Science and medicine

A Johns Hopkins University researcher published a study in the journal Science on Thursday outlining a method that uses seismometers to track space debris as it falls to Earth, according to the university.

Perhaps crows capture our imaginations because we have so much in common. Like other members of the corvid family — jays, ravens and magpies — crows possess a singular intelligence.

Maryland has done its best to minimize the impacts of lapsing federal subsidies by providing its own, and early numbers suggest that may help retain enrollees.

The University of Maryland Medical System is steering people to urgent care instead of hospitals. At urgent care centers, this flu season has been a doozy.

Gov. Wes Moore is seeking to bigfoot the new federal vaccine recommendations, which do not universally include flu, COVID and RSV shots.

Dr. Dan Morhaim, a former Democratic state delegate and emergency room doctor, serves on a state commission to reduce Maryland’s emergency room wait times, which are the longest in the nation.

The Trump administration will close NASA’s largest research library, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, this week.

The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but the light from one may dim the other.

Therapy dogs at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital bring hope and comfort to children. The dogs graduated from the Canine Companions service program.

Last flu season was bad, and cases are already on the rise this year. Maryland may not be prepared, as only about a quarter of people are vaccinated.

IBT Bioservices is a contract research organization that supports pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies pushing to develop substance samples into breakthroughs.

In October 2024, Kennedy Krieger Institute doctors diagnosed Carmen Akras with late infantile onset metachromatic leukodystrophy, or MLD. The recessive genetic condition destroys the nervous system and affects one of every 40,000 babies in this country. There is a test, and a new therapy, that could help other children.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed a mandate Tuesday adding metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy to the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel.

Dec. 15 is the deadline to buy health insurance through the state heath exchange. How are people coping with spiking premiums, and what is the state doing to help?

At least two court cases have been filed by residents, and city inspectors have issued five violation notices against the apartment building related to the hot water failure, online records show.

The Maryland Zoo recently revealed the names of two of its new African penguin chicks: Cayenne and Kiwi.

Dr. Michelle Taylor, Baltimore’s health commissioner, said the hepatitis B vaccination effort has been so effective that the city hasn’t had a case of a newborn with the infection in a decade. That record is now under threat.

Emergency room wait times in Maryland hospitals have long exceeded the national average, and a new state commission says the reasons are systemwide and could be complex to fix.

A study led by the University of Maryland has shown that patients with glioblastomas, a typically aggressive and fatal type of brain cancer, live much longer after being treated with a therapy called focused ultrasound.

Executives from the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Gov. Wes Moore announced an expansion in Frederick they say builds on its $50 billion commitment to spend more on drug research and manufacturing in the United States.