ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers promised to clean up the state’s medical laboratories last year, after reports of negligence that may have tainted hundreds of HIV and hepatitis-C tests at Maryland General Hospital

ANNAPOLIS – Brian Coble, 12, has to prick his finger several times daily and constantly wear an insulin pump just to stay alive — he would love nothing more than to be cured of his juvenile diabetes

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland House voted Thursday to earmark $70 million annually to help some of the nearly 740,000 uninsured Marylanders get the medical care they need

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Insurance Administration does not take insurance company profits into account when it decides to allow rate increases, a state insurance official told the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – After an unexpected vaccine shortage kicked off a tumultuous, ongoing flu season, some Maryland lawmakers want to ensure the state is more prepared in the future

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ANNAPOLIS – Importing drugs from Canada would be vastly cheaper than buying them in the United States, but “just as safe as if they were coming out of Indianapolis,” said backers of prescription-drug reform bills Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – The House Health and Government Operations Committee will hold hearings for six prescription drug bills Tuesday, including two proposing that the state import Canadian prescription drugs

ANNAPOLIS – Gwendolyn Britt, a Democratic state senator from Prince George’s County, often walks by a collage of drawings in a tunnel leading from the State House to her office

ANNAPOLIS – Despite passing a malpractice reform bill during a recent special legislative session, many Maryland lawmakers agree with lobbyists and doctors’ advocates that the new law will not adequately solve the state’s medical liability crisis in the long run