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July 3, 2025

Designed as a hub for integrated rural health services, the regional medical center will serve as an anchor for a sustainable model of care while also serving as an economic engine for the Mid-Shore. UM SRH and UMMS are partnering with the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, as well as with other ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore clinical professional schools.

July 3, 2025

“There’s a whole different set” of health risk factors for older drinkers, said Paul Sacco, a professor of social work at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore who studies substance use and aging. People might not realize that the drinks they used to tolerate well are now affecting their brains and bodies differently, he said.

July 3, 2025

“Historically, prurigo nodularis (PN) has been one of the most underrecognized and undertreated diseases in dermatology,” Shawn G. Kwatra, MD, the Joseph W. Burnett endowed professor and chair of dermatology at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine and lead investigator of this study, told Healio. “Yet, in a devastating way, it is one of the most profoundly life-altering diseases for patients.”

July 2, 2025

The recent changes in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) have raised significant concerns among health care professionals about the future of vaccine recommendations and public health strategies. 

July 2, 2025

Houses of worship need social enterprise now more than ever.

Churches, synagogues and other houses of worship are facing a dire situation. Up to 100,000 U.S. houses of worship may close over the next decade.  The percentage of Americans belonging to a faith institution has plummeted from 70% to 47% over one generation with no sign of abating.

July 1, 2025

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender, in partnership with the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law, has launched a second Innocence Project Clinic.

June 30, 2025

Professor Kathi Hoke with the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s Francis King Carey School of Law said the June 1 deadline gives state leaders a more secure picture of the money at play.

June 30, 2025

“I worked with a young physician who lost her life to cancer. It’s something unique about us, that even when we’re married, or educated, still the outcomes look the same,” said Dr. Shana Ntiri, associate professor for Family and Community Medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore.

June 30, 2025

More than 3,800 people filed lawsuits under Maryland’s Child Victims Act in the two months before new limits on monetary damages took effect in June, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis of court records.

June 29, 2025

That overload of drugs, known as polypharmacy, can be dangerous at any age but it’s particularly hazardous for elderly people, who often have multiple health conditions and whose bodies may not handle meds the same way they did when they were younger, said Nicole Brandt.

June 29, 2025

Just because one person doesn’t see value in who we are, that value is still there, and others may very well feel that having us around is a privilege and an enriching experience for them.

This is a reminder that our individual worth survives beyond the end of any relationship.

June 27, 2025

While the decision is a clear win for the Trump administration, “it could come back to haunt the conservatives,” said Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç. “A future Democratic president will have more leeway to do things that are legally questionable,” he said.

June 27, 2025

"Any time there are layoffs, it's very sad," said Daniel Mullins, executive director of the PATIENTS Program at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy. "Five of our staff will no longer have jobs because of the loss in funding."

June 27, 2025

The exhibition was the culmination of a community-engaged research study conducted by the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law’s Erin Levitas Initiative for Sexual Violence Prevention,

June 26, 2025

Professor Mark Graber from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Law School says it was a novel order, in response to a novel circumstance: "The Trump administration was attempting to seize people and get them out of jurisdictions and out of the United States before there could be any judicial hearing on whether in fact they were subject to deportation."

June 26, 2025

“I think having a better method is certainly good,” said Jarrell, UMB’s president. “We have to be dynamic in this situation.”

June 24, 2025

Brooke Bourne, a Western High School senior, watched two men argue on a bus and then one stab the other. She broke down into tears when she got home. She sometimes has flashbacks about that day, she said, but tries to tamp down the image so it won’t control her thoughts.

That psychological trauma can have long-term consequences, said Nadine Finigan-Carr, executive director of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Baltimore Center for Violence Prevention.

June 24, 2025

Simeon Taylor, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and director of the Institutional Research Training Program in Diabetes & Obesity at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, Baltimore, told Medscape Medical News that the efficacy data were “amazing."

June 24, 2025

"We've done a good bit of work, but this reminds us that we still have work to do," executive director of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Baltimore's Center for Violence Prevention Nadine Finigan-Carr said.

June 23, 2025

In May, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed the Chesapeake Bay Legacy Act (HB 506), a new law that aims to address Chesapeake Bay health through initiatives that enhance restoration activities and engage Maryland farm communities.
The Act makes several significant changes across agricultural sectors in Maryland with a stated purpose to achieve WIP goals, state Climate Pollution Reduction Plan goals, and align other environmental goals while enhancing farm profitability. 

June 23, 2025

Deanna Tran, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, associate professor of the department of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy, discusses the potential implications of recent changes in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and its impact on vaccine recommendations and health care practices. 

June 23, 2025

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, highlights the critical role pharmacists play in navigating vaccine recommendations and supporting patient understanding.

June 23, 2025

Daniel Mullins, at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy, had a grant canceled for a “Health Equity Research Hub,” which examined how to encourage greater participation in health-related research. Mullins said the loss of the grant affected five positions, and the individuals will be removed from the university due to a lack of funding. He added that the termination stated that the grant was DEI-related, which he disputes.

June 23, 2025

When a patient dies, it can be disorienting for medical trainees, Raya Kheirbek, MD, MPH, said in an email. A patient death can feel like a failure even when it isn’t, said Kheirbek, chief of the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine in Baltimore. A trainee can feel fear, helplessness, and even shame.

June 20, 2025

In general, it’s rare for people younger than 60 to be diagnosed with cancer; the average age of diagnosis is 67. The average age for someone diagnosed with breast cancer is 63. For prostate cancer, it’s 68. For lung cancer, it’s 71. But there’s one type of cancer that’s increasingly being diagnosed in people 45 and younger.

June 16, 2025

“In most cases, students who would normally not have to borrow money, would have to borrow money in order to cover their tuition,” said Patricia Scott, executive director of financial aid for the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore.

June 15, 2025

"The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç pharmacy school created the cannabis master’s program and I think that’s been a huge piece. It draws people internationally and they give such a depth of knowledge on this category. I think it’s really instrumental and having a major institution like that really helps to validate the industry.”

June 12, 2025

In an effort to increase physician density in these rural areas, the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM) last year launched its Rural-MD Scholars program, to train and place up to 10 students a year in Eastern Shore healthcare practices.

June 11, 2025

Dr. Wilbur Chen, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, served until last June on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which guides federal decisions on the rollout of vaccinations and the people who should receive them.

June 11, 2025

“People need to be aware of what aggravates their asthma and listen to their body,” says Kathryn Robinett, M.D., a pulmonologist at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine.

June 10, 2025

Q: I never know which type of over-the-counter pain medication to use for different types of pain, like headaches, sprained ankles or sore muscles. Which works best for these unique situations?

June 10, 2025

June is men's health month which means it's the perfect time to raise awareness for men's health issues. Men need to schedule health screenings and check in with your primary care physicians regularly and this morning. Dr. Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, director of urologic, oncology and robotic surgery at ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine joined us on Fox 45 Morning News to discuss why these screenings are so important.

June 9, 2025

From the middle of 2013 to the end of last year, more than 1,300 reports of alleged child sex trafficking were screened by Maryland Child Protective Services. Last week hundreds of people working to stop child trafficking gathered in Towson to raise awareness and focus on partnerships to protect vulnerable kids.

June 9, 2025

The public’s impression is that lots of kids from troubled homes basically grow up in foster care, says Dr. Richard Barth, professor, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work. “But they really don’t. They come in, they go home, they go to live with relatives, some get adopted, some run away, some go into guardianships.’’

June 6, 2025

A self-described introvert with a career at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, Molly has been left to pick up the pieces. So when the messages from real estate agents and investors started trickling in, a renewed sense of anger came with them.

June 6, 2025

The surgeon at the center of this effort for more than 25 years, Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, turns 74 on Saturday — and is still driven to pull 100-hour weeks caring for the most dire patients.

June 5, 2025

The latest generation of generative artificial intelligence can ace most law school final exams, a new study has found. OpenAI’s newest model, called o3, earned grades ranging from A+ to B on eight spring finals given by faculty at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law, researchers found in a new paper published on SSRN

June 4, 2025

Anna can't exactly pinpoint when her relationship with her sister-in-law started to sour. Rather, it was a slow unraveling.

June 3, 2025

During a single week in April 2023, the area around Florida’s Washington Oaks Gardens State Park was abuzz. A bobcat passed by, perhaps stalking the eastern gray squirrels. An eastern diamondback rattlesnake slithered through the undergrowth. The spaces among the grand oaks hummed with wildlife—a big brown bat, mosquitoes, and an osprey—and people with African, European, and Asian ancestors.

May 30, 2025

“The order is now more clearly focused on Maryland,” Mark Graber, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Law, wrote in an email. “This means the order still stands if the Supreme Court decides that federal district courts cannot issue national injunctions. The judge is covering his bases.”

May 30, 2025

Two surgeons, Dr. Mohamed A.M. Labib, M.D., CM, neurosurgeon and assistant professor of neurosurgery at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center (UMMC) and Andrea M. Hebert, M.D., MPH, head and neck surgeon and an associate professor of otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery at ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine removed a spine tumor through a patient’s eye socket in what appears to be the first time this particular approach was used to access the cervical spine.  

May 30, 2025

Geoffrey L. Greif and Kathleen Holtz Deal, researchers at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work, have found that couples who maintain friendships with other couples are more attracted to each other and have stronger relationships.

May 30, 2025

“Men do not feel comfortable pursuing other men for friendships. … They don’t like for other men to come across as too needy,” he continued. “Whether or not it will have universal appeal to all men, I doubt it. But if you move the needle 5 or 10% for men who see the movie and say, ‘You know what, this helps me understand my friendships a little better.’ … I think that can have a benefit.”

