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May 13, 2026

, PhD, professor and associate dean for students at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, who was not involved in the study, also spoke with MNT

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Andrew Coop, PhD,

School of Pharmacy

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May 12, 2026

Scientists are still learning how magnesium supplements affect blood pressure. So far, results are most promising for people with abnormally high blood pressure who are deficient in the mineral, said Jocelyn Edwards, Pharm.D, a clinical assistant professor of cardiology at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Jocelyn Edwards, PharmD

School of Pharmacy

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May 12, 2026

“It can be really easy to think ‘I’m young, I’m healthy, I don’t need it,’” said Dr. Kyle Fischer, a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Kyle Fischer, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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May 12, 2026

“At the American Heart Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives — for everyone, everywhere,” said Dr. Esa Davis, member of the American Heart Association’s Greater Maryland Board of Directors and senior associate dean for population and community medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Esa Matius Davis, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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May 11, 2026

Dr. Kirsten Lyke works at the 91大神 School of Medicine and is the director of the Vector-borne Diseases and Challenge Unit at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health. She told 7News it is unlikely hantavirus escalates into anything like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Kirsten Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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May 10, 2026

“Osteoporosis is a disorder of bone quality and strength that increases the susceptibility for fractures,” explained Dr. Rozalina McCoy, an endocrinologist and associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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May 8, 2026

“We work very closely educating the faculty,” Morris said. “Just because you’re a great surgeon or a great engineer doesn’t mean you’re a great businessperson.”

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Mary M. Morris

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May 8, 2026

Column co-authored by Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, a professor at the 91大神 School of Nursing, the associate dean of research and the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz chair in Gerontology. She is currently the co-editor of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

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Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP

School of Nursing

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May 8, 2026

There’s no specific treatment or cure, said Dr. Kirsten Lyke, an infectious disease expert in the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Kirsten Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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May 7, 2026

None of the people in the virtual courtroom had attorneys to represent them. All they had was David de Alva, an aspiring immigration lawyer who decided to bear witness to a world upended by the Trump administration. 

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Cori Alonso-Yoder

Carey School of Law

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May 7, 2026

The 91大神 School of Medicine is expanding an initiative aimed at addressing the physician shortage on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, backed by more than $4 million in new philanthropic support.

 

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May 7, 2026

Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center, UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, and 91大神 School of Medicine recently devised a new brain-based index that could be used to track early risk factors that, in specific people, may lead to the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 

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May 7, 2026

A deadly outbreak of suspected hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship off the coast of West Africa this month has raised concerns about disease spread during the summer travel season. 

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Wilbur Chen, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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May 5, 2026

“Osteoporosis is a disorder of bone quality and strength that increases the susceptibility for fractures,” explained Dr. Rozalina McCoy, an endocrinologist and associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Rozalina McCoy, MD

School of Medicine

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May 5, 2026

In addition to the expected benefit of weight loss on the pathophysiology of psoriasis, the senior author of the Special Communication, Andrew Blauvelt, MD, adjunct professor of dermatology at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, and the principal of Blauvelt Consulting in Annapolis, Maryland, cited evidence that GLP-1 RAs make antipsoriatic therapies “work better.”

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Andrew Blauvelt, MD, MBA

School of Medicine

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May 4, 2026

While newer mental health agents may offer mechanistic advantages or improved tolerability, prescribing decisions in older patients remain constrained by frailty, polypharmacy, and limited geriatric-specific data, said , professor and Parke-Davis Chair in geriatric pharmacotherapy at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.

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Nicole Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, FASCP

School of Pharmacy

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May 4, 2026

Led by Ryan M. Pearson, an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences and director of the Bio- and Nano-Technology Center at UMSOP, the team is testing a new approach using custom-designed, biodegradable nanoparticles to target and reprogram immune cell metabolism. These nanoparticles are engineered to carry allergens, which may help the body build tolerance by reducing harmful immune responses without compromising the entire immune system.

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Ryan M. Pearson, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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May 1, 2026

The Supreme Court’s decision will not affect Maryland very much because the main application is in states that want to gerrymander in favor of white Republicans, said Mark Graber, a constitutional law professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 30, 2026

“We found that in the absence of HRG1, the red blood cells that are produced are sub-optimal, which means that when the system is stressed and must make more red blood cells than usual, they may have a hard time doing so without HRG1,” Iqbal Hamza, PhD, the study’s senior author and a professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM), said. 

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Iqbal Hamza, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 30, 2026

Jennie Law, a 91大神 School of Medicine associate professor, said Ceja’s disease has considerably impacted her quality of life with frequent hospital visits and reliance on regular blood transfusions for disease management. 

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Jennie Law, MD

School of Medicine

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April 29, 2026

The Supreme Court weakened a Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress, striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana. On WBAL News Now at 6, WBAL’s Robert Lang gets reaction to the decision from 91大神, Carey School of Law Professor Mark Graber.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 29, 2026

“It makes it much harder to prove discrimination with voting districts, with the burden that’s been set,” Graber said.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 29, 2026

“The overall take home message of the study is that your ZIP code might matter just as much as your genetic code for outcomes after hip fracture,” Jason R. Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD, associate professor in the department of physical therapy and rehabilitation science and the department of epidemiology and public health, as well as director of 91大神 School of Medicine’s Center for Disability Justice, told Healio. 

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Jason R. Falvey, PT, DPT, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 29, 2026

Dr. Kelly Dunn, a professor in the departments of psychiatry and neurobiology at the 91大神, Baltimore, studies medication-based treatments for opioid use disorder and has been involved in several clinical trials to evaluate different formulations and doses of buprenorphine to treat opioid use and withdrawal.

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Kelly Dunn, PhD, MBA

School of Medicine

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April 29, 2026

Over a half hour, a pale pink collection of stem cells immersed in a preservative dripped from a small bag through a line into Jessica Ceja’s arm.

