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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 Car 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.

November 19, 2024

"The pardon power is unlimited," said Mark Graber, a constitutional law professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç. "Let’s imagine a different president who decides, ‘I’m going to pardon everyone engaged in insider trading who is over six feet tall.’ Utterly arbitrary. They can do it."

November 19, 2024

The Eastern Shore is designed as a medically underserved area, said Dr. Donna Parker, a senior associate dean at the UM School of Medicine. “People there have trouble getting to the doctor, finding doctors that are available with appointments in a timely fashion, having to drive too far to get a doctor,” she said.

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November 18, 2024

Maryland has experienced a “significant increase” in cannabis-related emergency department visits, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

The health department launched a data dashboard last week to track public health impacts of cannabis and visualize trends pre- and post-marijuana legalization in the state.

November 16, 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 16, 2024

In order to find any information on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine policy on his Make America Healthy Again website, you must first scroll through sections asking for donations, official MAHA merch, and an ad offering the opportunity to “secure your place” on a tile in a mosaic of Trump and RFK Jr. shaking hands. Only then, after clicking through eight pages of videos, will you find a video titled “My Take on Vaccines.” 

November 15, 2024

He is the most influential anti-vaxxer in the world, one of the “Disinformation Dozen.” He is an AIDS denier who has revived old conspiracy theories about HIV. He claims that Covid was “ethnically targeted” to spare certain groups of people and that Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates are part of a “vaccine cartel” that produces fake studies in order to impose global lockdowns and 5G.

November 15, 2024

It isn’t ancient history. Just 1,409 days ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump told supporters gathered in Washington to “fight like hell,” walk down to the U.S. Capitol and give House Republicans “the kind of pride and boldness that they need” to refuse to certify the 2020 election following Joe Biden’s decisive win in the presidential election.

November 14, 2024

A meta-analysis led by researchers at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM) has uncovered a surprising link between blood type and the risk of having an early stroke. 

November 14, 2024

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.

November 14, 2024

"Doctors are contending with an explosion of cannabis use, and the THC content has quadrupled from what it was a generation ago. It demonstrates the enduring consequences that prenatal cannabis exposure exerts on the brain's reward system, which ultimately results in a neurobiological vulnerability to opioid drugs," Joseph Cheer, PhD, study corresponding author, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine, said.

November 13, 2024

For a child suffering from abuse or neglect to become so malnourished she appears gaunt is “exceedingly rare,” said Dr. Howard Dubowitz, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Families at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine in Baltimore.

November 13, 2024

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.

November 12, 2024

Proud Boys organizer and Ormond Beach, Florida native Joe Biggs is chipping away at a 17-year-prison sentence for his role on January 6th.

Biggs’ attorney, Norm Pattis, is writing to President-Elect Donald Trump, saying it’s in the public interest to commute Biggs’ sentence.

November 11, 2024

President-elect Trump’s promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health is demoralizing public health experts, who worry he could meddle with key government agencies, amplify vaccine hesitancy and direct agency funding to favor his preferred views.

Those include removing fluoride from public water, promoting a wide variety of unorthodox and unproven treatments and pushing a deep skepticism of pharmaceutical companies and the agencies overseeing them.

November 11, 2024

Diabetes is very common in people living in post-acute and long-term environments, affecting 25% to 34% of these individuals. 

Now there’s a wonderful new resource for those caring for them in the revised Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting, which was recently published by the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association

November 11, 2024

To the Editor:

Re “It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to Sign Away Your Right to a Trial,” by Peter Coy (Opinion, nytimes.com, Oct. 28):
Mr. Coy reports the Chamber of Commerce’s claim that arbitration provides larger recoveries than litigation. In fact, arbitration clauses effectively block consumers from asserting claims unless, as multiple studies have shown, consumers have $1,000 or even more at stake.

November 10, 2024

Is it normal to feel this anxious all the time? How do I know if it’s too much?

These are questions many of my patients ask. Anxiety affects all of us and can be thought of as tension or worry about a situation or stressor.

Anxiety can be adaptive and is a necessary survival skill, given that our environments can be dangerous and unpredictable.

November 7, 2024

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.

November 6, 2024

With Donald Trump having successfully secured the presidency of the United States, significant shifts in American public health policy could be forthcoming.

Professor Omer A. Awan, MD, MPH, is a senior contributor for Forbes.

November 6, 2024

With Trump soon to be in office,  Mark A. Graber, a professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law, expects a major shift in how January 6 cases are handled. 

"Trump is the president, and in the United States, the president basically controls prosecutions," Graber said.

November 6, 2024

Luanna told us about this study that showed if doctors told patients they were turning off pain medication, even when they weren't, that expectation could completely reverse the effects of strong opioids. 

LUANNA: We reverse completely the action of opioids. That is how much words are critical in clinical settings. 

November 6, 2024

"The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore, is really a series of relatively independent schools,” said Deacon Bauerschmidt. "It’s catering to a graduate school population (in public health, law and human services). So that’s an incredibly important audience to reach to foster discussions on how you practice medicine or law as a Catholic. What are the church’s social teachings and how do they affect how you think about social work?"

