Science and medicine

Tonya Webb, an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, gravitated to cancer research after several family members battled the disease. Now she inspires future cancer fighters.

As the nation marks Disability Pride Month, Gregory Miller, president and chief executive officer of Penn-Mar Human Services, talks about his work on behalf of people with disabilities.

A proposed federal ban on menthol cigarettes has raised concerns among some law enforcement officials and civil rights advocates that it could lead to problematic police encounters, particularly with Black smokers, says Diane Goldstein, a retired police lieutenant who is executive director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership.

American women and girls will be able to buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops.

Officials announced this week that the recovery of the fossil and others nearby elevate the park’s classification to a bone bed, the first discovered in Maryland since 1887.

The James Webb Space Telescope has been operational for a year, transforming the way scientists understand the universe. It is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

The northern lights will not be visible in Maryland this week. Sorry if we got your hopes up.

The pandemic and the national racial reckoning led to a surge in patients and clients for Black therapists. Some of those therapists are still processing the experiences themselves.

Scientists say seagrass acreage is expanding and the bay's toxic "dead zone" could shrink by as much as a third this year.

As Maryland joins 22 other states and the District of Columbia in legalizing recreational adult use of the drug, state leaders also considered the debate about what to call a drug that has carried a racist stigma.

A liver transplant saved the life of Morris Murray. Now he wants others living with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis to know that they, too, can receive and donate organs.

Age-related macular degeneration is incurable, but Marylanders are getting better treatment for it now, physicians say.

Marylanders were among those who traveled to Washington, D.C., on Saturday for rallies on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe. v. Wade, which had protected a woman's right to an abortion for a half-century.

Reducing Maryland’s high rate of opioid overdose deaths will require improved approaches by the state’s health care providers, says Dr. Enrique Oviedo, a psychiatrist who serves as medical director of MATClinics.

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided a possible answer as to why we can see so much of the universe, and why the light from far away galaxies is not blocked by clouds of gas.

Nonprofit hospitals can put into place a stopgap measure to help cover care for people ineligible for health insurance, such as those without documentation, say people familiar with a Johns Hopkins program that serves uninsured East Baltimore residents.

Three University of Maryland Medical Center clinicians say they are committed to ensuring access to abortion as health care in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.

Parents, schools and health care providers are vital in helping teens through today’s unprecedented mental health challenges, says Dr. Harsh K. Trivedi, president and chief executive officer of Sheppard Pratt.

Eighteen years ago, Camille Hammond’s mother, Tinina Cade, gave her the ultimate gift and carried her triplets 32 weeks to birth. She was 55 at the time.

New images offer the first look at a complex ring system of inner belts that surround a young, nearby star.