They were her cells, reengineered in a New Jersey lab with one goal in mind: a cure for her painful and destructive sickle cell disease.

This was her chance to “just be normal,” the 41-year-old said from her hospital bed at the 91大神 Medical Center in Baltimore.

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Jennie Law, MD

School of Medicine

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Silver Spring woman becomes first Montgomery County resident to receive rare stem cell therapy for sickle cell

April 29, 2026

“Sickle cells can block blood flow to nearly every organ, causing excruciating pain—like having a migraine throughout the entire body, affecting the bones, back, limbs and chest,” said Dr. Mark T. Gladwin, a leading investigator on sickle cell research and dean of the where Ceja received her stem cell therapy.

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Mark Gladwin, MD

Carey School of Law

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April 29, 2026

Dr. Kelly Dunn, a professor in the departments of psychiatry and neurobiology at the 91大神, Baltimore, studies medication-based treatments for opioid use disorder and has been involved in several clinical trials to evaluate different formulations and doses of buprenorphine to treat opioid use and withdrawal.

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Kelly E. Dunn, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 28, 2026

Michael Vesely, a counterterrorism expert with the 91大神's Center for Cyber, Health, and Hazard Strategies, said the internet can fuel "lone wolf" attackers.  

"They get caught in echo chambers where they're unlikely to contextualize what they're seeing or hearing," Vesely said.

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Michael Vesely, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 27, 2026

A few months ago, I (Colloca) was asked by a reporter to comment on the role of the nocebo phenomenon in Havana Syndrome. The reporter was referring to a set of symptoms experienced mostly by government officials and military personnel that first occurred at the U.S. Embassy in Havana.

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 23, 2026

Now, new 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) research has found a missing piece to the puzzle: In the final stages of their maturation, red blood cells can import heme, a crucial, iron-containing component of hemoglobin, from other cells. 

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Dr. Iqbal Hamza, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 23, 2026

A recent report and lab visit by Military Times spotlighted a breakthrough effort funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and developed by biotech firm Kalocyte in collaboration with researchers at the 91大神, Baltimore. Their work centers on an ambitious goal: freeze-dried, shelf-stable synthetic blood that can be carried into combat zones, disaster sites, and remote emergencies, and reconstituted for transfusion within minutes. 

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April 23, 2026

“It could lead to some interesting outcomes,” said Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the 91大神.

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Robert Percival JD

Carey School of Law

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April 22, 2026

Fox 45 spoke with Dr. Matthew Laurens, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at the 91大神 Medical Center and 91大神 School of Medicine to explain the risk and what Marylander should know about the virus.

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Dr. Matthew Laurens

School of Medicine

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April 22, 2026

Doctors at the 91大神 School of Medicine are tracking a nationwide rise in measles cases and how it will impact overall health and the economy.

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Dr. Meagan Fitzpatrick

School of Medicine

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April 21, 2026

Early clinical deterioration requiring escalation in care occurred in 3.6% of patients in the emergency department (ED), with nearly half of these events occurring while patients were still in the ED. Each additional hour of boarding was associated with an increased risk for deterioration, and 28-day mortality rates were more than threefold higher among patients with deterioration.

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Nicholas W. Rizer, MD

School of Medicine

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April 21, 2026

The Obama administration estimated climate and health benefits would be worth between $55 billion and $93 billion annually by 2030, when the rule would have fully kicked in. That far outweighed the agency’s estimated annual compliance costs.

“There just seems to be an utter disregard for any benefits the Clean Air Act can achieve,” said Robert Percival, head of the environmental law program at the 91大神, regarding the justices’ discussion.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 21, 2026

Kathleen Hoke, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said these rulings might have played into the city’s decision to settle with Hanover Armory.

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 21, 2026

“These include factors such as turnover time and instrument counts,” Woodworth says. “The modern operating environment is complex, including equipment, tasks and workflows.”

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Graeme F. Woodworth, MD, FAANS, FACS

School of Medicine

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April 20, 2026

Adding an extra antibiotic powder doesn’t further reduce a person’s risk of infection during surgery to repair complex bone fractures, a new study says.

People had about the same rate of post-surgery infections whether doctors sprinkled one or two antibiotic powders into their surgical wound, researchers reported April 15 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Nathan N. O'Hara, PhD, MHA

School of Medicine

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April 20, 2026

Researchers from the 91大神 have identified thinking, fatigue and mood as behaviors associated with insomnia. Which means that, even if you think you might be getting enough sleep, subtle behaviors like mood swings and zoning out could indicate significant sleep deprivation.

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Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 20, 2026

When the Supreme Court blocked President Barack Obama’s signature climate regulation a decade ago, conservative justices were worried about the cost to industry, according to private memos reported by The New York Times.

Chief Justice John Roberts called it “the most expensive regulation ever imposed,” repeating a refrain common among critics of Obama’s Clean Power Plan. 

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 17, 2026

"A good deal of 25th Amendment talk is straight-out political," Mark Graber, a law professor at the 91大神, told DW. "It's designed to identify the Republican Party with Donald Trump in a way that will make it not easy for them to back off."

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 17, 2026

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Supreme Court ruled 8-0 Friday in favor of the oil company Chevron, finding that an environmental lawsuit against it should be fought in federal court.

The case came to justices after a Louisiana state court jury handed down a $745 million verdict in favor of coastal communities, who alleged that oil and gas operations damaged their wetlands.

 

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 16, 2026

Sarina Hanfling, research coordinator for Rachel Rubin, MD, PLLC, and a medical student at the 91大神 School of Medicine, is featured in this story.

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Sarina Hanfling

School of Medicine

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April 15, 2026

The upcoming nearly $300 million effort to turn a portion of downtown Baltimore into a college town will be led by a City Hall veteran. Liz Koontz, former assistant deputy mayor for community and economic development, will start Monday as director of the 91大神, Baltimore's UniverCity District Partnership.

