Science and medicine

After failing to gain traction with adults, an inhaled insulin is marketed to needle-averse kids with diabetes.

A rural hospital in Cecil County plans to stop delivering babies. The closure of its Family Birth Center poses a challenge to pregnant residents and shows the limits of the state’s hospital regulatory system.

Maryland insurance companies are proposing significant increases in rates for ACA plans for a second year in a row.

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.

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 Carroll County woman’s family is working to bring her back to Maryland from Panama after a medical emergency landed her in the hospital.

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.

NASA introduced the Artemis III mission crew members, and some of them spent time in Maryland.

Experts and consumer groups are cheering the move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve bemotrizinol, also known as BEMT, which potentially could be a safer and more effective protection against the damaging rays of the sun. A Maryland pharmacy expert talks about the new ingredient.

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

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.

Liam O’Donoghue lost his arm in a Cockeysville car crash that killed two of his friends. Friends, family, doctors and others are rallying around him.

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.

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

Women at the Baltimore teaching hospital say pharmacist Matthew Bathula secretly accessed intimate photos, emails and camera feeds from their online accounts.

Spanish nationals were the first to leave the MV Hondius, which remains anchored off Tenerife.

Across the country, emergency department visits for tick bites are up more than 25% from last year, according to federal data. Maryland and other northeastern states are looking like ground zero.