Health

Johns Hopkins is investing heavily in AI research and medicine, including training a robot to help in the operating room.

Rep. Jamie Raskin seeks to stop the Trump administration from putting political appointees in charge of federal health grants.

Health advisories were issued for Bayside Beach, Upper Magothy Beach and Carrollton Manor after routine water quality testing showed elevated levels of enterococci bacteria that are unsafe for water contact.

Two projects for public water access in Anne Arundel were quickly amended out of next year’s budget. Advocates described feeling blindsided, and some officials decried the move as potentially motivated by politics.

CareFirst filed a $51 million lawsuit against a pair of brothers for what the company called “health insurance fraud conspiracy of breathtaking scale and audacity.”

A University of Maryland center that develops vaccines is changing focus under Trump while Ebola and other pathogens loom.

The family foundation of Lynda Carter, who portrayed Wonder Woman in the 1970s TV series, gifted Johns Hopkins’ urology center $10 million.

The Maryland Department of Health is warning consumers that all of Clover Hill Dairy’s cheeses are being recalled after possible listeria contamination.

The temperatures this summer could put you at risk of heat exhaustion, heat stroke or heat cramps. Health experts want Maryland residents to know the signs ahead of time.

The Howard County Office on Aging and Independence decided to end Rock Steady Boxing classes with little notice or reason. Then residents stepped in.

Baltimore City officials are warning residents about rabid foxes found in Roland Park.

Clover Hill Dairy issued a voluntary recall of its ricotta products over a possible listeria contamination.

The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday.

Since federal health officials removed the “black box” warning on hormone replacement therapy, doctors and women’s advocates have been cautiously optimistic it will mean better access to the menopause treatment generally for more women, especially Black women.

An older man died in Calvert County this month due to the heat, Maryland Department of Health officials said, the first heat-related death in the state this year.

DHS is mandating that flights from certain African countries be routed through Washington Dulles International Airport.

Health authorities say the current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare variant of the Ebola disease that has no approved therapeutics or vaccines.

What it’s like inside a special biocontainment unit that Johns Hopkins Hospital is preparing for potential hantavirus patients.

Marty Makary, a former Johns Hopkins surgeon, is resigning as President Donald Trump’s head of the Food and Drug Administration.

Officials from the Maryland Department of Health say the residents briefly shared a plane with an infected cruise ship passenger.