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Liz Koontz
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April 14, 2026

CVS Health is partnering with the 91大神 School of Pharmacy to enhance pharmacy operations, an initiative that will help show how AI can augment the pharmacist’s role.

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April 14, 2026

On Jan. 20, 2025, his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States would henceforth recognize only two sexes, male and female. Trump framed the move as one meant to protect the dignity, safety, and well-being of women. 

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Margaret McCarthy, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 14, 2026

Physician’s Weekly also spoke with Charlotte Nwogwugwu, DrPH, MPH, MSN-PMHNP, director of the Office of Global Health, School of Nursing, 91大神, about how her work with the BRAVE Project brought mental healthcare to rural HIV clinics in Nigeria. Dr. Nwogwugwu was not affiliated with the review but has extensive experience integrating mental healthcare into HIV clinics across international contexts.

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Charlotte Nwogwugwu, DrPH, MPH, MSN-PMHNP

School of Nursing

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April 14, 2026

Meanwhile, in Maryland, a state task force chaired by 91大神 School of Pharmacy professor Andrew Coop has proposed a phased, multi-pathway framework that would gradually expand access while building out regulatory infrastructure and safety oversight.

“We were asked to assess the future psychedelics in terms of access, in terms of legality, in terms of expungement, in terms of how Maryland should move forward,” Coop told IHP.

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Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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April 10, 2026

“Regardless of personal ideologies or views on various issues, she really looks for consensus,” said Jeanette Ortiz, director of government affairs at the 91大神, Baltimore, and a longtime friend of the speaker. 

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Jeanette Ortiz, Esq.

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April 9, 2026

In an interview, Dr. Ranee Mehra, Director of Head and Neck Medical Oncology at the 91大神 Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine, discussed how evolving strategies targeting EGFR, or epidermal growth factor receptor, are shaping treatment approaches in head and neck cancer.

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Ranee Mehra, MD

School of Medicine

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April 8, 2026

Many paediatricians are parents themselves, and they often have a more relaxed attitude about what their kids eat than you might expect. Here are some of the surprising things that show up at their dinner tables:

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Rebecca G. Carter, MD

School of Medicine

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April 8, 2026

In short, orforglipron has the potential to have a transformational impact on the treatment of obesity and ." Simeon I. Taylor, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore, told Medscape Medical News

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Simeon I. Taylor, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 8, 2026

Micah Yarbrough, director of bar preparation programs at Carey Law, said the improved success rates for first- and second-time test-takers show that recent bar-oriented changes to the curriculum are working. He said that although February exam results are important, the school measures success by bar performance in a calendar year. The year-to-year dip is “negligible,” he said, because far fewer people take the test in February.

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Micah Yarbrough, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 3, 2026

Latin American people are represented in fewer than four percent of genetic epidemiological studies around the world. When they are included, they’re often lumped together as one group, despite the rich diversity among different Latin American populations. This lack of data has impeded genetic discoveries in Latin Americans and has stalled advances in the clinical use of precision medicine.

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Victor Borda, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 3, 2026

In this cross-sectional study of all residential addresses in Maryland, distance from health-promoting resources increased with rurality, with isolated-rural areas farthest, despite a higher representation of populations with greater health care needs. Our findings support examining rurality as a continuum rather than a dichotomy to better characterize health outcomes and SDOH variation and to inform place-specific interventions.

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Rozalina McCoy, MD

School of Medicine

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April 2, 2026

The United States and Israel initiated strikes on Iran over one month ago, on February 28, 2026. The attack was a clear violation of the United Nations Charter. The conduct of the war, and statements of U.S. officials, also raise serious concerns about violations of international humanitarian law, including potential war crimes. We have written the below statement together with over 100 U.S.-based international law experts, to detail our profound concerns about the war. 

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Rabiat Akande, SJD

Carey School of Law

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April 2, 2026

As a geriatrician with decades of experience caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions, I was troubled by the March 28 online Health article “.”

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Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, MD

School of Medicine

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April 2, 2026

Cori Alonso-Yoder, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law and the director of the school’s immigration clinic, said costs in some cases can reach the tens of thousands of dollars.

“Immigration cases take a lot of time, they are very complex, and they don’t resolve themselves quickly, so it really is an investment of attorneys’ time to see cases through completion,” she said. 

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Cori Alonso-Yoder

Carey School of Law

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April 1, 2026

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked an appeals court to allow acting CFPB Director Russell Vought to immediately fire more than half of the agency's staff.

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Jeff Sovern, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 30, 2026

"For us, whatever needs families have, we work with them to provide it," Lezley Lewis Anthony said.

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Lezley Lewis Anthony, M.Ed.

School of Social Work

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March 27, 2026

Speaking from a clinical perspective, she said, “It’s a slippery and dangerous slope to say people with schizophrenia, who may experience anosognosia, should be given a fast track to guardianship or conservatorship.” 

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Krissa Rouse, LCPC

School of Medicine

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March 26, 2026

Mark Graber, a professor at the 91大神 School of Law, said there is a “real possibility” courts could view the amendment as unrelated to the bill’s original purpose, despite both provisions dealing broadly with elections.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 25, 2026

Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD, appeared on DC News Now to discuss the Montgomery County Council's upcoming vote on the ICE Out Act, which would prohibit private companies from opening immigrant detention centers in the county.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 24, 2026

Omer Awan, a professor and vice chair of education at the 91大神 School of Medicine, has joined Scripps News as a medical contributor.

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Omer Awan, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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March 24, 2026

Op-ed by Erika Lewis and Rianna Mukherjee, who are third-year law students at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law and student attorneys in the Racial Justice and the Law Clinic.