May 29, 2025

I have been fortunate to work with several small assisted living facilities that have experienced less direct care staff attrition compared with many post-acute and long-term care communities. Recently, one of the assisted living communities hired a new facility director, registered nurse, and several nursing assistants to replace staff who had retired or moved on to other opportunities.

May 28, 2025

The development project at the North Bethesda Metro station will be anchored by the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s new Institute for Health Computing—an innovative partnership between the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, College Park, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Baltimore, and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical System.

May 27, 2025

When you have various aches and pains, it can be challenging to decide which over-the-counter pain reliever is best matched for your affliction — Advil, Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin?

The choice, experts say, really comes down to just two classes of medication: acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (or NSAIDs).

May 27, 2025

Your eyes and brain aren’t just close together—they’re connected.

Simply put, your retina and optic nerve are extensions of your central nervous system, says Dr. Meenal Agarwal, an Ontario-based optometrist and host of the Uncover Your Eyes podcast. “Anything that’s happening in the eye or the brain—and vice versa—affects each other,” she explains. “I like to treat it as one entity.”

May 27, 2025

“When you look at medicine computation is finally making its way into medicine,” says Jarrell, “It used to be it was all here in a doctor’s head. Now it’s in computers. It’ll take the whole AI revolution, self-driving cars to the area of, I’m not going to say self-driving health, but it will guide our health care decisions immensely.”

May 27, 2025

“Older Black men have been disproportionately affected by overdose deaths in Baltimore City since around 2015,” said Jay Unick, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç. “Their rising death rates went largely unnoticed for too long.”

May 27, 2025

For millions of us, coffee plays a vital role in the morning routine. Not only does its allure coax us out of bed, it gets us up and moving—probably to the bathroom.

May 27, 2025

“We plan to fill this building at least as much as we can with a lot of people who are looking at how you use data and artificial intelligence and computing to improve health care,” Jarrell said.

May 24, 2025

If you buy goods at a store, you get a receipt telling you the amount of sales tax you pay. Work at a job, and your pay stub reports how much was deducted for payroll taxes. The amount you pay in income taxes is likewise no secret from you.

May 22, 2025

However, the article’s authors, Sarah Murthi, MD and Amitabh Varshney clearly establish that the technology is still in relatively early stages. Considering Augmented Reality is in such early phases, there are a number of challenges that will need to be overcome to expand the technology’s use across the medical community.

May 22, 2025

Not only did Lyke help develop the first Ebola vaccine and the first Zika virus vaccine, she worked on the phase one studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. While that is one of the more impressive parts of her background, Lyke’s passion for taking care of the world encompasses everything she does.

May 21, 2025

First author Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD, ABPP, CBSM, DBSM, says the findings make sense. “A number of studies have demonstrated that even partial [C]PAP adherence can lead to improved health outcomes,” he says. “It stands to reason that the same would also be true for economic costs.”

May 21, 2025

"We want to make maker space tools, resources and education accessible to all Baltimore City residents," said Dionne McConkey, UMB Office of Community and Civic Engagement Program Specialist.

May 20, 2025

“Unfortunately, prostate cancer is one of these cancers that until its late stages is without symptoms, and that actually highlights the importance of screening,” said Dr. Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, director of Urologic Oncology and Robotic Surgery at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center

May 20, 2025

A growing number of people, particularly women under 65, are being diagnosed with lung cancer despite never smoking, a Maryland doctor is cautioning.

"Over the last 10 years or so, we've noticed an increasing trend of patients with no or minimal smoking history being diagnosed," Dr. Samuel Rosner, a thoracic oncologist at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, said.

May 20, 2025

“Oral health care providers should be knowledgeable about the salient features of AGS and perform a thorough review of an affected patient’s diagnosis, triggering events, associated adverse incidents, and therapeutic measures used,” wrote the authors, led by Dr. John Brooks, a clinical professor in the department of oncology and diagnostic sciences at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Dentistry in Baltimore.

May 20, 2025

The rule of law provides the foundation for structuring elite domination and a forge for fashioning the weapons of the weak.  The substance of law inevitably reflects the interests and values of the lawmaking, law enforcing, and law interpreting class.

May 19, 2025

After years of debate, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has officially recognized type 5 diabetes as a distinct diagnosis. This new classification highlights a form of the condition linked to childhood malnutrition, which primarily affects millions of teens and young adults, particularly in regions like Asia and Africa.

May 16, 2025

“Hip fractures can affect many aspects of function in older people and require multiple strategies to restore function,” said study co-author and one of the study principal investigators, , Professor of Epidemiology in the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM)

May 16, 2025

“The social safety net, at a federal level, is a combination of several programs and policies that provide direct cash benefits, as well as resources,” explains Lauren A. Schuyler, PhD, assistant research director of family welfare research at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work.

May 16, 2025

Brian M. Shear, M.D., from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues assessed whether preinjury mobility data, combined with demographic and injury data, reliably predicted recovery six or more months after the surgical treatment of a lower-extremity fracture. 

May 15, 2025

Baltimore-based ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine has Tarek Hanna, MD, as chief of the diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine clinical service. 

May 15, 2025

±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law Professor Mark Graber speaks with WBAL’s Robert Lang

May 14, 2025

Kathy Hoke leads the legal resource center for public health policy at the university of maryland school of law. these products stay on here not for medical use. do not inhale. how clear does that keep these companies in terms of their liability?

May 14, 2025

That information request is more concerning than the policy rescission, said Liza Vertinsky, law professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, as it makes removing regulations “the goal rather than actually investigating how we might improve public health outcomes.”

May 14, 2025

Co-CEO Ara Katz, who worked with Jacques Ravel, PhD, acting director at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, on Seed’s formulation, presented their findings at last year’s Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) conference.

May 14, 2025

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore (UMB) will award an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree to Ronald Chisom, co-founder of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), during the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work (UMSSW) Convocation on May 19 at The Lyric.

May 14, 2025

"There is a critical window for getting fluoride to protect teeth as they’re developing,” says Dr. Erica Caffrey, clinical assistant professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Dentistry.

May 14, 2025

This will enable 3Daughters to build and become part of a women’s health hub with access to the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore (UMB), Johns Hopkins, and the entire Baltimore-Washington regional bio science corridor.

May 13, 2025

Led by Professor Sang Hoon Kang in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UNIST, the team has created a novel method to objectively measure spasticity by applying subtle forces to a patient's arm and quantifying the resulting movement responses. Designed for rapid, quantitative assessment even by non-experts, this technology could significantly improve tailored rehabilitation strategies and support the establishment of standardized assessment criteria.

May 13, 2025

You may have heard of nitrous oxide during a trip to the dentist’s office. It’s commonly known as “laughing gas” and is used to calm patients during procedures. Nitrous is also legally sold as a culinary product to give whipped cream its fluffy texture. But it’s seeing a recent resurgence for another purpose: illicit recreational drug use by people who inhale it.

May 13, 2025

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission ("Commission") announced awarding over $18 million in grants aimed at accelerating cutting-edge stem cell and regenerative medicine research across Maryland.

May 13, 2025

Since May is National Osteoporosis Awareness Month, Endocrine News is highlighting three articles published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) in January focusing on various aspects of osteoporosis research help further this goal. They also make important strides in answering the many clinical questions surrounding this prevalent disease, including some we didn’t know needed asking.

May 13, 2025

After years of debate, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has formally recognized type 5 diabetes as an official diagnosis.

Unlike other forms of the condition, type 5 diabetes is linked to childhood malnutrition and affects millions of teens and young adults, mostly in Asia and Africa.

May 9, 2025

"You can hear a lot of sounds from the construction going on, a lot of plumbing work, a lot of installations going on," said Dr. Taofeek Owonikoko, Executive Director of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Owonikoko pointed behind him to what will soon become the new Stoler Center for Advanced Medicine expected to open by 2026.

May 9, 2025

A young Maryland woman is "relieved and recovering" after doctors performed to remove her potentially deadly cancerous tumors.

A surgical team at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket.

May 7, 2025

Most of us know that habits like poor diet and lack of exercise are bad for our hearts, but it turns out they’re bad for our brains, too. Conversely, heart-healthy lifestyles can also ward off brain aging and dementia, according to researchers with the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Public Health and the School of Medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore (UMB).

Bishop Seitz: Mass Teaches Key Lesson about Migration

May 6, 2025

Three nationally prominent immigration authorities participating in a webcast discussion of “Immigration and Human Flourishing at the Southern Border” dug deep on a topic the event moderator called “the most politically charged issue in our country today.”

Transcript: Chasing Cancer: Advancing Access

May 6, 2025

I'm delighted to welcome back to Washington Post Live, Dr. Shana Ntiri. She's an assistant professor in the Department for Family and Community Medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine. She's also medical director of Baltimore City's Cancer Program.

May 6, 2025

“The car companies have been crawling all over them for weeks and months,” said Rena Steinzor, an emeritus professor of administrative law at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç.

May 5, 2025

An excerpt from Dr. Bartley Griffith's book in progress: My cell rang. It was Susan Joseph, M.D., the cardiologist who headed our heart transplant program at ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center, calling.

“I’m in trouble,” she said. “My patient is in shock and won’t make it through the night. I’ve done all I can do. His kidneys are failing, medicines are maxed, he is in and out of arrest. He is only 57, and he is going to die.”

May 5, 2025

Establishing a sleep plan during the third trimester of pregnancy ensures that postpartum patients get sufficient blocks of sleep to support the well-being of the entire family. Here to share her insights on what this sleep plan can look like for new parents is Dr. Nicole Leistikow, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç. 

