food and Drug Administration granted clearance last month to the GammaPod, a device that ...

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Atlantic General Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center have reached an agreement to allow pre-operative consultations on thoracic surgery to take place via teleconference beginning this month. Potential thoracic surgery patients at Atlantic General in Berlin, Md., will ...

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Two years ago, Katherine Badders’ daughter Susannah died in a car crash. But she lives on in the three lives that were able to continue through the use of her organs, Katherine Badders told a crowd of doctors, nurses and transplant ...

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When the snow falls, roads and governments shut down. Kids get a snow day home from school. And while telecommuting has mostly brought the snow day for workers to an end, at least most of them can avoid driving in ...

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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company officials say they’ve finalized an agreement with the University of Maryland Medical System to use an electric company facility as an alternative landing site for medevac helicopters. BGE officials say they’ll have a test helicopter ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan Wednesday said he is "getting lots of work done" despite a nearly five-day round of chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

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Gov. Larry Hogan wrote Tuesday that he is feeling "really strong" as he enters the final 24 hours of a four-day cycle of chemotherapy at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

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The parents of a Talbot County boy who suffered irreversible heart failure while he was a 15-year-old patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center and the university’s Shore Medical Center in Easton are suing both institutions for medical negligence. ...

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