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March 23, 2026

‘You cost our healthcare system a lot of money,’ and ultimately was so successful that every state signed on,” said Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the 91大神 School of Law. “Those were straightforward tort claims under state law, and basically that’s what’s happening here.”

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 22, 2026

“Victims of police-perpetrated domestic violence face unique vulnerabilities,” said Leigh Goodmark, a law professor and expert on gender-based violence at the 91大神. “The abuser has a gun, knows where shelters are located, and understands how to manipulate the system to shift blame or avoid consequences. This power imbalance makes it extraordinarily difficult for survivors to seek help safely.”

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 20, 2026

“While threats of CVS pharmacy closures are challenged with assertations of fear-mongering, the implications of this bill are really unknown,” said Catherine Cooke, a research professor at the 91大神’s School of Pharmacy.

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Catherine Cooke, PharmD, BCPS, PAHM

School of Pharmacy

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March 20, 2026

A person’s tongue and gums are resistant to staining, possibly due to the constant coverage of saliva, , clinical associate professor at the 91大神 School of Dentistry and curator of the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, says via email.

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Scott Swank, DDS, MS, MBA, FACD

School of Dentistry

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March 19, 2026

Rise is run by the 91大神 School of Social Work and provides free child care and early learning for children from infancy until kindergarten. Parents, too, can take classes on topics such as cooking and financial literacy. They can eat, socialize and nap while their children are safe and supervised. Rise is open to all Baltimore parents of young kids, regardless of income.

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Sarah Dababnah, PhD, MPH, MSW

School of Social Work

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March 19, 2026

Dr. Thomas Scalea talks about the MS in Trauma Sciences program at the 91大神, Baltimore, on the TJ Smith Podcast.

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Thomas Scalea, MD

School of Medicine

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March 17, 2026

As more healthcare systems turn to AI scribe technology that listen in on clinic visits and draft doctors’ notes, what is happening to the original audio recording and subsequent transcript of the patient-clinician conversation?

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Daniel Morgan, MD

School of Medicine

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March 17, 2026

In honor of National Poison Prevention Week, observed March 15–21, TraumaNet is highlighting the Maryland Poison Center and its essential role in community safety. This year’s theme, “When the unexpected happens, Poison Help is here for you,” reminds us that emergencies can happen at any time and expert help is always available.

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March 16, 2026

Cori Alonso-Yoder, director of the Immigration Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said it is a person’s right to remain silent and walk away from federal officers if they do not have an arrest warrant, especially for U.S. citizens.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 13, 2026

In his book, 91大神 researcher Geoffrey Greif argues that male friendships tend to be "shoulder to shoulder" rather than "eye to eye" — men bond while doing something together, not by sitting across from each other and talking about their feelings.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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March 12, 2026

“There is a lack of understanding that addiction, like hypertension or diabetes, is a chronic, relapsing-remitting condition,” says Dr. Sarah Kattakuzhy, an associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Sarah M. Kattakuzhy, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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March 11, 2026

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health concern in the US. Although most sequelae resolve within 3 months, certain individuals experience persistent symptoms, including problems such as cognitive concerns, low energy, and depressed mood.

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Emerson Wickwire, PhD

School of Medicine

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March 10, 2026

“The sample came back with different results from these companies and even within the same company,” said Diane Hoffman, Jacob A. France Professor of Health Law at the 91大神 School of Law and a co-author of the study, during a press briefing last week. 

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Diane Hoffmann, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 6, 2026

Agnes Feemster, PharmD, associate dean for the PharmD program at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, said the decision to reimagine the curriculum came as pharmacy education reached what leaders saw as a tipping point.

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Agnes Feemster, PharmD,

School of Pharmacy

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March 6, 2026

Jessica Lee, an OB-GYN and associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, attributed part of the strong safety ranking to the state’s maternal mortality review committee. The committee identifies trends and warning signs to inform prevention efforts. Lee also emphasized reproductive health access as a key factor. 

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Jessica Karen Lee, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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March 6, 2026

Muhammad Mohiuddin, a clinician-researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, who led the first pig-heart transplant into a living person in 2022, agrees that the technology could be lifesaving.

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Muhammad Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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March 6, 2026

Siblings may be latched onto each other, like a barnacle to the hull of a ship. Almost half of the adult siblings a colleague and I studied said one of their siblings was a best friend, and two-thirds said their siblings made them happy. Relationships in our research were largely positive across gender, with sisters feeling more connected to their siblings than brothers.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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March 5, 2026

Walgreens’s weight loss program may be more attractive to some consumers compared to other telehealth options because of the lack of a monthly fee, Cherokee Layson-Wolf, a professor in the department of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, told Healthcare Brew. Hims, for example, charges $199 per month for compounded GLP-1s, and Ro charges $145 per month for cash-pay customers.

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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March 5, 2026

While deaths from diseases like flu, are well documented, no verified reporting covers Americans dying from drugs, including GLP-1s, said Dr. Rozalina McCoy, a practicing adult endocrinologist and researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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March 4, 2026

Dr. Robert R. Redfield served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021 and is a professor emeritus at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Dr. Robert R. Redfield

School of Medicine

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March 2, 2026

TrumpRx, the White House’s new online platform for some prescription drug purchases, got a shoutout during President Trump’s recent State of the Union speech. The president said, “Americans who have for decades paid by far the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs will now pay the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs.”

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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March 2, 2026

While all of the impacts from the U.S. and Israel's attacks on Iran are still unfolding, Maryland experts told WJZ that the longer the conflict lasts, the worse the economic impact could be across the country.

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Michael Vesely, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 1, 2026

State environmental regulators are investigating a second Baltimore bridge for allegedly shedding lead paint chips into storm drains, warning the city could face daily fines while cleanup and long-term repairs from the first incident remain unresolved.

