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Science and medicine

Belinda Robinson participated in a Johns Hopkins Medicine study to see if a common diabetes drug could help her regrow hair after she was diagnosed with alopecia.
A Hopkins doctor is using diabetes medicine to help Black women fight hair loss
A common drug used to treat diabetes may also help Black women with a type of alopecia, a Johns Hopkins scientist found.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Johns Hopkins violated Americans with Disabilities Act during pandemic, federal complaint says
Johns Hopkins Health System violated the Americans with Disabilities Act during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Emergent Bio Solutions was given federal approval to use its smallpox vaccine against mpox.
Emergent gets go-ahead for mpox vaccine, but it won’t be made in Baltimore
Gaithersburg-based Emergent BioSolutions got approval to make more smallpox vaccine for use against mpox, but it won’t be produced in Baltimore.
Water fountains in public school(Photo by Shan Wallace/The Baltimore Banner)
Maryland found ‘forever chemicals’ in school water fountains. Now what?
Maryland officials found the insidious chemicals in water at 34 schools.
Students training at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore will have some of their tuition covered, thanks to a philanthropic gift. The hospital is encouraging them to train to become primary care doctors and practice in the city.
Sinai Hospital’s effort to train more doctors gets a multimillion-dollar boost
The Baltimore hospital will use a $10 million gift to help pay tuition for medical students training there.

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Supporters hold “We’re Voting Yes” signs at a reproductive rights press event on Lawyers Mall outside the Maryland State House in January.
Maryland isn’t the only state where abortion is on the fall ballot. Here are the others.
Measures to protect access have already qualified to go before voters this year in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and South Dakota. Meanwhile, competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska.
M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman found this stool after Hurricane Agnes in 1972. He used it to sit by the streams as his students gathered information for their research.
Wolman Run reflects values of its namesake
A stream in Oregon Ridge has been named after “Reds” Wolman, the famed Johns Hopkins scientist who would have turned 100 this week.
A vial of smallpox/monkeypox vaccine is seen during a vaccination event at the Pride Center on July 12, 2022 in Wilton Manors, Florida. The center is offering the free smallpox/monkeypox vaccinations from the Florida Department of Health in Broward County as South Florida leads the state in the number of people infected.
WHO declares mpox a global health emergency. Here’s what Marylanders need to know.
Marylanders are safe for now as the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus could cross borders.
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer dances across the stage before speaking at a campaign event in support of gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore at Bowie State University, in Bowie on Nov. 7, 2022.
U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer recovering from ‘mild ischemic stroke,’ spokesperson says
The Democrat, who is 85, will likely return to his normal schedule next week and has responded well to treatment. He did not have any lingering symptoms from the stroke on Sunday night, according to Deputy Chief of Staff Margaret Mulkerrin.
The Perseid meteor shower can feature up to 100 visible meteors per hour, plus larger, brighter fireballs.
How and when to view the Perseid meteor shower from Baltimore
The astronomical spectacle is expected to be most visible from the northern hemisphere Aug. 11-12.

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From left: Vicki Mathew, Cate Cochran and Maya Moorthy conduct field research in Wapusk National Park outside Churchill, Canada in August of 2022.
These Baltimore high schoolers are traveling somewhere few humans ever go — for science
Students from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and the Park School are headed to one of the most remote places in the world to study climate change.
Crowds and long lines form inside BWI after a global tech outage grounded all flights on Friday, July 19, 2024.
Global outage dinged BWI, Maryland hospitals, government and courts
Marylanders awoke Friday to widespread reports of a global technology outage disrupting transportation, courts, tolls, some of the state’s hospital systems and local governments.
COVID-19 vaccines are advertised at pharmacies across the region, but they're in short supply.
Is COVID rising in Maryland? Here’s what we know
The limited data suggests COVID-19 is spreading in Maryland during this crazy-hot summer.
A monitor showing a photo of the “Pillars of Creation,” captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, hangs over the front lobby of the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus on May 15, 2024.
Inside the Baltimore office where breathtaking views of the universe begin
The only people on Earth who regularly communicate with James Webb Space Telescope work in a nondescript concrete office building much closer to home — on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore.
The James Webb Space Telescope observed the “Penguin,” a faraway galaxy. The telescope is operated by the Space Science Telescope Institute, based on the Johns Hopkins University campus.
On second anniversary, James Webb Space Telescope shows a galactic penguin
The images released today show a distorted spiral galaxy, nicknamed the "Penguin” because it looks like it has a penguin’s beak, eye, and chest or tail, and an elliptical galaxy, nicknamed the "Egg.”

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The Maryland Department of Health offices in Baltimore.
Maryland has tons of new mental health care providers. Are they for real?
For all the new providers, relatively few new patients are being served.
A close-up of some of Loudy Puff Boyz and Gurlz Klub's strains of cannabis plants.
Smoking in the name of science: What cannabis research could tell us next year
“The smoke box” at the Cannabis Science Lab in Baltimore is about as fancy as its nickname, but it’s in one of the most advanced marijuana research labs in the country.
Old Ellicott City is seen on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024.
7 things to do in Howard County: From the Ladybug Music Festival to a Pollinator Fest
A presidential debate watch party and a free musical event featuring women-led groups are among the things to do in Howard County for the last week of June 2024.
Emergent BioSolutions will sell its remaining plant in Baltimore after a tumultuous time that began with botched COVID vaccines.
Emergent to exit Baltimore after years of tumult stemming from botched COVID-19 vaccine
Emergent BioSolutions, known for botching millions of doses of COVID vaccine, will exit Baltimore entirely with sale of another plant.
Renovated, expanded Tuerk House in Baltimore aims to help assist people struggling with addiction and mental illness.
Commentary: Here are solutions for Baltimore’s overdose crisis
City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.