WASHINGTON – As Maryland’s Chlamydia rate pushes past the national average, nurses like Randy Epstein weigh which is worse — that the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported more than 20,000 cases of the sexually transmitted disease statewide in 2009 or that a potentially higher number of Maryland teens have no idea they are infected

WASHINGTON – When doctors told George Ann Blough she had ovarian cancer, the Catonsville native was certain the fall of 1990 would be her last

WASHINGTON – After years of placing her electric toothbrush on her bathroom sink top, Lisa Morris decided to find a more creative place to store it

WASHINGTON – President Obama signaled in his State of the Union address that Democrats and Republicans might find common ground on health care reform with the issue of medical malpractice, but experts remain far apart on how the Congress should tackle the issue

WASHINGTON – Elmo came to Washington Thursday, to the delight of more than two dozen first-grade students, to help introduce a new partnership between the National Children’s Museum and Sesame Street designed to create an interactive learning experience for the region’s youngsters

WASHINGTON – Seasonal flu is on the rise in Maryland, particularly in low-income and minority communities — a reality the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is fighting with a media campaign

WASHINGTON – Despite passage of the Patients’ Rights Repeal Act Wednesday, the Republican-backed bill overturning last year’s health care reforms has little chance of success in the Democrat-led Senate

BALTIMORE – Willie Flowers surveys the fast-food-filled intersection of Reisterstown Road and Cold Spring Lane in West Baltimore — an area he calls, “the corner of death