May 5, 2025

Just before the medical staff wheeled Karla Flores into the operating room so that surgeons could work inside her head for the third time in less than a month, the 19-year-old budding manicurist said goodbye to her mom and dad. She didn’t know if she would see them again.

May 1, 2025

Chaz Arnett, a legal scholar at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore, who studies race and technology, is especially critical of the researchers’ use of LLMs to impersonate members of groups such as Black people or sexual assault survivors.

May 1, 2025

“This is an exciting set of findings that have identified hundreds of potential new drug targets and opportunities for repurposing drugs already approved and on the market for other conditions,” said study co-author Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MBA, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine.

May 1, 2025

Scientists from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine have made an important discovery about how children’s brains develop. They found that inflammation in the body during childhood could change how certain brain cells grow.

April 29, 2025

That’s why we fought so hard to pass the Time to Care Act. In 2022, the Maryland General Assembly enacted it, creating a statewide Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program. The author Lisa Klingenmaier is the deputy director of policy at Maryland Family Network and campaign manager of the Time to Care Coalition, and adjunct faculty at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work.

April 29, 2025

Now a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy and an associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Shapiro studies mitogen-activated protein kinases, or MAP kinases. These enzymes are involved in signaling cascades and regulate a range of functions including cellular mitosis, motility and survival.

April 29, 2025

As siblings progress through life, these once-obligatory relationships can transition from roommate to friend or even best friend. In interviews for their 2015 book , authors Geoffrey L. Greif and Michael E. Woolley found 64 percent of respondents said they were good friends with a sibling; 45 percent considered a sibling one of their best friends.

April 27, 2025

“I’m not sure that there’s any value in allowing people who are sick, who are elderly and who are unable to pose any threat to public safety to die in prison,” added Lila Meadows, who’s also director of the Decarceration Initiative Clinic at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law.

April 26, 2025

The Erin Talk curriculum is delivered using restorative dialogue circles facilitated by trained law and social work students like Ebony Battle who is a graduate-level social work student at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work and a community organizer from Baltimore

April 25, 2025

“We continue the longtime trend of our results tracking above the state averages by significant percentages, but I think it also shows we have a lot of work to do,” Laurent said in a recent interview with The Daily Record. “I want and expect that a far greater percentage of not just our first-time takers, but our repeat takers, will get up over that last, final hurdle to practice.” 

April 25, 2025

Research shows similar snap decisions by victims in response to trauma can taint how jurors, judges and prosecutors see defendants, said Leigh Goodmark, a ±¬ÁϹ«Éç law professor who studies the criminalization of domestic violence.

April 24, 2025

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender and ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law have launched a new exoneration clinic, a move that means both of the state’s law schools now offer innocence projects.

April 23, 2025

While Harvard could have any number of attorneys represent it in court, Hur’s “unusual background” benefits the university from a public relations standpoint, said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law

April 23, 2025

Mark Graber, a regents professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey Law School in Baltimore, said in an interview Monday that a Supreme Court decision in favor of the petitioners, or parents, would create “an administrative nightmare.” “There are a lot of religions out there. Schools have to figure out what violates religion, what parents they have to contact,” he said.

April 22, 2025

“At UMB, we remain committed to UMB’s mission to improve the human condition and serve the public good of Maryland and society at-large,” Likowski said. “In connection with that mission, we aim to foster an environment in which teams are able [to] successfully tackle the challenges of our time, including access to health and human services and access to justice.” 

April 22, 2025

"Maryland does not have a universal; you can go through the entire curriculum like a cafeteria and say I want this for my child but not this," said Mark A. Graber, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law. 

April 21, 2025

The story of how Erin McKean, MD, ended up in, as she puts it, the “weird small niche field” of minimally invasive, ventral skull base surgeries — operating on sinonasal cancers and pituitary tumors for instance — might never have happened had she not met her mentor.

April 21, 2025

As colleges and universities formulate, and reformulate, their policies related to the use of artificial intelligence, the technology and its applications are evolving at breakneck speed.

April 21, 2025

“In 2025, smartphones are ubiquitous and continuously capture invaluable mobility data,” Nathan N. O’Hara, PhD, MHA, associate professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, told Healio. “These metrics distinguished between patients with and without nonunions, demonstrating their potential usefulness as objective, real-world functional outcome measures.”

April 21, 2025

The United States has been the world leader in science for decades, but the Trump administration has made plans to cancel or freeze federal grants that fund scientific institutions and universities and shrink or abolish federal scientific agencies. Such actions would end the country’s decades of preeminence in science, researchers and experts warn.

April 21, 2025

“We’ve never been here before,” said Mark Graber, a constitutional law professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç.

“We’re sending people to something that resembles a concentration camp in El Salvador,” he said, noting that as someone who lost family in the Holocaust, he doesn’t use that term lightly. “We send people there without being given a chance to say, ‘You’ve got the wrong person.'”

April 17, 2025

Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) and former Senator Jill P. Carter recently reflected on the 10 years that have passed since the death of Freddie Gray. In two separate events, the leaders spoke on the “Baltimore Uprising” that followed Gray’s funeral and how the city has changed.

April 17, 2025

Dr. Bartley Griffith, who was the surgeon involved here, told us how nervous he was about broaching it and then how this patient responded with humor. He said, you know, what do you think I’m gonna oink? That first operation, that first transplant, lasted only two months.

April 17, 2025

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC) offers a head and neck multidisciplinary clinic where ear, nose and throat surgeons like Dr. Rodney Taylor, and other experts from oncology, pathology and neuroradiology take a patient-centered approach.

April 15, 2025

The rattling or whistling noises of regular snorers are famously hard on those who share their beds. Middle-aged men and people who are overweight come frequently to mind as perpetrators because they are the most common sufferers of sleep apnea, often caused by a temporarily collapsing airway that makes the person snore heavily. But recent studies in children and pregnant women have revealed that even mild snoring can negatively affect health, behavior and quality of life.

April 15, 2025

Despite widespread, lingering shortages, traditional attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) meds – such as methylphenidate (MP) – persist as a reliable front-line treatment. Even so, a frustrating number of patients – nearly a third – fail to respond to the drug. New research might explain why. 

April 15, 2025

Shawn Kwatra, M.D., professor and chair of dermatology at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, recently spoke with Managed Healthcare Executive about new discoveries in chronic itch, how treatment options are improving, and the challenges patients face in getting access to the right therapies.

April 14, 2025

Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS was interviewed for this article about GLP-1s and diabetes.

April 13, 2025

Ten years after the police-involved death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray on April 11, 2015, the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law and Campaign for Justice, Safety and Jobs held an event to reflect on the events of the “Baltimore Uprising” and where the city is now.

April 11, 2025

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Frances King Carey School of Law hosted panels reflecting on events surrounding Freddie Gray's death.

The panels, held Friday, helped communities remember Gray, who was arrested on April 12, 2015, and died after suffering injuries in police custody a week later

April 11, 2025

It's almost been ten years since Freddie Gray died, and an event in downtown Baltimore Friday aimed to not only remember him but also remember what needs to be done when it comes to ensuring fair policing.

Still Rising 10 Years After Freddie Gray's Death was put on by the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, which is apart of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law.

April 10, 2025

There must be a better way. U.S. News has dominated law school rankings for several decades, and its decisions about what to rank and how to weigh those factors have had a significant impact on legal education, and, in my view, not in a good way. 

April 10, 2025

While many medical professionals praise the benefits of cannabis use, there are certainly medical professionals who do not support its use. Professor of psychiatry at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine’s Psychiatric Research Center in Baltimore, David Gorelick, MD, asserts that there is a concerning public misconception that cannabis and cannabinoid products are harmless.

April 10, 2025

Scientists at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, in collaboration with the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy, have developed a new nanoparticle therapy that tackles obesity through two complementary mechanisms: converting energy-storing white fat into calorie-burning beige fat while simultaneously reducing obesity-related inflammation.

April 9, 2025

On 12 March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving home with his young son in Maryland when he was stopped by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Agents took Mr Garcia into custody, then shuttled him to detention facilities in Louisiana and Texas.

April 8, 2025

Rise Early Learning and Family Support Center is another nonprofit organization that provides free early childhood education, respite care, resources and a sense of community.

"We provide breakfast, lunch and snack for all families," said Lezley Lewis-Anthony, with Rise Early.

April 8, 2025

“I think attendings really like it when you’re enthusiastic and ready to be there, and especially keeping in mind that you don’t have to be right. But you do have to have reasoning for why you’re doing something,” said Lindsay Kohan, a fourth-year medical student at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, Baltimore.

April 8, 2025

“Sex is a catch-all phrase that actually refers to a constellation of features, not just one as they’ve defined it here,” , a neuroscientist and pharmacology professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, told us. 

April 7, 2025

The White Lotus creators started planting seeds about Thailand’s deadly pong pong tree in the very first episode.

April 7, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily paused a federal judge’s order that gave the Trump administration until the end of Monday to retrieve a Maryland man the government erroneously deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.

April 7, 2025

For decades, the placebo effect — the phenomenon where a patient’s condition improves after receiving an inert treatment, often a sugar pill, because they believe it to be real medication — has fascinated and sometimes confounded the medical community. But what happens when you remove the deception and tell patients outright that they are receiving a placebo?

April 6, 2025

±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law Dean Renée Hutchins Laurent was interviewed on "In the Courts with Katie Barlow."

April 6, 2025

Mary Favors is still plagued by nightmares from the days her husband beat her, choked her and verbally and sexually abused her. Now, she is in prison for killing him.

