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From left, Dr. Gerald Brandacher, Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, Dr. Richard Redett, Carisa Cooney, assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery, and Dr. Damon Cooney discuss the world's first total penis and scrotum transplant, performed on a U.S. soldier, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in April 2018.

Penis transplant performed on soldier at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore considered a success

November 11, 2019 at 11:00 a.m.

More than a year and a half after surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital performed a complex genital transplant on a soldier who also lost his legs in a bomb blast...

Police outside the University of Maryland Medical Center, where an employee was shot Monday morning.

Employee shot at University of Maryland hospital in Baltimore; suspect charged with attempted murder

August 21, 2019 at 4:26 p.m.

A 24-year-old employee of the University of Maryland School of Medicine is in critical but stable condition after he was shot outside the university’s downtown Baltimore hospital Monday morning, police...

Woman found outside Baltimore hospital in gown and socks was experiencing psychotic episode, her lawyer says

August 22, 2019 at 2:25 a.m.

The attorney for a woman left outside a Baltimore hospital wearing only a patient gown and socks on a cold night last week said the medical institution turned its back...

Baltimore hospital apologizes to discharged patient found on street in hospital gown

August 22, 2019 at 2:21 a.m.

The University of Maryland Medical Center's top executive apologized to a patient who was discharged and found on the street wearing only a thin hospital gown and socks outside its...

Just what is the Grinch? Could coral be responsible for Rudolph's nose? Ebenezer Scrooge certainly exuded some negative energy.

Rudolph, why is your nose so bright? Scientists at Johns Hopkins have an idea

August 22, 2019 at 2:06 a.m.

Holy glowing genes, Rudolph! If we didn’t already know that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was special, that shiny proboscis of his could have resulted from the one-in-a-million transfer of genetic...

New high-risk breast cancer clinic aims to educate about the disease

August 19, 2019 at 3:41 a.m.

Four members of Jackie Dressel's family have been diagnosed with breast cancer, including her mother, who died of the disease in her mid-30s. Dressel's doctor sent her to be tested...

Younger people increasingly at risk for colorectal cancer

August 19, 2019 at 3:39 a.m.

A study published recently in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that while overall rates of colorectal cancer have been declining for decades in the United States, the...

Rare identical triplets born to Baltimore couple

August 19, 2019 at 3:19 a.m.

The odds of conceiving identical triplets without fertility drugs may be as low as one in a million. But that's not the math that strikes Thomas Hewitt and his wife,...

The receiving area of the Baltimore City Detention Center.

Baltimore jail complex again faces lawsuit over health care

June 29, 2019 at 5:51 p.m.

Despite decades of lawsuits and settlements aimed at forcing the Baltimore City Detention Center to provide proper health care to those recently arrested or serving short sentences, advocates for detainees...

The Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance examined demographic trends.

Report examines why residents stay in and leave Baltimore

June 30, 2019 at 9:33 p.m.

More families are still leaving Baltimore than moving in, and while many of the reasons are well known, a new analysis of where they land and why has made city...

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