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Less than a year after closing the biggest deal in its history to expand to Europe, Walgreens Boots Alliance is charging ahead with a new U.S. acquisition despite being in the middle of a massive restructuring. The Deerfield-based company said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Rite Aid, America's...

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For more than a year, Baltimore Sun reporterAndrea K. McDanielsand photographerLloyd Foxhave examined the unseen impact of violence on children, caregivers and victims relatives in the Baltimore area. McDaniels wrote the articles while participating inThe California Endowment Health Journalism...

A two-month investigation by The Baltimore Sun highlighted troubles at a LifeLine Inc. group home for disabled foster children, where a 10-year-old died in July. The Sun showed that state regulators were left in the dark about significant problems at LifeLine, including the founders conviction...

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Despite declaring war against heroin, Harford County Executive Barry Glassman is not concerned that the arrival of medical marijuana in Maryland will usher in a slippery slope for more cannabis use. As a state senator last year, Glassman supported bills allowing medical marijuana and the decriminalization...

At a town hall meeting last week, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman criticized the Howard County Public School System's communication with parents about mold in school buildings. "I do believe the school system has not handled the issue well," Kittleman said. "If you don't talk openly, you...

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When a victim of a gunshot or stab wound arrives at an emergency room in cardiac arrest, doctors have mere minutes to open the patient's chest and wrap their hands around the heart to get it pumping again. The odds are against survival: About 95 percent die. Researchers at the University of Maryland...

After more than 30 years of planning a consolidated hub for its lab work, the U.S. Army Public Health Center broke ground Thursday on its new laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground. The Army's Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, called the groundbreaking for the Public Health Center lab "a...

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health has received enough of the FluMist vaccine to administer it free to students at 16 county elementary schools beginning next week. Students at the following schools whose parents have already signed consent forms will be given the vaccine beginning Monday....

Downtown Bel Air is decked out in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and town officials recognized that effort this week, while also offering some sobering figures about Harford County's high cancer rates. At Monday night's town meeting, the Board of Town Commissioners presented a proclamation...

The American Cancer Society now recommends that women wait to begin annual mammograms until age 45 rather than 40, advice that conflicts with other recommendations, leading some to worry that it will confuse women who might need the test. While several professional societies continue to recommend...

Katy Wolfe sometimes gets quizzical looks from friends and classmates when she talks about her athletic pursuits. When people think of sports, they tend to imagine soccer, football, basketball and lacrosse. But this Ellicott City teenager is a competitive climber. "It's hard to explain," said Wolfe,...

Baltimore's health commissioner didn't just tell legislators Tuesday how to save a person who has overdosed on heroin. She showed them. In an Annapolis committee room, Dr. Leana Wen leaned over her deputy, Olivia Farrow, who slumped back in her chair as if unconscious. As lawmakers watched, Wen...

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