November 5, 2024

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, a professor of practice, sciences and health outcomes research at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy, in Baltimore, said the results are significant because “the high cost of medications has been a major obstacle for many managing their health conditions.”

November 5, 2024

“Since we define ‘heritage’ as including culture, geography, and genetics, one of the most interesting parts of this research is that we were able to explore the distant genetic relatedness among Latin American countries through population structure and migration patterns,” said Victor Borda, PhD, corresponding author on the paper and Research Associate at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine. “

November 4, 2024

A lawyer for Elon Musk said in a Philadelphia courtroom Monday that the winners of Musk’s $1 million daily prize giveaway in election swing states are not chosen at random, contradicting what Musk said when he announced the contest last month. Legal experts told NBC News that the disclosure could have legal fallout for Musk across multiple jurisdictions under laws designed to protect consumers from deceptive practices. 

November 4, 2024

From a young age, I was fascinated by the human body and its complexities. Growing up in a small village in southern Italy, I had an insatiable curiosity about science and how we experience pain, heal and recover. 

November 1, 2024

“If there’s unified (Republican) government, we’re going to see lots of legislation, executive orders (and) judicial rulings that the majority of Marylanders are not going to like,” said Mark Graber, a ±¬ÁϹ«Éç law professor and a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics.

November 1, 2024

Researchers at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç have created a comprehensive genomic database, GLADdb, to improve diversity in genomics research by including extensive Latin American DNA data.

November 1, 2024

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Pharmacy hosted the free Pharmapreneurship Summit Oct. 8, bringing together thought leaders to engage with the university community, to propose bold and innovative ideas to address challenges and opportunities for the pharmacy world and to celebrate its successes.

October 31, 2024

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore broke ground on its $120 million, six-story School of Social Work (UMSSW) building that is slated to be the first net-zero emissions building within the University System of Maryland and downtown Baltimore. The 127,000-square-foot building will consolidate the school’s Master of Social Work and Doctor of Philosophy programs—currently dispersed across three locations—into one modern, flexible space.

October 31, 2024

For nearly three decades, Dr. Bruce E. Jarrell, M.D., FACS, has served the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Baltimore.

The kidney and liver transplant surgeon first joined the higher educational institution in 2005 as the vice dean of academic affairs. 

October 30, 2024

Although Bruen invalidates regulations inconsistent with the historical tradition of U.S. firearm regulation, states retain significant power to disarm dangerous individuals, argue Guha Krishnamurthi, professor at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law, and Peter N. Salib, professor at the University of Houston Law Center, in a recent article.

October 30, 2024

“I think that it’s an interesting way to take information that we already have and synthesize it into a picture we could use like an aid to support the family,” added Mutiat Onigbanjo, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine and medical director of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Pediatrics at Midtown in Baltimore.

October 30, 2024

Robyn Gilden, a nurse and environmental expert at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing, said additional risk factors for heat-related illness or death include whether a person works outside, whether they’re overweight, heart disease and age.

October 30, 2024

 Robyn Gilden, a nurse and environmental expert at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing, said additional risk factors for heat-related illness or death include whether a person works outside, whether they’re overweight and age.

October 29, 2024

Set to open in fall 2024, 4MLK is more than just a building—it’s a game-changer for West Baltimore. This 8-story, 250,000-square-foot facility will provide critical lab and office space for scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators working on the cutting edge of technology and medicine. Positioned at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Baltimore St., 4MLK is designed to be a beacon of collaboration.

October 29, 2024

The increase for the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç’s Francis King Carey School of Law comes after last year’s slight dip, and this year marks another steady increase for students at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

October 29, 2024

Community members and project leaders came together on Oct. 17 to break ground on the new ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Baltimore (UMB) School of Social Work. The 127,000-square-foot building will support programs that address the growing demand for social workers across the country while promoting cross-campus collaboration, environmentalism, and accessibility. 

October 29, 2024

A newly described stage of lymph node–like structures, known as tertiary lymphoid structures, identified in hepatic tumors following presurgical immunotherapy may be vital to successfully treating patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, according to a recent study published by Shu et al in Nature Immunology.

October 28, 2024

Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, shares 5 tips for clinicians on self care. While self care is a popular buzzword, it is harder to find tangible elements that you can implement as a clinician. Here's a good place to start.

October 27, 2024

Treatment adherence is a big challenge for patients with schizophrenia, as is the appropriate use of clozapine in treatment-resistant schizophrenia, said Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, professor and codirector of the Mental Health Program, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, School of Pharmacy. She also noted that telehealth hasn’t been as helpful for treating patients with schizophrenia as it has in other areas of care.

October 27, 2024

As a scientist who has spent my entire professional career developing countermeasures like vaccines against mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, we cannot ignore the danger posed by climate change and its effect on infectious diseases.