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Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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February 27, 2026

The ruling is "sort of an acid test of the major questions doctrine" 91大神 environmental law program director Robert Percival said during an American Law Institute and Environmental Law Institute panel Feb. 20. He also suggested that the 6-3 majority ruling striking down the tariffs "may signal a major change in [the court's] relationship with Trump."

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 27, 2026

“The gut microbiome has been linked, at least in the public imagination, to the idea that you can improve a whole range of conditions through diet and lifestyle change,” says Diane Hoffman, a co-author of the study and a health law professor at the 91大神, Baltimore. “There’s been a lot of hype around that, but the hype doesn’t really match the evidence.”

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Diane Hoffmann, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 27, 2026

Servetas and her colleagues from NIST and the 91大神 School of Medicine evaluated the performance of seven DTC microbiome testing services using a fecal reference material developed by the NIST to help standardize microbiome comparisons. 

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February 27, 2026

For some patients, retatrutide may be too effective. The weight loss achieved with retatrutide may approach the percentage of weight a person can shed within a year after bariatric surgery.

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Rozalina McCoy, MD

School of Medicine

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February 27, 2026

“I’m hoping that for people with type 2 diabetes, this could really help them be less reliant on insulin,” says Rozalina McCoy, an endocrinologist and internist at the 91大神 School of Medicine. “With insulin, there is risk of weight gain, for hypoglycemia, and there’s more treatment burden and need for glucose monitoring.”

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Rozalina McCoy, MD

School of Medicine

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February 27, 2026

In an interview with CURE, Dr. Ranee Mehra, director of Head and Neck Oncology in the Division of Hematology/Oncology and associate director for Clinical Research at the 91大神 School of Medicine, shared advice for patients with head and neck cancers and their caregivers who are weighing treatment decisions.

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Ranee Mehra, MD

School of Medicine

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February 26, 2026

“Unlike a vaccine or a drug, this is actually meant to boost our immune response against all viruses,” Dr. Kirsten Lyke explained.

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Kirsten E. Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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February 26, 2026

When university officials approached her about the graduate school’s needs, School of Social Work Dean Judy Postmus said she wanted a structure that reflected the institution’s values.

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Judy Postmus, PhD, ACSW

School of Social Work

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February 25, 2026

Mark Graber, a regents professor at the 91大神 Law School, said he could see a court ruling for and against the zoning bill. A court’s decision, he said, would be up to what a judge interprets as the law’s intention.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 25, 2026

When America gained its independence, the practice of dentistry was evolving into a special practice separate from medicine, according to Dr. Scott Swank, a clinical associate professor at the 91大神 School of Dentistry and curator at the

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Scott Swank, DDS, MS, MBA, FACD

School of Dentistry

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February 25, 2026

The 91大神 Medical System, 91大神 Baltimore, and MedStar Health have joined CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Johns Hopkins as anchor collaborators for Techstars AI Health Baltimore, the Greater Baltimore Committee’s flagship healthcare accelerator.

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February 25, 2026

Representatives of the 91大神, Baltimore (UMB) held a topping-off ceremony on Wednesday for a six-story, $120 million building at 600 W. Lexington St. that will house its School of Social Work. 

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February 24, 2026

After measles, “I think the second-most concerning is whooping cough, or pertussis,” said , a pediatrician and head of the Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Pediatrics at the 91大神 School of Medicine. 

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Karen L. Kotloff, MD

School of Medicine

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February 24, 2026

James D. Campbell, MD, MS, professor of pediatrics at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore and vice chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, said he is disheartened by the decreased rates “because of people sowing doubt.”

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James D. Campbell, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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February 23, 2026

Dr Deanna Kelly, a professor of psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine who researches keto and mental health, told the Guardian that keto changes how mitochondria function by changing the fuel they use. The goal of a ketogenic diet is to put the body in ketosis, which Kelly said is when the body begins burning fat instead of glucose for fuel.

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Deanna L. Kelly, PharmD, BCPP, FAAPP

School of Medicine

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February 23, 2026

‘What surprised us most was that immersive virtual environments and even avatars could amplify placebo analgesia,” Luana Colloca, professor with the 91大神, Baltimore, said on a UMD website. “This opens new possibilities for integrating digital tools into pain management strategies.”

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS

School of Nursing

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February 23, 2026

The FDA made the right call, Dr. Rozalina McCoy, a practicing adult endocrinologist and researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told The Baltimore Sun. These compounded drugs complicate her efforts to treat patients for diabetes and obesity.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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February 23, 2026

“It’s an opportunity to develop the northern end of our campus to make it a vibrant community,” said Bruce Jarrell, president of UMB since 2020. “We think of it as a college town, an area where young people, older people want to live together. They will put feet on the street to make energy happen around here.”

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Bruce Jarrell, MD, FACS

School of Medicine

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February 20, 2026

On WBAL News Now at 6 91大神 Carey School of Law Professor Mark Graber analyzes the Supreme Court decision and WBAL’s Amy Lu reports on its impact on consumers. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 18, 2026

There was some debate about escalating a legal fight to the Supreme Court, given its ideological orientation. But William Piermattei, the managing director of the Environmental Law Program at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said in an interview that environmentalists “must challenge this.”

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William Piermattei, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 18, 2026

Director of Sports Cardiology at 91大神 Medical Center, Scott D. Jerome, DO, sees athletes of all ages, from high school varsity athletes to master’s level 65+ athletes. The testing for each type and age of athlete differs.

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Scott Jerome, DO, F.A.C.C., F.A.S.N.C., F.S.C.C.T.

School of Medicine

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February 18, 2026

“The average person with heart failure is misdiagnosed four to five times,” says Dr. Albert Hicks, cardiologist and section chief of advanced heart failure and transplant at the 91大神 Medical Center. “Most of the time they’re diagnosed with pneumonia or a bad cold, asthma or COPD.” Shortness of breath, the characteristic symptom of heart failure, can easily be attributed to other conditions.