April 4, 2025

Jason J. Rose, MD, MBA is quoted in this New York Times article.

April 4, 2025

MASH, an advanced form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, refers to the inflammation of the liver caused by fat buildup. Over time, this inflammation can lead to scarring, liver failure, or even cancer. 

MASH, which stands for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, often develops in people with underlying metabolic conditions such as obesity, high cholesterol, or type 2 diabetes. 

April 4, 2025

For a long time, the Baltimore Police Department did not respect the public’s First Amendment rights.

People were often charged with loitering or disorderly conduct if they criticized officers, participated in protests or recorded police activities...

It got worse before it got better.

April 4, 2025

Research published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs warns many observational studies have previously suggested that moderate drinkers live longer and face fewer health issues than non-drinkers.

But newer research proposes that these reports are misleading.

April 4, 2025

They’ve investigated blood tests to find cancer early and treat it with the best drugs. They’ve looked at new obesity drugs to curb cocaine addiction. They’ve developed medications aimed at addressing chronic pain and prevent norovirus symptoms that have plagued some cruise ships.

April 4, 2025

For people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) inadequately controlled on submaximal dulaglutide (Trulicity) doses, switching to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) produces significantly greater A1c and weight lowering than does escalating dulaglutide treatment.

April 3, 2025

In a significant breakthrough within ovarian cancer research, a team at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM) has discovered a pivotal gene, ZNFX1, which acts as a potent “master regulator.” This discovery is anticipated to revolutionize treatment methodologies in forthcoming clinical trials for patients afflicted with therapy-resistant ovarian cancer.

April 3, 2025

When carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin, it “kicks the oxygen off” the protein, and prevents tissues and organs from getting the oxygen they need to function properly, said Dr. Jason Rose, the chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine.

April 2, 2025

After her husband's death, Favors transported the body and left it elsewhere. Research shows similar snap decisions by victims in response to trauma can taint how jurors, judges and prosecutors see defendants, said Leigh Goodmark, a ±¬ÁϹ«Éç law professor who studies the criminalization of domestic violence.

April 1, 2025

After taking a quiz at Kingdomality.com, which tells you what type of job you would have if you had lived during the Middle Ages — jobs like dreamer-minstrel, discoverer, and even doctor — Stephen Kavic, MD, the program director of the General Surgery Residency Program at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, Baltimore, was less than thrilled to get shepherd.

March 31, 2025

Kathleen Hoke, a ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law professor, said in an email that the amendments to the bill shown to her by a reporter attempt to create a system similar to one in New Hampshire. But they raise a number of legal questions, she said. 

March 31, 2025

The deadliest animal in the world is the pesky blood sucking mosquito, killing an estimated 700,000 people a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But a new study published Wednesday suggests that a rare medication has the potential to make human blood deadly to mosquitoes, offering a new way to treat deadly diseases like malaria, West Nile virus, yellow fever and Dengue fever.

March 31, 2025

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread in poultry flocks unchecked. Scientists say that’s risky because it gives the virus more opportunities to replicate, increasing the chance it could change to spread easily among humans.

March 31, 2025

Between 74% and 95% of incarcerated women have survived domestic abuse or sexual violence, according to the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Many were tried without fair opportunities to prove the scope of the abuse and how it led them to act in self-defense, while others were coerced into crimes, according to advocates, who add that certain laws disproportionately criminalize abused women. 

March 31, 2025

This week, the Maryland Senate is scheduled to vote on HB 853, the Maryland Second Look Act. The Second Look Act would enable people who have served at least 20 years in prison to ask the court to reconsider sentences that may have seemed appropriate when first handed down but are no longer necessary to safeguard the public. People like our clients.

March 27, 2025

Prof Muhammad Mohiuddin, director of the cardiac xenotransplantation programme at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, said: “This is a major leap forward for the field. With a liver, you don’t have to keep it for the rest of your life.

“You can use it as a bridge until a human liver is available for transplant or it can be used as a partial support until the liver regenerates. I firmly believe that this can work.”

March 27, 2025

Yolanda Ogbolu, dean of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing and point person for the collaborative, said the group — which includes faith-based organizations, academia, hospitals and hospital-related entities – is tackling an issue that's been frequently voiced by community members.

March 27, 2025

Here in Maryland, we are grateful to state legislators for recognizing the importance of investing in research and the power of collaboration, as exemplified by MPower, a partnership between the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, College Park and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore.

March 27, 2025

According to Regina Macatangay, MD, a pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, child life specialists make all the difference in the world.

March 25, 2025

Kathleen Hoke, a ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law professor, said in an email that the amendments to the bill shown to her by a reporter attempt to create a system similar to one in New Hampshire. But they raise a number of legal questions, she said.

March 24, 2025

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, President Richard M. Nixon said its mission would be to establish and enforce environmental protection standards, research the adverse effects of pollution and provide grants and technical assistance to help control it.

March 24, 2025

“It produces hormones such as the stress hormone cortisol, as well as inflammatory proteins known as cytokines,” explains Pamela Peeke, M.D., assistant professor of family and community medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine and author of The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction.

March 24, 2025

Op-ed co-authored by Morgan Pardue-Kim, MSW '14, a PhD. candidate at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work, Kerri Evans, PhD, MSW, LCSW, an assistant professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore County Department of Social Work, and UMSSW student and research assistant Celene Viveros Garces.

March 21, 2025

For years, Shanda Brown saw dozens of seniors die from drug use at the affordable housing complex where she worked in Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood.

“We definitely felt like we were out there on our own,” Brown said.

March 20, 2025

A clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun enrolling participants at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, Baltimore.  

Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic disease that can be fatal and causes permanent hearing loss in up to one-third of those who contract it.

March 18, 2025

Sometimes tragedies can be breakthroughs. Or the beginnings of breakthroughs. That’s what happened a few years ago when a ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center surgical team, led by Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin and Bartley Griffith, performed a revolutionary new procedure on a 57-year-old who had terminal heart failure. David Bennett, Sr., had been denied a traditional heart transplant due to a variety of health factors. 

March 18, 2025

"Pharmacists are one of the most accessible health care practitioners, and they are perfectly positioned to help older adults gain the most benefit from Age-Friendly care," said Lamy Center Executive Director Nicole J. Brandt, PharmD, MBA.

March 17, 2025

Various plants, herbs, and substances are being called “nature’s Ozempic,” usually because of anecdotal evidence or small studies that show weight loss.

March 17, 2025

President Donald Trump has claimed that a batch of last-minute blanket pardons issued by former President Joe Biden are "null and void."

March 14, 2025

Measles may seem like a disease of the past. Indeed, the highly contagious virus was declared eradicated in the United States in 2000 after a full year had passed without any infections. But times have changed. Texas is now experiencing the largest measles outbreak in nearly three decades, and the virus is spreading across the country.

March 13, 2025

As many as half of nursing home residents are cognitively impaired and may be unable to communicate symptoms such as pain or anxiety to the staff and clinicians caring for them. Therefore, information needed for the evaluation of symptoms and subsequent treatment decisions typically does not reliably exist in nursing home electronic health records (EHRs).

March 13, 2025

Dr. Luana Colloca, a former fellow at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, now leads non-pharmaceutical pain research at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç in Baltimore and is a professor at the universities school of nursing. She is a parishioner of St. Leo the Great in Little Italy.

March 13, 2025

"The PATIENTS Program really listens to the voices of patients and their health care providers out there in the community, and then we try to serve as a bridge between those communities and researchers, and we try to answer relevant questions to improve health right here in West Baltimore, but increasingly across the nation," Mullins told 11 News.

March 12, 2025

Sarah Lustbader on the feminist law professor Leigh Goodmark, who for years was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions but who now holds an opposite view.

March 12, 2025

But until now, public calls to increase collaboration between the two agencies had not come with the idea of folding the USPS into the Commerce Department. Such a unilateral move by the president would violate the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, says Rena Steinzor, an administrative law expert who retired last year as a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç's law school.

March 12, 2025

Although measles was considered "eliminated" from the U.S. 25 years ago, in recent years, epidemiologists could see the writing on the wall. Vaccination rates were starting to dip in the U.S., and cases were beginning to rise globally. An outbreak was likely.

March 12, 2025

INCREASING diversity in research, from basic science to clinical trials, remains essential for advancing equitable healthcare outcomes. This is according to a panel discussion at the Skin of Color Society Scientific Symposium at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Systemic barriers, however, political pressures, and recruitment challenges continue to threaten progress.

March 12, 2025

Researchers at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM) have significantly advanced the field of global health with their recent findings on a new meningitis vaccine.

March 12, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it seeking to stop climate lawsuits in five Democratic-led states, which are seeking financial damages from oil and gas companies for having obscured the connection between their products and global warming.

March 10, 2025

On a 300-acre farm in an undisclosed location in rural Wisconsin, surrounded by fields dotted with big red barns and bordered by wild blue chicory and goldenrod, live some of the most pampered pigs in the world.

March 9, 2025

Why can’t anything ever just stay still?

A patient posed this question during a therapy session, reflecting on how, as we age, many things can get thrown into disarray — home life, social relations, job security and health.

March 8, 2025

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since childhood, unable to do much physically and dependent on ibuprofen for relief.

March 7, 2025

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain.

March 7, 2025

We are in a clarifying moment about the law. This includes noticing the emergence of what legal scholars like Chaz Arnett call the “datafied state,” where the State expands social control and power and widens surveillance of peoples through datafication processes.

March 7, 2025

On a Thursday edition of FOX45 Morning News Shannon Lilly spoke with Dr. Yolanda Ogbolu, dean of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing about the collective and their mission.