October 24, 2024

Rhea Roper Nedd has been named assistant vice president of equity, diversity, and inclusion at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore. She brings over a decade of experience in developing diversity programs to her new role. Most recently, she served as director of the Center for Student Diversity at Towson University in Maryland.

October 24, 2024

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine (UMSOM) has launched the Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective (R-HEALE) designed to train and place incoming medical students in Eastern Shore healthcare practices. 

October 24, 2024

We are now beginning to understand some of the mechanisms—psychological and biological—that give rise to nocebo effects. Studies in both laboratory and clinical settings, some of which are described in other chapters, document the important role of information and expectations in generating nocebo effects.

October 23, 2024

There’s so much more compassion from doctors and family members,” Shawn Kwatra of the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Medicine told me. Itch, he added, “is just not respected.” Perhaps doctors do not respect it because, until recently, they did not really understand it.

October 23, 2024

The Apache Stronghold has asked the Supreme Court to block Resolution Copper from digging up more than a billion tons of copper. If the mine moves forward, the land could subside, creating a depression more than 1,000 feet deep and almost 2 miles wide. “This is the route environmentalists should be taking in trying to establish these strategic alliances,” said Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç.

October 23, 2024

Anne Arundel County Public Schools are warning parents about a rise in whooping cough cases. The district has identified three cases since Sept. 10. Dr. Esther Liu, from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Baltimore Washington Medical Center, says whooping cough is preventable with vaccines.

October 22, 2024

In September, the FDA approved the first new schizophrenia treatment in decades.1 Cobenfy (xanomeline and trospium chloride) has a new mechanism of action, and there is a lot of potential for this drug in treating patients with schizophrenia, said Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, professor and codirector of the Mental Health Program, ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, School of Pharmacy.

October 22, 2024

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç School of Nursing (UMSON) Tuesday announced it was awarded a five-year, $5 million Health Equities Resource communities (HERC) grant from the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission (MCHRC) to support the West Baltimore Reducing Inequities in Cardiovascular and Mental Health Collaborative-Stronger Together (RICH 2.0).

October 22, 2024

Governor Wes Moore joined elected officials and leadership from the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Medical System for the groundbreaking of the UM Shore Regional Medical Center. The groundbreaking and major investment reinforces the Moore-Miller Administration’s commitment to improving healthcare access and support for Maryland’s rural communities.

October 18, 2024

Rural areas in Maryland have notoriously been medically underserved, according to the federal Health Resource and Services Administration. Students like Riaz are taking initiative to address these disparities and help close the medical disparity through the Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective.

October 18, 2024

The ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore broke ground Thursday on a major new School of Social Work building on the westside of downtown.School of Social Work Judy Postmus said in a statement that "it will be a vibrant community hub where students, faculty, and local partners come together." School of Social Work Judy Postmus said in a statement that "it will be a vibrant community hub where students, faculty, and local partners come together."

October 17, 2024

Taking care of your cognitive health ought to be—well, a no-brainer. According to a survey published in March, 87% of Americans are concerned about age-related memory loss and a decline in brain function as they grow older, yet only 32% believe they can take action to help control that trajectory.

October 15, 2024

A group of constitutional law experts told CBS News there's no specific prescription for such a political standoff in the Constitution itself.   

"The Constitution assumed a certain level of normality in our politics. But 'normal' may not describe our current politics," said ±¬ÁϹ«Éç constitutional law professor Mark Graber. 

October 8, 2024

Thousands of communities across the United States have sued pharmaceutical companies in the last decade, seeking accountability and money for an opioid crisis that has killed and forced governments to spend billions of dollars on drug treatment and other remediation efforts.

October 8, 2024

According to Jeff Sovern with the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç Francis King Carey School of Law, people usually don't read or understand the consumer contract's they're reading.

"If they don't understand something they should ask the provider and seller what it means and see what they say. Although if it comes to a dispute over what the provider says and what the contract says, the court will usually go with what the contract says," said Sovern. 

October 1, 2024

Inside a computer science office in College Park, a retired firefighter studying to become a physician assistant at the ±¬ÁϹ«Éç, Baltimore, was with a patient when suddenly someone next to him put that patient in a life-threatening situation.

August 27, 2024

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald J. Trump last week, he recounted speaking with the former president about "the issues that bind us together," including "having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic."Mr. Kennedy, a onetime environmental lawyer and longtime vaccine critic, insisted that a second Trump administration would lead to the elimination of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals in America's food and water supply.

August 27, 2024

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in academic radiology are under threat as anti-DEI legislation continues to be introduced to the U.S. Congress, according to a research letter published August 26 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

August 27, 2024

More older adults in the U.S. are turning to cannabis for stress relief, pain relief and help with other health issues. But new research suggests doing so could come with some heart risks. A large study published Feb. 28 in the Journal of the American Heart Association found a significant association between smoking, vaping or eating cannabis products and a higher risk of heart attack or stroke, even when controlling for other cardiovascular risk factors.

August 22, 2024

Some local universities and larger employers also believe the programs can help revitalize the areas around their campuses and offices.