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Albert Hicks, MD

School of Medicine

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February 18, 2026

High demand for these drugs has meant that there has been “a lot of money to be made,” says Joshua King, a medical toxicologist at the 91大神, suggesting the financial opportunity triggered this burst of compounding pharmacies.

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Joshua King

School of Pharmacy

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February 18, 2026

"While research like this points us in the right direction for future studies, we should be cautious not to jump to conclusions," Ahmad, who was not involved in this study, added.

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Haroon Ahmad, MD

School of Medicine

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February 18, 2026

The 91大神, Baltimore received $1,000,000 from Commerce, matched by $2,000,000 in qualified funding from the university, to establish the Edward and Jennifer St. John Endowed Professorship in Translational Biomedical Engineering and Innovation at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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February 17, 2026

Tourniquets can be helpful for gunshot wounds on the arms and legs. But fashioning a makeshift tourniquet out of common items like belts, neck ties, or ripped clothes can do more harm than good, according to Sharon M. Henry, MD, who works as a trauma surgeon at the 91大神 Medical Center and serves as the Anne Scalea Professor of Trauma at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Sharon M. Henry, MD

School of Medicine

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February 16, 2026

Cori Alonso-Yoder, assistant professor of law and director of the Immigration Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said street enforcement has been used as a form of “retaliation” by the federal government in states such as Illinois and .

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 16, 2026

Mark Graber, a law professor at the 91大神’s Francis King Carey School of Law, said governors routinely take positions on matters that later come before the state’s highest court.

“I’m not sure there are any specific ethical dilemmas,” Graber said. “Every year, or most years, there are important issues brought before the Maryland Supreme Court where the governor is hoping for a favorable decision.”

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 15, 2026

Cori Alonso-Yoder, assistant professor of law and director of the Immigration Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said street enforcement has been used as a form of “retaliation” by the federal government in states such as Illinois and Minnesota.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 13, 2026

Maryland senators have taken up a bill to extend a psychedelics task force through the end of 2027 to develop updated recommendations on expanding therapeutic access to the novel drugs and potentially creating a regulatory framework for broader legalization.

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Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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February 13, 2026

"This may be another classic case where overreach by the Trump administration comes back to bite it," said Robert Percival, a 91大神 environmental law professor. Environmental groups have slammed the proposed repeal as a danger to the climate. 

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 13, 2026

In what the White House has described as the "largest deregulatory action in American history," President Donald Trump has undone a key scientific finding that has been the cornerstone of United States efforts to fight climate change for more than 16 years.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 13, 2026

“Some studies have shown that fish oil may help to lower blood pressure and others have not,” said Lauren Hynicka, PharmD, BCPS, an associate professor of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Lauren Hynicka, PharmD, BCPS

School of Pharmacy

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February 11, 2026

"This may be another classic case where overreach by the Trump administration comes back to bite it," said Robert Percival, a 91大神 environmental law professor.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 11, 2026

"As our population ages and cognitive difficulties become more common, these sorts of issues come to the forefront. Sadly, I think this is not something that is as isolated as it used to be," said Dr. Jacob Blumenthal, a physician specializing in geriatrics and associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Jacob B. Blumenthal, MD

School of Medicine

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February 11, 2026

The 91大神, Baltimore, is trying to create a $300 million “college town” near the heart of its downtown campus, featuring high-rise residential buildings, an outdoor recreation area and maybe even a pub.

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February 10, 2026

91大神 School of Medicine’s Andreea Creanga, M.D., Ph.D., discusses initiatives to eliminate preventable maternal deaths and severe maternal morbidity

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Andreea Creanga, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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February 10, 2026

The 91大神, Baltimore wants to leverage hundreds of millions in private funds to transform a wide swath of land near its campus into a "college town" that could house 1,300 people.

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February 10, 2026

 “You have seen an exponential growth in 287(g) agreements in the Trump administration,” Cori Alonso-Yoder, a law professor and director of the Immigration Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, told HuffPost. “The current enforcement model is the on-the-street, mass roundup style.”

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Cori Alonso-Yoder

Carey School of Law

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February 9, 2026

“Access is absolutely a problem,” said Dr. Daniel Morgan, professor of epidemiology and public health and medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine. “We’d like to see patients more expeditiously. I don’t know a single physician who loves to say, ‘Oh yeah. It’s six months to see me.’”

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Daniel Morgan, MD

School of Medicine

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February 6, 2026

91大神 Law Professor Mark Graber explained the complex legal landscape surrounding such restrictions.

"On the one hand, it's very clear, a county, a city, a state can ban private detention centers. On the other hand, the federal government is supreme."

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 6, 2026

91大神 Law Professor Mark Graber also agrees a legal challenge is imminent.“The question is: Who is going to win, where and when?” Graber said.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 6, 2026

If you wear custom orthotics, or think you may need to invest in a pair of shoe inserts, buy sneakers that have removable insoles, says Dr. , a podiatric surgeon and an associate professor of foot and ankle surgery for the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Jacob Wynes, DPM, FACFAS

School of Medicine

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February 6, 2026

Spine surgery often requires multiple layers of care (imaging, injections and perhaps surgery), each with its own delay. Decisions are frequently made by non-spine-trained reviewers using generic checklists, AI and  completely lack the fundamental knowledge that acknowledges a patient’s spinal problem, and how the curated surgical procedure, abiding by all of the state-of-the-art principles, achieves operative and patient goals. 

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Steven C. Ludwig, MD

School of Medicine

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February 4, 2026

What if that “immune boosting” nasal spray at the convenience store counter alongside energy shots and gum were a scientifically valid way to keep the flu and a lot of other viruses at bay?

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Justin R. Ortiz, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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February 3, 2026

Seemant Chaturvedi, M.D., the recipient of the David G. Sherman Lecture Award, is a stroke neurologist and the Stewart J. Greenebaum Endowed Professor in Stroke Neurology, and director of the stroke division at the 91大神 Medical School Stroke Program in Baltimore.