March 6, 2025

The new Institute for Health Computing in Montgomery County with AI faculty from College Park linked with medical researchers from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç-Baltimore and ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical System across the state will support the existing bio cluster in the Bethesda-I-270 corridor.

March 5, 2025

“Detention centers have become tinderboxes for infectious-disease outbreaks,” Mark Travassos, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics and a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School Of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, said in a statement.

March 5, 2025

Meanwhile, , DNP, NNP-BC, IBCLC, C-EFM, assistant professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing, says larger-scale programs can help combat the problem as well. 

March 5, 2025

The Trump administration’s moves to shrink the federal workforce put the FDA’s ability to regulate drugs and oversee the pharmaceutical industry at risk, according to current and former agency employees. 

March 4, 2025

The female body has often been overlooked in science, and the vagina remains the most taboo part of it.

March 3, 2025

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just made it easier for patients to get clozapine, the only drug approved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. 

March 3, 2025

Richard Barth, professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work, said the corrected data is not necessarily a comfort to those in his field, as he believes there are issues with the national reporting system at large.

February 27, 2025

Bottom Line Personal spoke with internationally renowned placebo expert Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS, about and how it can be used in health care today. 

February 27, 2025

February 27, 2025

“D.C. loses tax revenue if these players don’t live in D.C.,” says Donald Tobin, a professor of law at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law.

February 27, 2025

A significant number of Americans experience chronic inflammatory skin conditions with no pinpointed cause and often no effective treatments beyond symptom management. Now a new study could pave the way for precision-medicine based diagnostic testing and targeted treatment.

February 27, 2025

In Baltimore City, the 11 grants the consortium issued take into account a stigma surrounding mental health services, said Jennifer Cox, director of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School Mental Health Program, which received a $970,000 grant to run a number of programs.“We think in Baltimore City, we have to be a little bit more creative than just saying, ‘Come get help,’ ” Cox said.

February 26, 2025

“There were patients who ended up relapsing into psychosis, patients who ended up hospitalized, patients who became violent,” said Raymond C. Love, a professor emeritus at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy, who helped organize the effort.

February 25, 2025

"Permanent daylight savings time is the worst possible option." Dr. Emerson Wickwire is a sleep specialist at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine and one of many experts..."

February 25, 2025

Fluoride fortifies your tooth enamel, the hard outer layer protecting the soft pulp and sensitive nerves inside. “It helps make the teeth stronger and more resistant to breakdown, and it helps remineralize or re-harden teeth that have begun to soften,” says Erica Caffrey, DDS, a clinical assistant professor of pediatric dentistry at the Univ. of Maryland School of Dentistry and a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s Council for Clinical Affairs.

February 25, 2025

Catholic Charities of Baltimore won state grants to fight chronic absenteeism in three Maryland public school districts by connecting troubled students with the mental health services they need.

February 25, 2025

A new study found that weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may be contributing to a national trend of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis.

February 24, 2025

Another expert noted that a number of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders are currently pending. Any effort by the executive branch to learn more about the inner workings of the judiciary would be “a profoundly significant violation of an internal judicial process,” Max Stearns, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s law school, told Bloomberg. 

February 24, 2025

“We have to invest in it in a significant way now and going forward for the next 30 years because so many of our young people are suffering,” said Britt Patterson, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine. “As a result, the adults in their lives are also struggling.”

February 24, 2025

Paris Barnes, a senior training specialist with the PATIENTS Program at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy, watched her biological father struggle with addiction when she was a child.

February 24, 2025

Anne Arundel County public service and government buildings will reopen on Tuesday, Feb. 25, as an investigation into a cyber incident continues, county officials say.

February 24, 2025

County offices that were closed on Monday, like the Housing Resource Center and the Anne Arundel County Department of Health in Glen Burnie, will re-open on Tuesday following an ongoing "cyber incident" that led to a precautionary shutdown.

February 21, 2025

Five years ago, Sally Proske was 30 and desperate. She had accumulated nearly $41,000 in high-interest credit card debt—more than she could comfortably pay off on her salary as a live-event and concert production manager in Chicago and still afford rent and food. She knew there was such a thing as debt relief companies and had a vague understanding that they could help her manage and even lower her debt, so she Googled to find one.

February 19, 2025

Maryland’s two law schools will be among the first in the nation to adopt a new bar exam next year.

The NextGen exam, designed to assess law graduates’ grasp of practical legal skills instead of their ability to memorize legal doctrine, focuses on core competencies such as negotiation, legal research and client counseling.

February 19, 2025

“The traditional focus of the bar exam has been, in large part, to test the general knowledge base of law school graduates,” said Micah J. Yarbrough, director of bar programs at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law. “The NextGen aims to move the needle even farther toward aptitude assessment. The goals are to license more practice-ready applicants prepared to take on the challenges of the modern-day practitioner.”

February 19, 2025

Over the lifetime of the study program the collaborative research will include work with academic institutions and partners including Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liverpool, University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine, YouGov and the Human Animal Bond Research Institute, with the aim to deliver novel research and new insights. 

February 15, 2025

In an ongoing effort to help alleviate the healthcare professional shortage on the Eastern Shore in Maryland, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore (UMB) is working with Londonderry on the Tred Avon to host an event for prospective high school and college students, as well as the surrounding community, to learn more educational pathways

February 13, 2025

“A little bit over 55% percent of our sample said things were getting a little better or much better. About 32% said things had not really changed, and about one in eight said things were really getting worse for interracial couples,” said Geoffrey Greif, a ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore professor who holds a doctorate in social work.

February 13, 2025

In 2022 a patient named David Bennett became the first living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart transplant. A team at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine performed the surgery using a kidney with 10 edits to its genetic code from a pig engineered by Revivicor (a subsidiary of United Therapeutics, the company providing the organs for the new trial). Sadly, Bennett developed complications and died two months later.

February 13, 2025

A local cosmetic surgery center on the northeast side of Ames has abruptly closed for unknown reasons.

February 12, 2025

Arthritis “is a process by which the cartilage, or cushion in a joint, wears away over time,” explains , an orthopedic surgeon and associate professor of orthopedics at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine.

February 11, 2025

“It’s complete legal overreach,” Robert Percival, an environmental law professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, said of the multi-state lawsuit against New York. “A state says another state passes a superfund law, and we don’t like it so therefore it violates all our rights? Just unbelievable.”

February 11, 2025

Dr. Cassidy Claassen is associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine.

February 11, 2025

But Dr. Bruce Jarrell, president of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore, said most of his university’s endowment money is designated by donors for scholarships or other specific uses. Foundations can’t make up the funding, and universities like his already put substantial funds toward research, he added.

February 11, 2025

“They told people to go home and not work at the office. At the same time, they’re saying to other government employees ‘no more remote work,’” says Jeff Sovern, a Michael Millemann professor of consumer law at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s Francis King Carey School of Law.

February 11, 2025

“Indirect cost recovery is necessary and pays for important expenses used to conduct research such as building maintenance, utilities, IT support, grants administration, animal care, protection for human subjects, safeguarding against unlawful conflicts of interest, compliance with federal regulations, and many other critical functions,” UMB president Bruce Jarrell wrote in a letter to UMB staff and students on Monday.

February 10, 2025

Hip fractures in older adults can lead to serious complications, disability and even death. Traditionally, orthopaedic surgeons have repaired a common fracture of the upper part of the thigh bone, or femur, near the hip using screws and plates to piece together slightly separated pieces of bone. But many surgeons now treat these "minimally displaced" femoral neck fractures by replacing the hip joint with a metal implant.

February 10, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the federal agency responsible for protecting Americans from predatory financial practices—effectively ceased operations this weekend following the abrupt firing of its director, Rohit Chopra, marking one of the most significant reversals of consumer protections in recent history.

February 10, 2025

It’s easy to criticize the FDA, whether you think the agency makes it too hard for innovative treatments to help the patients who need them or that Big Pharma holds too much sway over decisions. We’ll avoid that fight and instead focus on why the public, with the FDA’s help, has misunderstood why so many Americans die from resistant infections every year. In short: The Food and Drug Administration focuses on bugs instead of patients.

February 10, 2025

"We're going to have things hanging in the windows similar to what she hung in the window back during her time of practicing there that had inspiring messages," said Lydia Watts, the executive director of the ROAR Center.

February 10, 2025

±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore named to Executive Alliance Honor Roll Award for Women’s Representation. Each award recipient has at least 30% of their executive leadership and board of director seats held by women. 

February 7, 2025

On a hot summer day, a woman working with a state suicide prevention program was approached by her neighbor who asked to share a drink on her porch, and for a foam sleeve — known as a Koozie – to keep it cold.

The woman grabbed the first foam sleeve she saw — branded to promote ManTherapy.org — and handed it to her neighbor. The two shared a drink and the neighbor went back home, Koozie in hand.

February 7, 2025

On the surface, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen centered on how New York issued permits to people who wanted to carry their guns in public. The Court said that the state’s practice of issuing concealed carry permits only to those who could prove they had a special need to carry a gun — like a threat to their personal safety — was a violation of their constitutional rights.

February 6, 2025

The Erin Levitas Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending sexual violence by providing early education resources for youth, young people, caregivers, and educators, has launched a new question-and-answer portal, Every Body Has Questions, to support and encourage conversations about bodies, boundaries, and safety.

February 6, 2025

As Psychiatric Times celebrates its 40th anniversary all year long, Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC sat down to discuss 40 years of mental health care and what has changed in psychiatry.
Robinson is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing in Baltimore. She is also the director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the university.

