ANNAPOLIS – Medical marijuana legislation is nearly dead this year, and supportive lawmakers have little hope they can resurrect it

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers seem to have their own agenda for an issue that’s spent months on the national stage: controlling the rising cost of prescription drugs

ANNAPOLIS – Jacquelyn Leach has been obese her entire life

ANNAPOLIS – The state abortion battle hit a Senate committee Wednesday with testimony on three bills aimed at restricting a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland legislators are considering a bill to provide poor, uninsured women undergoing mastectomies with coverage for breast reconstructive surgery

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Senate Thursday approved a change to the massage therapy law to exempt energy-based therapists

ANNAPOLIS – With the failure of a bill to permit the medical use of marijuana likely this year, supportive lawmakers are trying to send the issue to voters

ANNAPOLIS – Proponents of a bill decriminalizing the medical use of marijuana had their hopes dashed Friday when the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee killed the bill

ANNAPOLIS – All hospitals and health care facilities would be required to tell rape survivors about the “morning-after pill” under a bill heard Thursday in a House committee

ANNAPOLIS – It doesn’t look good for proponents of a bill to remove criminal penalties for ill patients who use pot with their doctor’sapproval