ANNAPOLIS – Reported chlamydia cases in Maryland jumped by 57 percent from 1997 to 2006, and one state health official called it “the tip of the iceberg” for the often symptom-less sexually transmitted disease

ANNAPOLIS – Gay-rights groups vowed to take their fight to the Maryland legislature Tuesday after the state’s highest court upheld a state law banning same-sex marriage

ANNAPOLIS – The state should spend at least $60 million to extend dental coverage to all Maryland children, according to a special committee report presented to the state health department this week

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland officials said a recent decision by federal Medicaid administrators to stop reimbursing states for the cost of transporting disabled students to and from school is part of a “mean-spirited,” months-long trend to “dump additional costs onto the states

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland recorded its first-ever rabid bear last month, and the rabid dog, foaming at the mouth and baring its teeth, figures prominently in the popular imagination

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s rates of teen births and infant mortality have both dropped since 1997, but the number of underweight babies born in the state in the same time has gone up, according to a report presented Tuesday to lawmakers

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ANNAPOLIS – The General Assembly began consideration of one of the thorniest and most expensive issues to come before it this year as a House committee opened hearings Friday on legislation to make health care more affordable and more accessible