February 6, 2025

Authors and ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work researchers Geoffrey Greif, DSW, MSW, and Kathleen Holtz Deal, PhD, MSW, conducted more than 400 interviews with couples. The researchers found that maintaining friendships with other pairs could assist with solidifying a sense of self in couples and even up partners' attraction to each other.

February 6, 2025

Epps’ colleague Mark Graber, a law professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, has also studied the 14th Amendment. He tells Information: “Trump and his legal advisors’ argument collapses when you consider that children born to non-Americans can be deported. If they can be deported, it means they fall under U.S. jurisdiction.”

February 5, 2025

WalletHub asked a panel of experts to share some budgeting advice.

February 5, 2025

“We are coming to the realization that there are certain gold standard treatments that we have to provide for our patients, which include medications for opioid use disorder,” Weintraub said.

February 5, 2025

"Men construct friendships in , like [playing] sports or watching sports," says Greif. "They feel less comfortable interacting face-to-face, the way women construct friendships. Women like to get together and have more intimate conversations."

February 4, 2025

“Some defendants will, appropriately, seek to negotiate settlements,” Hoke told The Daily Record. “And many survivors will be willing to do so particularly if the settlements are not confidential. A huge part of the campaign for the CVA was about exposing organizations that harbor abusers. Survivors are far more motivated by bringing that to light and protecting today’s children than by money.” 

February 4, 2025

Trials will enable researchers to select people who are in better health than those first compassionate-use recipients to assess the transplant’s safety and efficacy, says Muhammad Mohiuddin, a surgeon and researcher at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine in Baltimore.

February 4, 2025

Dr. Brian Corwell, an emergency and sports medicine physician at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, downplayed the idea that participants wearing protective garments put themselves at an increased risk.

February 4, 2025

The trial leadership team includes co-principal investigators Gerard Slobogean, MD, director of clinical research for the Department of Orthopaedics at ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine,

February 4, 2025

Dr. Eric Weintraub, a professor of psychiatry at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s School of Medicine, said some populations have a harder time accessing appropriate health care and putting their trust in traditional medical institutions.

February 3, 2025

As Psychiatric Times celebrates its 40th anniversary all year long, Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC sat down to discuss 40 years of mental health care and what has changed in psychiatry.

Robinson is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing in Baltimore. She is also the director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the university.

February 3, 2025

Under current state law, “you can only be considered for geriatric parole if you’ve been convicted of multiple violent offenses,” said Lila Meadows, an assistant public defender and clinical faculty member at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s Francis King Carey School of Law. “That wouldn’t have been the [General Assembly’s] intent.”

February 3, 2025

In Baltimore, the rabbits were receiving a somewhat different concoction. They belonged to the lab of Allan Doctor, the director of the Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis, at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, and the co-inventor of ErythroMer, a synthetic nanoparticle that mimics the oxygen-carrying role of red blood cells.

January 31, 2025

Protein kinases, enzymes that add phosphate groups to other proteins, are often dysregulated in diseases. This makes kinase inhibitors popular drugs, although they often target things they aren’t supposed to. To mitigate these off-target effects, scientists like Paul Shapiro are finding ways to target specific functions of a kinase, rather than inhibiting the whole enzyme. 

January 30, 2025

Mark Graber, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s Francis King Carey School of Law, pointed to the 1996 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Printz v. United States. In that case, justices set the precedent that the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution does not give the federal government the authority to force state officials to carry out federal programs.

January 30, 2025

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore opened a 250,000-sf innovation center in January of 2024 to drive biomedical advances and accelerate the discovery of new health solutions.

January 29, 2025

All children must be seen, viewed and treated as children, receive the benefit of their adolescence and be provided the supports and services needed to overcome any challenges they may face.  Michael Pinard and Monique L. Dixon are the faculty director and executive director, respectively, of the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law.

January 29, 2025

Five years after a novel virus rocked the world, killed millions, and continues to sicken people; amid ongoing outbreaks of bird flu and mpox and tuberculosis, public health and scientific research are being gutted in America—and it’s happening more quickly than even experts thought possible.

January 29, 2025

“More people live with chronic pain than cancer, diabetes, and heart disease combined,” Da Silva said. “This study is a breakthrough in developing an accurate pain biomarker that could not only predict individuals’ pain but also help prevent who will develop such a debilitating condition—chronic pain.”

January 29, 2025

ETC Baltimore, dedicated to elevating Baltimore as a national leader in tech startups, announces the opening of its inaugural ETC Venture Hub at Connect Labs Baltimore in the newly constructed 4MLK Building in the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç BioPark.

January 28, 2025

In an international effort, researchers at Western, the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Dentistry (UMSOD) and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) uncovered how specific patterns in brain activity can predict an individual’s sensitivity to pain, expanding opportunities for improved pain management strategies.  

January 28, 2025

Mr. Laurenson was part of a study at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine to test a new monoclonal antibody designed to prevent malaria transmission. Specifically, he had agreed to take part in a human challenge trial, a research method in which volunteers are knowingly infected with a pathogen.

January 28, 2025

As a pair of scholars, Elizabeth Palley and Corey Shdaimah, : Caring for very young children in the United States has not been framed as part of larger universal policies to support families. As a result, it has been left on the sidelines of major political discourse

January 27, 2025

Everyone needs their vice. For me, it’s tacos. Tacos and a cheap can of beer. But each January, the tacos hit differently because the beer is gone. I’ve been Dry Januarying for longer than I can remember, and will be the first to praise the hashtag. Over time, mine has extended to February, March, and now through most of the year until the Midwest grows cold and the parties feel cozy.

January 27, 2025

With a Day 1 executive order involving electric vehicles, President Donald Trump is seeking to upend Maryland programs to grow EV sales and install car chargers.

But experts say the path ahead is legally cloudy.

January 26, 2025

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine partnered with the engAGE with Heart initiative to provide free health screenings at Baltimore area churches.

On Sunday, inside Mount Pleasant Church and Ministries, people got a little extra care from the inside out.

January 26, 2025

Mark Graber, professor, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law, discusses birthright citizenship on WBAL Radio.

January 24, 2025

Of over 350,000 adults with type 2 diabetes, thyroid cancer risk was significantly higher within the first year after GLP-1 agonist initiation compared with SGLT2 inhibitors, DPP-4 inhibitors, or sulfonylureas (HR 1.85, 95% CI 1.11-3.08), reported Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS, of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues.

January 24, 2025

Researchers are also exploring adjuvants to enhance the effectiveness of bird flu vaccines. Matthew Frieman, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, is developing an adjuvant that could move to early-stage clinical trials within a year. “You don’t want to wait until it’s everywhere and then you decide to make a vaccine,” Frieman said.

January 24, 2025

Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, said Trump tried to repeal coastline protections in his first term and got some pushback.

"It would be difficult," Percival explained. "When Trump tried to roll back, during his first term, some areas that had been protected by previous presidents, a judge said that the Act did not clearly give the president the authority to roll them back. So, it's kind of an open legal question."

January 23, 2025

As victims of several natural disasters are facing homelessness and economic ruin, many are searching for an economic lifeline. The tax code will provide some assistance, but the benefit is haphazard, somewhat random, and mostly helps wealthy individuals. The provision is so complicated that receiving assistance under it is like winning the tax assistance lottery.

January 22, 2025

The spread of influenza A, COVID and RSV is "high" or "very high" across much of the U.S. at the same time norovirus cases are well above normal levels, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and wastewater surveillance data shows.

January 22, 2025

Dry January, a month-long stint of sobriety at the beginning of the new year, is growing in popularity in the United States.

According to data from Civic Science, 23 percent of U.S. adults 21 and over said they intended to take part in Dry January in 2023. That grew to 27 percent in 2024.

January 22, 2025

Psychiatric training instills in us the importance of completing a comprehensive initial evaluation of patients. We are each afforded varying time windows to complete our assessments with different documentation systems and sometimes additional information to satisfy requirements. 

January 21, 2025

Robert Percival, an environmental law professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, called the Alabama et al. petition the “most outlandish of all” and said he expects the Supreme Court will reject it. “It doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on,” he said.

January 21, 2025

In researching for his book, co-authored with Michael E Woolley, Adult Sibling Relationships Dr Geoffrey Greif found that one in five (21 per cent) of interviewees had a strained relationship with their adult siblings. The cosy ideal of supporting each other through the ups and downs of life like the Waltons siblings just isn’t realistic.

January 20, 2025

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore received $10.6 million for the state's Abortion Care Clinical Training Program and about $5 million was set aside to increase Medicaid provider's reimbursements for abortion care. 

January 19, 2025

is a non profit that provides coaching and staff development, community school programming and policy recommendations for Maryland schools. Director Shantay McKinily talks about development strategies, school programs and what policy recommendations they have on the books for 2025.

January 17, 2025

But unlike other immigration documents, eliminating U and T visas, with their humanitarian angles designed to help marginalized communities, would have devastating effects for immigrants who seek refuge in the U.S., Iris Cardenas, an assistant professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work said.

January 16, 2025

Years of efforts across the University System of Maryland, the real estate industry, local government and a variety of private and nonprofit players led to Wednesday night’s star-studded ribbon-cutting for 4MLK. Even the news that Baltimore was again left off the federal Tech Hubs funding list couldn’t dampen the excitement. 

January 16, 2025

Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, MS, FAPhA, FNAP is the Gyi Endowed Memorial Professor of Pharmapreneurship and Associate Dean for Clinical Services and Practice Transformation at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy. She spoke with the Student Doctor Network about the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Pharmapreneurship® pathway.

January 16, 2025

With an approaching federal deadline, healthcare and legal experts have developed a framework for evaluating the use of AI-powered algorithms.

