Policy Hits Home for Kidney Patients Whose Lives Hang in the Balance

WASHINGTON – Sally Roberts Mayer and Stanley Mazur are in a race for their lives — a race for which they mostly have to sit and wait

Anti-Abortion Internet Site Turns Focus on Maryland Doctors

WASHINGTON – Abortion-rights supporters in Maryland had little time last week to celebrate a $107 million Oregon verdict against an anti-abortion web site that has now turned its focus on doctors here

Appeals Court Gives PG Man Go-ahead in Racial Harassment Suit

WASHINGTON – A Prince George’s County black man can sue his former employer for “forced termination” after a company supervisor reportedly used racial slurs and compared the man to a “dumb monkey,” a federal appeals court said

Measure Aims to Jump-Start Market for Long-term Care Coverage

WASHINGTON – Two Maryland legislators are backing bills that they hope will jump-start the market for long-term health care insurance by requiring government agencies to offer the benefit to federal workers, retirees and their families

Maryland Ranks Eighth in Nation for Abortion Rights

WASHINGTON – Maryland ranks eighth in the nation for protecting abortion and reproductive rights, according to a report released Thursday by the National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action League Foundation