ANNAPOLIS – Cotton swab users beware: flagrant violation of manufacturers’ warnings could leave you with wadding in your ear

ANNAPOLIS – Reused “single-use” medical devices accounted for less than 1 percent of first-quarter 2000 cases of possible device malfunctions, according to an analysis of newly released Food and Drug Administration data

ANNAPOLIS – A Maryland manufacturer’s infant warmer system pops up on a Food and Drug Administration database of medical device problems more than 40 times since 1992, but that doesn’t mean the device is faulty

WASHINGTON- Maryland-based contractors earned $11

ANNAPOLIS – Like special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on TV’s “X- Files,” Craig Rovelstad and Wendy Irminger are working together on a flying- object mystery

ANNAPOLIS – Small suburban airports are increasingly at odds with development interests in Maryland as the surging economy provides landowners with strong incentives to cash in their airports or the open spaces around them

WESTMINSTER – At 5 feet 3 inches and 145 pounds Timothy Schlauch doesn’t resemble the muscle-rippled prison guards portrayed in the movies

WASHINGTON – Annapolis and Chestertown are among the country’s 50 best places for older adults to live, according to the May/June issue of Modern Maturity magazine

WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Boehner, director of the Montgomery County Area Agency on Aging, recalls how members of her grandparents’ generation often expected to spend their final years in what her aunt called “the old age home

WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland residents aged 65 and older will grow 67 percent by 2020 and the aging trend will be felt in every part of the state, according to the Maryland Office of Planning