As AI, clinical algorithms and predictive analytics become more prevalent in healthcare, HHS finalized a rule April 26 to ensure that these tools do not discriminate "on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability."

By May 6, CMS-funded entities must comply with the rule.

January 16, 2025

Baltimore gained a new hub for life science activity with the grand opening this week of an eight-story tower at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç BioPark.

4MLK is the name of the $180 million, 250,000-square-foot multi-tenant lab and office building that opened at 4 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. on what would have been the slain civil rights leader’s 96^th birthday.

January 16, 2025

An eight-story science and tech hub that's been years in the making celebrated its grand opening this week, introducing new space to West Baltimore that a city developer believes can become an innovation center for the region.

Developer Wexford Science & Technology and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore unveiled the 250,000-square-foot 4MLK building at 4 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. on Wednesday.

January 16, 2025

While both drugs work for pain relief, Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, a professor and executive director at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland, explains that the two drugs are only taken together if a patient is experiencing a relatively complex pain situation.

January 15, 2025

4MLK is the newest addition to the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç's BioPark, set to bring a wave of innovation and opportunity to Southwest Baltimore.

"This is going to represent a bold vision for breaking down silos between traditional engineering, bioengineering, and medicine," says Dr. Mark Gladwin, Dean of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine.

January 15, 2025

The use of psychedelic-assisted therapy to treat trauma and other ailments is on the rise. ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore puts it front and center with an interdisciplinary speaker series across social work, pharmacy, and nursing called Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Science and Practice of Psychedelic Therapies. 

January 14, 2025

As wildfires rage in southern California, Scripps News spoke with Dr. Omer Awan, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, about the health risks involved for those nearby.

January 14, 2025

“Too often, the first sign of osteoporosis is a broken bone, which can lead to serious health issues,” USPSTF member said in a statement from the group.

January 14, 2025

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore (UMB) and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, College Park (UMCP) have announced a $10 million gift from Edward and Jennifer St. John and the Edward St. John Foundation in support of a center focused on translational engineering and medicine.

January 13, 2025

In addition to guests, members and colleagues, Hyatt is extending its purpose of care to help enhance sleep routines, Hyatt is also providing complimentary, one-year subscriptions to Headspace to support nonprofit organizations, including Salt & Light Coalition Chicago, ReStore NYC, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Safe Center for Human Trafficking Survivors, Safe House Project, BEST Alliance and Survivor Alliance.

January 13, 2025

Marty Bass is live from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy to discuss history and new technology.

January 13, 2025

Christopher Plowe, adjunct professor of medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, agrees that Carter’s advocacy has helped governments and public health agencies around the world stay focused on eradicating Guinea worm disease. The Carter Center has pitched in, too, investing about $500 million since 1986.

January 13, 2025

Democratic states across the country are embarking on a pioneering effort to increase access to abortion by teaching people who are not doctors to offer and perform the procedure.

January 11, 2025

“Grandpa can come [along] now,” said Dr. Bartley P. Griffith, a professor of transplant surgery in the university’s School of Medicine, about the artificial lung support device he helped create and commercialize before it was bought by Johnson & Johnson.

January 9, 2025

Dr. Clayborne is currently a faculty member at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine with an academic focus on ethics, health policy, end-of-life care, and innovation/entrepreneurship. 

January 8, 2025

Dr. Bartley Griffith, the lead surgeon involved in both the first and second pig heart transplantations at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, emphasized the need for continuous exploration of xenotransplantation as a feasible option for patients like Mr. Faucette, especially those who are ineligible for standard human heart transplants.

January 7, 2025

As infections from three viruses—human metapneumovirus (HMPV), bird flu, and norovirus—continue to climb, infectious disease and population health experts told Newsweek about the recent rise in cases, prevention measures, and what may come next.

January 7, 2025

Despite living far away from Canada, Maryland residents experienced more cardiopulmonary disease health concerns in June 2023 believed to be due to Canadian wildfire pollution, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

January 6, 2025

A new report once again raises the question of whether there is a link between fluoride in drinking water and lower IQ levels in children.

The research, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, is a review of 74 other studies exploring how the mineral may affect children’s IQ levels.

January 3, 2025

“We have had the data on some of the cancers for a very long time that they directly associate with cancer, and those were breast, colon, these two we've known for a long time. Liver, you know, these are big cancers,” said Dr. Niharika Khanna of ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine. “I think the entire medical community has known that, but the surgeon general hadn't stepped up yet to recommend these guidelines.”

January 1, 2025

Expanding the pool of health care providers with reproductive health care skills outside of the state’s urban centers is vital, said Mary Jo Bondy, associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore. She helped create the new training program.

December 30, 2024

Now 53 and in recovery, Hinman helps people struggling with a gambling problem navigate the resources available to them. As a peer recovery specialist at the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, he fields calls and messages from those seeking help for trouble with gambling at casinos, on the lottery or on sports, whether for themselves or for a loved one.

December 29, 2024

A number of birth conditions can lead to one foot being a significantly different size than the other. For instance, "if you're born with a club foot, that whole extremity is smaller than the opposite side," Dr. Jacob Wynes, an associate professor and chief of podiatric services at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, told Live Science.

December 27, 2024

Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, professor and codirector of the Mental Health Program, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, School of Pharmacy, explained that the new target of the treatment helps to control the adverse effects of the medication.15 Xanomeline is the part of the treatment that helps with psychosis, but trospium is only working to help with the side effects of the xanomeline.

December 22, 2024

Christopher W.T. Miller, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center and an associate professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine. He is the author of “The Object Relations Lens: A Psychodynamic Framework for the Beginning Therapist.”

December 18, 2024

“Baltimore had very dark skies, and we could all smell the smoke in the air,” said Mary Maldarelli, MD, a pulmonary critical care fellow at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM), who is the first author on the study. “But most importantly, my patients came in to me saying they were coughing quite a bit more and needed their medications more often, so they felt much sicker than they usually did when these wildfires occurred.”

December 18, 2024

For some, it’s the sound of wailing parents that are indelible. Hershaw Davis, who has worked as an emergency nurse at Johns Hopkins for years and teaches nurses at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical School, said the sounds of grieving parents stay with him.

“When you hear a mother or a father cry over their child's dead body, and I've heard it a lot, you will never forget that cry in your life,” Davis said.

December 17, 2024

The Trump administration can’t overrule those state laws, said Kathi Hoke, director of the Network for Public Health Law’s eastern region and a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç law school. They can’t tell a state “how it can act within its own borders on a public health measure, generally speaking,” she said.

December 17, 2024

“We have to have the courage to continue,” said ±¬ÁϹ«Éç transplant surgeon Dr. Bartley Griffith. Back in 2022, Griffith had a hard time figuring out how to ask a dying patient if he’d consider undergoing the world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig heart.

December 16, 2024

To find out how that program is going, we turn to Dr. Jessica Lee, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine and co-principal investigator of the training program. And we speak with Samantha Marsee, a nurse practitioner who recently completed the training.

December 16, 2024

Michael Pinard, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Law, runs a legal clinic through which law students represent kids who are facing expulsion, suspension or other discipline at school, with the goal of keeping them out of the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

December 16, 2024

Against the above background, Shawn G. Kwatra, Maryland Itch Center, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, and colleagues aimed to assess the risk of sleep disorders in prurigo nodular patients and explore their connection to system inflammation and negative cardiovascular outcomes.

December 16, 2024

Researchers from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC) found that medical visits for heart and lung problems rose by nearly 20 percent during six days in June, 2023, when smoke from Western Canadian wildfires drifted across the country, leading to very poor air quality days in Baltimore and the surrounding region.

December 16, 2024

"BNC2 neurons in the hypothalamus, which are activated by the hunger hormone leptin, provide the potential for a completely new class of obesity drugs," said Mark T. Gladwin, MD, who is the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean of UMSOM, and Vice President for Medical Affairs at ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore. "These drugs would be distinct from Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonists, which stimulate insulin secretion."

December 16, 2024

If a person has smoked for a decade or more, the addiction might be more challenging to break because of how ingrained that behavior is, according to Dr. Niharika Khanna. Khanna, a professor of family and community medicine at Baltimore’s ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine for more than 30 years, is the director of the Maryland Tobacco Control Resource Center.

December 14, 2024

It's a Christmas miracle for West Baltimore resident Paulette Carroll.

"My granddaughter, she is three months old. But we need toys to have her looking around and moving her head and stuff. So this is wonderful, and it plays music," said Carroll. 

Today she gets to holiday shop for her grandchildren for a fraction of the price these toys would cost in stores.

December 13, 2024

Wildfire smoke wafting across the country from North America West blazes may be leading to cardiac and respiratory issues thousands of miles away, a new study has found.

Medical visits for heart and lung issues in the Baltimore region surged by 20 percent during six days in June 2023, when smoke from Western Canada blazes drifted across the continent, according to the study, published on Friday in JAMA Network Open.

December 13, 2024

FDA advisors said that more data are needed to fully understand if there are broader safety concerns related to use of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines in young children after an mRNA vaccine trial was halted earlier this year.

December 12, 2024

“Women who would be more comfortable collecting their HPV test sample themselves can now do so,” Dr. Esa Davis, a task force member and a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, said in a statement. “We hope that this new, effective option helps even more women get screened regularly.”

December 12, 2024

±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law professor Doug Colbert does not think a competency hearing will be needed due to Mangione’s educational background and academic prowess. Colbert said Mangione likely understands the gravity of the case against him.

