Science and medicine

Not all researchers agree the sanctuary model is the best scenario for dolphins in captivity.

Eileen Harlin is one of just a dozen living people to donate both a liver and a kidney to save someone else's life.

The little-known housing program supports about 900 households statewide and is now set to expand.

On Monday, Exact Sciences notified state regulators of the layoffs and closure of what began as Thrive Earlier Detection Corp.

Ensuring access to mental health care to many in the Baltimore community who need it means delivering care that meets people where they are socially, culturally and financially, says Jessica Smith, a mental health advocate and social entrepreneur.

A ranger with the Maryland Park Service found the ship timber, still showing markings of the shipwright who built her, during a daily patrol on December 22. A strong coastal storm delivered its gift practically to the ranger’s doorstep.

Tuesday’s rainstorms swept unusual puffin-like seabirds into the mid-Atlantic region.

In a first-of-its-kind-study, Maryland researchers will try to infect people with flu to learn how to stop it.

Many in Baltimore's LGBTQ community say they're giving up alcohol or have noticed that members are drinking less at gay bars. Some say the move toward sobriety followed the end of the pandemic, when many Americans turned to drinking for relief.

Steve Bisciotti is backing a Baltimore-based nonprofit called Blackbird that will help shepherd health care discoveries from local university labs into local startup companies.

If you find yourself with a hospital bill you can't pay, don't panic. You've got options.

An image of an exploding star looks like a shiny Christmas ornament — and could tell researchers a bit more about the origins of life.

Patients, staff and visitors are put at risk from toxic chemicals used at health care facilities, mainly pesticide ingredients, say researchers and advocates working to protect the public from that risk.

Johns Hopkins University is building a Data Science and AI Institute on the Homewood campus, with the goal of positioning Baltimore as the nation’s foremost destination for data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The nonprofit organization Upstream USA will help primary care providers expand reproductive health care services, in hopes of making it easier for patients to get birth control and other contraceptives.

The James Webb Space Telescope, which is operated in Baltimore, offers scientists a new view of the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Samson the bull elephant is proving he’s lucky twice. The 15-year-old African bull elephant at the Maryland Zoo survived a second bout with a strain of the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV6), the zoo said Friday in a statement.

Saint Agnes will become the first private hospital in the Baltimore area to have a nurses’ union.

The second man to get a pig heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center has died after his body showed signs of rejecting the organ.

Laura Ingraham, of Fox News, was doubled over in laughter with a guest of hers in a clip captured on the website formerly known as Twitter. Why? Because President Joe Biden referred to the Webb Space Telescope, but the TV hosts thought he gaffed.