Accompanied by a group of seven doctors and experts, Baltimore city health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen used her podcast Friday to discuss with city residents how the Zika virus affects Maryland, what the government is doing to stop its spread ...

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The University of Maryland School of Medicine launched human trials of an experimental Ebola vaccine in Mali this week.

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Millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information may be at risk as a result of a major breakdown in Internet security revealed earlier this week.

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Officials at the Bowie Training Center said blood samples from a euthanized horse at the Bowie Training Center show the animal was not infected with equine herpesvirus. A hold order placed Saturday on 27 horses in Barn 16 at the ...

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WASHINGTON — Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago. ...

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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter HIV test, allowing Americans to test themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their homes. The OraQuick test detects the presence of HIV in ...

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In two extraordinary recent feats of reportage, the New York Times made vital contributions to the national fund of knowledge concerning the national drone assassination program (May 29) and the cyberattacks on Iran’s nuclear program (June 1). What happened next ...

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LONDON — Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on computer users and their co-workers and filch information from nearby cellphones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday. And suspicion immediately fell on ...

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FREDERICK — The biopharmaceutical company MedImmune is expanding its Frederick manufacturing plant. Frederick city and county officials joined the company in celebrating the official opening Friday of a 337,000-square-foot addition. The new space expands production capacity for products including Synagis, ...

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Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. Think way back to 2006 with me, the dark ages before the iPhone and social media. Remember when a phone was just a phone, and a computer was a computer, and so ...

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