ANNAPOLIS — Maryland is on its way to becoming the first state to ban an arsenic additive in chicken feed, and a doubling of the state’s “flush tax” advanced in the state Senate as lawmakers spent a busy Saturday working ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — A man from the San Francisco Bay area has fathered 14 children in the last five years through free sperm donations to childless couples he meets on the Internet — and is now in trouble with the ...

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Mt. Washington tavern hit by fire Rob Frisch, the co-owner of the Mt. Washington Tavern, said Monday that he fully intends to rebuild and reopen the popular dining and bar spot. Once the damaged is assessed, he will know how long ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration of Silver Spring and the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health announced a joint, large-scale, national study of tobacco users to monitor and assess the behavioral and health impacts of new government tobacco regulations. The ...

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Benlysta, a drug to treat lupus, has received approval from European regulators to be marketed in Europe, the drug’s co-makers, Human Genome Sciences Inc. of Rockville, and GlaxoSmithKline, its London-based parent, announced. The European approval came two days after Benlysta, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s health secretary said Monday he opposes the current version of a bill to legalize medical marijuana because the department lacks the resources to oversee the system to dispense it and the medical use of the drug remains ...

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Kimberly C. Betterton has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the firm’s Baltimore office and a member of the public finance, energy and project finance, tax, and transactional finance practices. Her practice focuses on federal tax laws and regulations ...

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Baltimore drug manufacturer Cangene bioPharma does not have to cancel its scheduled plant shutdown to make hundreds of thousands of doses of a colorectal cancer treatment, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Monday afternoon. California-based Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc., which relies ...

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