Your weekly dose of health news, tips and events for Maryland.
Monday, Apr 16 For viewers, the video was a troubling example of "patient dumping." For Rebecca Hall's mother, however, it escalated an emergency. |
| In a medical first, a French surgeon says he has performed a second face transplant on the same patient. |
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| A British drugmaker is seeking permission to use the drug to treat two rare forms of epilepsy. The FDA is expected to make a final decision by June. |
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| State poison officials said Monday that three more people have been hospitalized for extreme bleeding after using synthetic marijuana. |
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| Hospital emergency rooms in Maryland are being overwhelmed by a big jump in patients with mental health and substance-use issues. |
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| Baltimore City officials will announce a citywide initiative Monday to curb the rate of number of in the city, which are 20 percent higher than the rest of the state. |
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| Where do you fall on the spectrum of “definite morning type" to “definite evening type”? It might be a clue about your mortality. |
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| Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen is the latest to warn about the dangers of synthetic marijuana after four people in the state this month were hospitalized for extreme bleeding after taking the drugs. |
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