Science and medicine

Baltimore police are now investigating the death of a 2-year-old girl, after medical examiners ruled the cause of death to be fentanyl intoxication, police said Monday.

Ceylon House co-owner Venushki “Venus” Hemachandra said the hope for the Burtonsville lounge is to "help people build community around cannabis.”

Johns Hopkins scientists created a mathematical algorithm, among the nation’s first of its kind, to search for patterns among people who’ve escaped catching COVID-19.

The Lieber Institute for Brian Development is tapping its store of 4,000 human brains to unlock mysteries about why some people get sick and others don’t.

Did you know that hyenas give birth through their half-foot long clitoris, or that squirrels have a bone in their phallus? All this and more at The Maryland Zoo.

Artificial intelligence is about to have a Chesapeake Bay moment, changing environmental science in land use, wetlands preservation, oyster propagation and more. Could it save the bay?

Legislators seem committed to fostering equitable access to the emerging legal market.

The body of a 33-foot-long humpback whale washed up at Assateague National Seashore this week. It’s the 10th dead whale to be found along the coasts of the mid-Atlantic over recent weeks. The whale was likely struck by a boat, a NOAA spokeswoman said.

If passed, the measure would require health care institutions to communicate about debt with consumers and cap the annual interest rate growth for medical debt at 5%.

FDA considers Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions’ naloxone spray for over-the-counter use.

Johns Hopkins scientists and others are still looking at flu strains to see how strong they are and how well they match the vaccine.

The World Health Organization cited stigma in changing the name of monkeypox to mpox.

The therapy won’t harm other parts of the body, unlike traditional chemotherapy drugs.

Wages have increased by about 25% at Maryland hospitals since the start of the pandemic in early 2020

Amoxicillin and other common drugs for ear, sinus and chest infections are in short supply nationally.

State health officials plan to seek a new vendor by year’s end.

At this lab in Baltimore, scientists can play God, manipulating the conditions to get fish to spawn more frequently than they do in the wild.

On any given day this past summer, about 50 children in Maryland found themselves in hospital emergency departments waiting weeks — or even months ― for a spot in a residential treatment center, psychiatric facility, or therapeutic foster home.

Clauser, a 1960 Poly grad, would spend time in his father’s lab at Johns Hopkins.

“These children are often abused or neglected and this is how the state is choosing to raise them,” one attorney said.