ANNAPOLIS – Cotton swab users beware: flagrant violation of manufacturers’ warnings could leave you with wadding in your ear

ANNAPOLIS – A Maryland manufacturer’s infant warmer system pops up on a Food and Drug Administration database of medical device problems more than 40 times since 1992, but that doesn’t mean the device is faulty

ANNAPOLIS – Reused “single-use” medical devices accounted for less than 1 percent of first-quarter 2000 cases of possible device malfunctions, according to an analysis of newly released Food and Drug Administration data

ANNAPOLIS – Montgomery County is finding it increasingly easy to get wishes granted by the Maryland General Assembly, at the same time Baltimore struggled this session to get 16 percent of the $49

ROCKVILLE – Plenty of Maryland’s budget is headed toward Montgomery County thanks to state legislators working together, said County Executive Douglas M

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland senators reversed themselves Thursday, approving by one vote a bill to allow nurse practitioners to serve as primary-care providers after nearly killing the bill by two votes the previous day

ANNAPOLIS – If its leaders have their way, the General Assembly could overturn a recent Maryland Court of Appeals ruling barring health maintenance organizations from recovering money from patients who have received personal injury settlements

ANNAPOLIS – Dave Frieman wishes certain members of the Maryland House of Delegates would get sick

ANNAPOLIS – An overwhelming majority of Maryland senators agreed Thursday to find the cure for the disease that’s infecting the state’s entire health care industry – the increasing shortage of qualified nurses

ANNAPOLIS – Anti-abortion activists lined up behind a ban on fetal tissue research, while critics called the plan a backdoor attempt to ban abortion at a Maryland House hearing this week