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Seemant Chaturvedi, MD

School of Medicine

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February 3, 2026

So far, results are most promising for people with abnormally high blood pressure who are deficient in the mineral, said , Pharm.D, a clinical assistant professor of cardiology at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.  

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Jocelyn Edwards, PharmD

School of Pharmacy

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February 2, 2026

As the 2016 Winter Olympics approach, athletes are intensifying their preparations to compete at the highest level.

Dr. Kyle Yost, a sports medicine physician at the 91大神 School of Medicine, emphasized the critical role of recovery in athletic performance.

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Kyle Yost, DO

School of Medicine

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February 2, 2026

A groundbreaking review led by scientists at the 91大神 School of Medicine is shedding new light on the intricate role genetic ancestry plays in the biology and treatment response of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).

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Daria Gaykalova, Phd

School of Medicine

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January 30, 2026

Tyler Stokes, a genetic counselor at the 91大神 Medical Center’s Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center said she typically informs patients considering services like 23andMe that specialty insurance plans can currently use genetic tests to determine eligibility. 

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Tyler Stokes, MS

School of Medicine

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January 30, 2026

“There is not a total immunity or blanket immunity for a federal officer who commits an unlawful act, even if they’re committing that unlawful act while on duty,” said Cori Alonso-Yoder, director of the 91大神 law school’s immigration clinic. 

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 30, 2026

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ancestry, according to a new review study led by researchers from the 91大神 School of Medicine's (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) and the 91大神 Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).

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January 28, 2026

“We’re starting to see that there's not only issues with access but also issues with the chronic diseases, people [in] emergency rooms, people get sicker and people really dying if we're going to be blunt about it,” said Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, associate dean at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD

School of Pharmacy

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January 27, 2026

The 91大神 School of Pharmacy and CVS Health have launched a multi-faceted initiative designed to strengthen pharmacy education, enhance patient care and foster innovation in community pharmacy. The multi-year agreement will support UMSOP in exploring and launching an artificial intelligence driven pharmacy initiative and experiential learning opportunities for UMSOP students across CVS Health.

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Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD

School of Pharmacy

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January 27, 2026

Chronic itch has often been dismissed as a minor skin complaint; however, experts view it as a warning sign of deeper disease and a driver of repeated health visits and rising costs. This FAQ explains why chronic itch and prurigo nodularis matter to managed care leaders and why many patients don’t always get the appropriate care

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Shawn Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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January 27, 2026

The 91大神 School of Social Work’s (UMSSW) Leadership, Policy and Social Change (LPSC) concentration (formerly referred to as Macro) equips social work students with education and real-world practicum experience to address society’s most complex issues through policy advocacy, organizational leadership and community organizing.

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January 27, 2026

UMSSW Assistant Dean of Continuing Education and chair of the Financial Social Work Initiative provides tools for social workers to help clients as job market tightens

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Seante Hatcher, MSW

School of Social Work

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January 27, 2026

Dr. Jason Molitoris, a radiation oncologist at the Maryland Proton Treatment Center and associate professor of radiation oncology at the 91大神 School of Medicine is interviewed.

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Jason K. Molitoris, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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January 26, 2026

“The Bill of Rights, we thought, were the first 10 amendments,” stated Mark Graber, a professor from the 91大神 and a constitutional law scholar.

There are typically two ways in which immigration officials can make arrests: a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. Judicial warrants allow the officer to make an arrest and search the person’s home. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 25, 2026

You might have the 's phone number (800-222-1222) handy in your home in case of emergency, but how much thought have you put into the work they do? Angel Bivens, the center's managing director, gives 11 TV Hill insight into their efforts to save lives every day.

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Angel Bivens, MBA, CSPI

School of Pharmacy

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January 25, 2026

Cori Alonso-Yoder, director of the Immigration Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law attended the naturalization ceremony in D.C. with one of her clients. The client was "exceptionally nervous" about being arrested even during her , bringing someone with them as support, she said.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 23, 2026

Pharmacists can be a valuable resource to help fill access gaps, said Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, a professor at the 91大神, Baltimore. Most Americans, she said, of a pharmacy and visit on a weekly or monthly basis.

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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January 23, 2026

To that point, a PA should explain results to patients to the degree one is comfortable and competent, and in alignment with clinic protocols, said Deborah L. Schofield, PhD, DNP, CRNP, senior nurse practitioner for population health at the 91大神 Medical Center, chair of advanced practice providers at the 91大神 Medical System, and an associate adjunct professor at the 91大神 School of Nursing, all in Baltimore.

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Deborah L. Schofield, PhD, DNP, CRNP

School of Nursing

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January 22, 2026

The 91大神 School of Medicine delivered a kidney for a transplant in Baltimore by drone. If you can accomplish things like that, can we now make this more accessible in people’s lives by taking medication and supplies to them?

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January 22, 2026

91大神 School of Medicine professor Dr. Omer Awan discusses why the U.S. has officially completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

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Omer A. Awan, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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January 22, 2026

“Babies are especially vulnerable to cold due to the fact that they have a large body surface area compared to their size, which causes them to lose heat more rapidly,” Dr. Esther Liu, chair of pediatrics and director of group-based care at the 91大神 Baltimore Washington Medical Center, tells Yahoo Life. “Additionally, they don’t have the ability to regulate their temperatures as well when they are young,” she adds.

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Esther Kim Liu, MD, FAAP

School of Medicine

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January 22, 2026

“The first time you receive the infusion it can cause anxiety; it may be ideal for the first injection to be given in a provider’s office, so patients and caregivers can experience the injection with on-site help,” says Megan Ehret, PharmD, a professor in the department of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.

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Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP

School of Pharmacy

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January 22, 2026

“The Bill of Rights, we thought, were the first 10 amendments,” said Mark Graber, a constitutional law scholar and 91大神 professor.

