WASHINGTON – The country’s organ-sharing network withdrew its threat Friday to demote Maryland on its kidney waiting-list after the state showed good progress in repaying its “kidney debt” this year

WASHINGTON – Maryland residents got fatter faster than residents of most other states in the nation in the 1990s, according to a recent report

WASHINGTON – There is no indication yet that the deadly West Nile virus has infected humans in Maryland, after the discovery of an infected bird in Baltimore, state health officials said

WASHINGTON – State health officials are outraged by what they call an “inaccurate and misleading” Census Bureau report that claims the number of children with Medicaid coverage in Maryland dropped sharply

WASHINGTON – The number of births to Maryland girls ages15-19 dropped 19

WASHINGTON – Chenita Smithwick finds more and more women walking into her Baltimore office every day

WASHINGTON – State officials will test a group of 15 crows that were found dead in Howard County to see if they carried the deadly West Nile virus, which has killed five people in the New York City area since August

WASHINGTON – Syphilis cases on the Eastern Shore rose sharply from 1996 to 1998, even as cases recorded for the entire state dropped for the first time in five years

WASHINGTON – More than half of the 160,000 people who joined the ranks of the uninsured in Maryland last year were children under 18, according to the latest Census Bureau figures

WASHINGTON – Maryland had the fourth-highest rate of new AIDS cases in the nation in 1998, up from sixth the year before, according to state and federal health officials