Your weekly dose of health news, tips and events for Maryland.
 Wednesday, Feb 21 Just in case you needed a legitimate excuse to be messy, there's a new study that says cleaning may actually be bad for your health. |
| America is well aware of its opioid epidemic, but there's a hidden crisis brewing with prescription sedatives such as Xanax and Valium, a new review warns. |
|
| More than half of gun owners do not safely store all their guns, according to a new survey of 1,444 gun owners by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
|
| At auditions for "This is My Brave," a show aimed at ending the stigma associated with mental illness, people used poetry, music or storytelling skills to communicate their experiences coping with mental illness. |
|
| Itineris and Sam's Canterbury Cafe are working to employ young adults with autism. There's a burgeoning national movement to get more people with developmentally disabilities into the workplace. |
|
| To help you navigate a world where beer and Bordeaux are a plenty, we've rounded up stories about how drinking affects our health. |
|
| Integrace Copper Ridge has a monthly social club for people with dementia, who might have trouble communicating and carrying on a conversation as they once could. |
|
| A comparison of health costs across five states by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement found that Maryland costs in Maryland were on average 16 percent lower. |
|
|
