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News 07/12/21, 19:43

An Italian lawyer and medical experts are fighting an authorisation to administer Pfizer's experimental mRNA vaccine on children as young as 12-years-old. They are also challenging a mandatory vaccination order for health workers who object to being immunized on safety grounds. Lawyer Renate Holzeisen has filed a lawsuit at the General ...

U.S. 11/27/19, 01:43

The first lady refuses to stop helping Maryland teenagers avoid drug abuse, including those who showed their disapproval during her speech on Nov. 26. Melania Trump is not giving up on children who booed at her while she spoke during the B’More Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness at the University of ...

U.S. 05/21/19, 17:08

The overall health of America's largest estuary declined last year due to the effects of record-breaking precipitation washing more pollutants into the water, but scientists described the difficult year as a dip for the Chesapeake Bay and not a disaster.For an annual report card evaluating the 200-mile-long (322-kilometer-long) bay, researchers ...

Football 05/16/19, 13:58

The chancellor of Maryland's university system said Thursday he will step down next year, after state lawmakers cut funding from the system's budget by an amount equal to his annual salary to express displeasure in the system's handling of a University of Maryland football player's death and how the chancellor ...

U.S. 05/07/19, 17:41

Three members of the University of Maryland Medical System's board resigned, the system announced Tuesday, in the ongoing aftermath of a scandal involving financial arrangements that recently led Baltimore's mayor to resign.The medical system announced that board chairman Stephen Burch is resigning effective July 1. Kevin O'Connor also resigned effective ...

U.S. 03/28/19, 19:23

Baltimore's mayor on Thursday described a lucrative arrangement to sell her self-published children's books to a university-based health care system as a "regrettable mistake" and offered apologies for "any lack of confidence or disappointment" citizens and colleagues may be feeling. At a City Hall news conference, Mayor Catherine Pugh provided five ...

U.S. 02/04/19, 18:52

A Baltimore hospital went on lockdown Monday after a 24-year-old employee was critically wounded by a gunman near an ambulance bay at the University of Maryland Medical Center.Lt. Col. Kevin Jones of the Baltimore Police Department said the shooter was arrested with a loaded pistol a few blocks away from ...