ANNAPOLIS – Struggling to cope with stubbornly high rates of sexually transmitted diseases, public health officials in Baltimore are proposing a novel plan to allow people with chlamydia and gonorrhea to give medication to their sexual partners even if the partners have not first been examined by a health care worker

ANNAPOLIS – Before her arrest three years ago, the first thing Leslie Miller did when she woke up each morning was reach for her bong and take four or five tokes of marijuana

ANNAPOLIS – The first thing Leslie Miller does when she wakes up each morning is reach for her bong and take four or five tokes of marijuana

ANNAPOLIS – With more than half of the legislative session over, state and local lawmakers from Prince George’s County are still groping for a solution to the financial woes of the county-owned Prince George’s Hospital Center, which has been plagued by years of mismanagement

ANNAPOLIS – They interrupted untold thousands of dinners during last fall’s election season

ANNAPOLIS – A Baltimore legislator is proposing a two-year pilot program to screen some 500 men who have no health insurance for prostate cancer, which for Maryland men is the most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death

ANNAPOLIS – Grantley Adams fears he will loose his job and have to relocate if Prince George’s Hospital Center closes

ANNAPOLIS – Lorraine Burdette was not worried when the radiologist called her to his office to discuss results of her full body computed tomography scan, also known as CT scan

ANNAPOLIS -Despite progress in closing the health care gap between minorities and whites, a legislative panel says millions of dollars is needed to ensure better access and better quality health care in minority communities

ANNAPOLIS – The move to the death penalty in Maryland picked up momentum Thursday as legislators unveiled a bill to ban capital punishment, and Gov