| Some nights, the Rev. Emora T. Brannan just can't make himself go to bed. The self-proclaimed night owl browses the Internet, reads a book and even makes up an excuse to walk the dog — anything but go to sleep. When violence leads to sleep problems in children |
| Daylight saving time is coming; start sleeping better now Sleep is good for you, and pleasant too, but for many people that's not enough: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 1 in 3 Americans do not get enough sleep. Sleep awareness event promotes importance of getting Z's |
| When scientists in Brazil suspected a link between a troubling upswing in the birth defect microcephaly and the mosquito-borne Zika virus last fall, the hunt began for proof. Johns Hopkins neuroscientists and their partners in Florida and Atlanta now say they've discovered a big clue. Studying how Zika virus may cause microcephaly |
| A new rating from Consumer Reports has found many large teaching hospitals around the country still appear to be doing a poor job controlling spread of a dangerous kind of bacterial infection called Clostridium difficile, or C.diff., even as they make improvements in other hospital-acquired infectio... Maryland hospitals aren't reporting all errors and complications, experts say |
| The University of Maryland Medical System shared preliminary designs with the city Thursday for a $50 million-plus outpatient center in midtown Baltimore as it grows on the campus of the former community hospital. UMMS plans ambulatory care center at Maryland General Hospital site |