December 11, 2024

In a word: diffusion. Innovation works best in density — where invention and commercialization can walk to get a coffee. Plenty of Baltimore leaders get this: look at ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Biopark’s chief Jane Shaab, UpSurge executive director and obsessive organizer Kory Bailey and the well-regarded Impact Hub Baltimore, all tireless connectors. 

December 11, 2024

Although deporting U.S. citizens is unconstitutional, it has happened illegally in the past, according to Mittelstadt and Maureen Sweeney, the director of the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law.

December 11, 2024

“Women who would be more comfortable collecting their HPV test sample themselves can now do so,” said task force member Esa Davis, associate VP for community health at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Baltimore. “We hope that this new, effective option helps even more women get screened regularly.”

December 11, 2024

Jay Unick, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Social Work, said harm reduction outreach needs to reach communities that have been disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis in Baltimore, specifically older African American men. Historically, many in the city smoked or snorted opioids, Unick said.

December 10, 2024

“Our goals were to revitalize the neighborhoods near the university and offer an awesome benefit to our employees,” said Dawn Rhodes, the institution’s chief business and finance officer and senior vice president. “This is our community, and we care enough that we want to invest in it.”

December 10, 2024

In a recent study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Joanna Cooper at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, Aurelien Lathuiliere at Massachusetts General Hospital and a team of researchers focused on a receptor called Sortilin-related receptor 1, or SORL1, that is involved in tau accumulation inside the cells.

December 10, 2024

“The evidence on zinc is far from settled: we need more research before we can be confident in its effects,” Susan Wieland, an assistant professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine who authored a 2024 review of existing studies on zinc supplements and the common cold, said.

December 10, 2024

“We are highlighting that HPV screening, as the primary screening for women ages 30 to 65, is the best balance between the benefits and the harms in finding cervical cancer, and that should be offered first and when available,” said task force member Dr. Esa Davis, professor and senior associate dean for population health and community medicine at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç in Baltimore.

December 9, 2024

Lower-body weakness, cognitive impairment, problems with balance, poor hearing or vision, and certain medications all can increase the risk of falling, says Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, an endowed chair in gerontology at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç in Baltimore. Blood pressure medications are particularly worrisome. “When you stand up, your blood pressure automatically goes down, and if it goes too low, you can get dizzy,” says Dr. Resnick.

December 6, 2024

Frequent snoring is a driver of behavior problems like inattention in the classroom, rule-breaking and aggression, but a new study from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine recently found that overtime snoring does not appear to have a cognitive impact on teen’s academic abilities.

December 5, 2024

Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

The justices’ decision, not expected for several months, could affect similar laws enacted by another 25 states and a range of other efforts to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use.

December 5, 2024

In Michigan, a federal judge has held that the state’s newborn screening program violates parents’ constitutional rights by retaining newborn blood spots for research purposes and purportedly turning them over to police for investigative use. Research data related to drug use, chemical exposure, criminal sentencing, and child abuse have been sought for investigation and criminal and civil cases 

December 5, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to ensure clean water while slashing the federal bureaucracy will soon face a major test, with his administration set to influence the future of the nation’s largest estuary.

An Obama-era blueprint for protecting the Chesapeake Bay faces a critical deadline at the end of next year. The states surrounding the sprawling body of water must now determine next steps, working with input from the federal government.

December 5, 2024

In a study published in the Dec. 5 issue of Nature, a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Medical Genetics at Rockefeller University in New York, the Institute for Genome Science (IGS) at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM) in Baltimore, as well as New York and Stanford Universities discovered a new population of neurons that is responsive to the hormone leptin.

December 5, 2024

Probiotics — live microorganisms, typically bacteria and yeasts, that are intended to improve health — have intrigued scientists for more than a century, but interest has grown dramatically over the past decade. Their potential for treating or preventing a range of diseases, coupled with their apparent safety, has made probiotics an enticing and lucrative industry that is only expected to grow.

December 4, 2024

“ROAR’s attorneys have represented many survivors of domestic violence in their protection order hearings in Baltimore City. Many of them tell the judge they are fearful because their partner has a gun, and the judge replies that the order requires the partner to turn over their gun to the state police."

December 3, 2024

The special counsel appointed to investigate President-elect Donald J. Trump is wrapping up his work without the charges he brought in two cases ever going in front of a jury.

The special counsel named to lead the inquiry into Hunter Biden, the president’s son, has just seen the two convictions he secured wiped away by a presidential pardon.

December 3, 2024

This report features two studies of multisector, community-driven partnerships committed to advancing maternal and infant health outcomes: B’more for Healthy Babies in Baltimore, Maryland, and Cradle Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. While the impetus for these initiatives was concern over alarming infant mortality rates, these partnerships also strive to center the voices and experiences of expectant mothers.

December 3, 2024

The Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) and the Maryland Department of Commerce are pleased to announce the Baltimore City Board of Estimates’ approval of a $200,000 conditional loan to support the establishment of 4MLK Connect Labs, a state-of-the-art flex lab space in the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç BioPark in Baltimore, Maryland.

December 3, 2024

March 26, 2024, was a weird day for me because it was the only one in my life where I was actively trying to get bitten by mosquitos.

I had volunteered to be exposed to malaria as part of a study at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore (UMB) evaluating MAM-01, an injectable drug meant to prevent infection. And by “exposed to malaria” I mean “bitten by mosquitos infected with malaria.”

December 2, 2024

Cases in which someone in apparently good health is physically restrained by police and has a cardiac arrest represent a failure of the medical profession — not just of law enforcement.

December 2, 2024

Maryland is facing a daunting shortfall of nearly 33,000 behavioral health workers over the next few years to keep the state fully staffed and fight off attrition. The number comes from a report commissioned by the Maryland Health Care Commission and presented to the state’s Medicaid Advisory Board.

December 2, 2024

The study found that compared to those with other blood types, those with blood type A had a 16% increased chance of having an early stroke. While having blood type A does not ensure a stroke, it does suggest that this population may be at greater risk. The most prevalent blood type, O, on the other hand, appears to provide some protection; individuals in this group had a 12% reduced risk of an early stroke than those in other blood types.

December 1, 2024

Now that phase one of the holidays is over, it is time for families to prepare for the longer, and often more nettlesome, Christmas season. A bunch of religious and cultural holidays fall around this time also (e.g., Ashura [the beginning of December], Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Korean and Chinese New Year [the end of January], and others). 

November 28, 2024

A newly formed psychedelics task force in Maryland held its initial meetings this month, beginning work on what will eventually become a report to lawmakers on how to reform the state’s laws on substances such as psilocybin, DMT and mescaline.

November 27, 2024

WJZ partnered with the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center Midtown Campus for their annual Thanksgiving drive.

November 27, 2024

Boosters of the project say the building was designed to provide much-needed wet laboratory space for researchers and companies and foster collaboration between the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore and the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical Center.

November 27, 2024

In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee's clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there's not a single clinic that provides abortions. And until recently, Marsee herself wasn't trained to treat patients who wanted to end a pregnancy.

"I didn't really have a lot of knowledge about abortion care," she said.

November 26, 2024

You’ve likely heard the phrase, “Sharing is caring.” Perhaps you’ve even used some version of this expression when talking to the children in your life. It’s true that sharing is a way to show we care for others, but it’s not an automatic skill we hold — it’s a developmental milestone that has to be established and nourished.

November 25, 2024

The $2.2 million funding package from the state and the city will help fuel the creation of Connect Labs, a combination of pre-built lab space, support services and office space that will be located in the upcoming 4MLK tower on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

November 22, 2024

A rash of high-profile Listeria recalls has many wondering what’s gone wrong in the United States food system. What appears to be a surge could actually be due to . Still, with Donald Trump set to return to the Oval Office, the threat of declining food safety is very real.

November 22, 2024

Spiritual beliefs and lack of trust in clinical research may influence Black individuals’ decisions about whether to participate in cancer trials, according to findings presented at American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting.

November 22, 2024

Adolescents who snore frequently were more likely to exhibit behavior problems such as inattention, rule-breaking, and aggression, but they do not have any decline in their cognitive abilities, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM).

November 21, 2024

Eastern shore residents often lack the access to the healthcare they need. The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine is tackling that problem with the ‘Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective’ (or R-HEALE) program. Students are mentored and trained with a focus on rural health needs. We talk with the director, Dr. Leah Millstein and first year student Sarah MacDonald.

November 21, 2024

For decades, the common medical shorthand has been that if you have a young-to-middle-age white female patient of northern European ancestry with neurological symptoms, you should immediately suspect multiple sclerosis (MS). That shorthand is not wrong, but it also doesn't capture the true complexity and prevalence of MS.

Report calls for reforms in Maryland’s handling of youth tried and imprisoned as adults

November 20, 2024

Maryland is among the worst states in the nation when it comes to the number of prison inmates who began their time behind bars for crimes they committed as children, according to a report set to be released Wednesday.

November 20, 2024

A joint FDA advisory committee on Tuesday overwhelming voted to eliminate the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) program designed around the risk for severe neutropenia associated with clozapine, a drug used to treat schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

November 20, 2024

Leigh Goodmark, a professor at The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law who has studied gender-based violence and the law, said recent high-profile court cases are cause for concern. In 2022, Johnny Depp won a defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, who alleged abuse in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

November 19, 2024

Ag law experts from Ohio and West Virginia along with a county planner from Maryland gave a rundown on agritourism trends and legal implications at the 10th annual Agriculture and Environmental Law Conference hosted Nov. 12 by the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s Agriculture Law Education Initiative.
While activities such as corn mazes, petting zoos and hay rides on working farms are typical agritourism practices, some other money-making ventures are not as clearly defined.