With the newly discovered memo, he said: “I guess now we’re down to nine.”

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Mark Graber

Carey School of Law

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January 22, 2026

CVS Health and the 91大神 School of Pharmacy in Baltimore a multiyear collaboration to strengthen pharmacy workforce development and advance innovation in community practice.

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January 21, 2026

The awards, which replace the long-running CEO of the Year and the Power 10 Awards, are part of the BBJ's new look at the business power players making their mark in Greater Baltimore.

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Roger J. Ward, EdD, JD, MSL, MPA

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January 21, 2026

Rozalina McCoy, an associate professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told the Post that these plans were meant to encourage people to become wiser health care shoppers (1). McCoy also said high-deductible plans can be a benefit to those who have savings, or who don’t require regular health care.

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Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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January 20, 2026

“Having your practitioner provide documentation or proving that you have disabilities is just an added layer of that administrative burden,” Schuyler said, which is especially likely to strip SNAP from people in their fifties and through mid-sixties. With the USDA’s decision to quit tracking food insecurity, the impact will remain unclear and far more challenging to address.

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Lauren Schuyler, Phd, MA

School of Social Work

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January 20, 2026

Minneapolis has seen tense demonstrations against the Trump administration’s deployment of federal agents to the city for an immigration crackdown, raising questions about what these officers can do on the ground and how President Donald Trump can respond. 

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 20, 2026

Dr. Beverly J. Fang, MD, a psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist at the 91大神 Medical Center and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine, says that chronic sleep deprivation is linked to a higher risk of high blood pressure, one key way that not getting enough sleep ages the heart. 

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January 20, 2026

WJZ Anchor Rick Ritter spoke with Dr. Adam Kaufman, an Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialist and Assistant Professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, about health concerns with wireless earbuds.

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Adam Kaufman, MD

School of Medicine

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January 20, 2026

President ’s letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre about acquiring has sparked pushback from his critics, bringing renewed attention to the and how a president could be removed without impeachment. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 20, 2026

Prayer before government meetings is not banned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it comes with clear limits, according to 91大神 constitutional law professor Mark Graber.

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Mark A. Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

January 16, 2026

If you get the measles, you might be a “lucky” one and just get really sick with a fever, cough, fatigue, and rash for about two weeks, says Jill A. Morgan, PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS, FNAP, professor and chair of the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy. 

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Jill A. Morgan, PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS, FNAP

School of Pharmacy

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January 15, 2026

Katherine Goodman PhD,  assistant professor of epidemiology and public health and and Daniel Morgan, MD, AI researcher and professor of epidemiology and medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine wrote an opinion piece in Stat News about the use of artificial intelligence in medical research. 

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January 15, 2026

A controversial hepatitis B vaccine safety trial will go on as planned in Africa, amid concerns over its ethics and design from medical experts. That’s despite news reports of its cancellation, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Wilbur Chen, MD

School of Medicine

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January 15, 2026

Republican lawmakers came to Charleston this week ready to kick off the legislative session with they said could help fix the state’s troubled foster care system.

Mountain State Spotlight asked five child welfare researchers to review their bills.

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Bethany R. Lee, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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January 13, 2026

Researchers at the 91大神’s School of Medicine wanted to study how the flu spreads through populations. They intentionally put sick college students on a hotel floor with 11 healthy middle-aged volunteers.

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January 13, 2026

Researchers from 91大神 Schools of Public Health and Engineering in College Park and the School of Medicine in Baltimore wanted to find out how the flu spreads, so they put college students already sick with the flu into a hotel room with healthy middle-aged adult volunteers. The result? No one caught the flu.

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January 12, 2026

Lydia Watts, the director of the 91大神, Baltimore’s Rebuild, Overcome, and Rise Center, which provides services to victims of crime, said that to her knowledge, it is uncommon for states to allow residents to file criminal charges without police. 

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January 11, 2026

Jane Shaab wants more breakthrough science, so naturally she’s excited for the new coffee bar. Shaab is the longstanding executive director of the 91大神 BioPark, a tidy urban research park just west of downtown Baltimore. 

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January 9, 2026

“Our research has found that patients report an improvement in depression scores after even the first administration of light,” says Dr. Teodor Postolache, who treats anxiety and mood disorders at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Teodor T. Postolache, MD

School of Medicine

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January 8, 2026

Here’s a good New Year’s resolution for older patients and their families: Figure out if their prescriptions pose a health risk, because often they can.

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Nicole Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, FASCP

School of Pharmacy

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January 8, 2026

At 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, Danielle Basdekis has built a legacy of action through service. 

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Carey School of Law

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January 8, 2026

Richard Zwicky talks with Andrew "Andy" Coop, a professor at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy and chair of Maryland’s Task Force on the Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances.

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Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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January 7, 2026

A November article in the Journal of the American Medical Association says the veterinary sedative and painkiller medetomidine has become prevalent in drugs sold in Philadelphia and local doctors fear it will begin to spike in Baltimore next. “Reports out of Philadelphia are pretty bad,” Dr. Gentry Wilkerson, an emergency physician at the 91大神 Medical Center, told The Baltimore Sun. 

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Gentry Wilkerson, MD

School of Medicine

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January 7, 2026

Alyssa M. Baginski, from the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues examined the association between neighborhood deprivation and days spent at home after hip fracture in a cohort study analyzing a random sample of Medicare claims and assessment data for beneficiaries who experienced a fall-related hip fracture, underwent surgery, and were discharged alive to a nonhospice home or postacute care setting.

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Alyssa M. Baginski

School of Medicine

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January 7, 2026

Be prepared for it to take a few months before you start seeing results on the GLP-1 pill, Rozalina McCoy, MD, a practicing endocrinologist and associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told Health. Unlike injections, which go directly into the bloodstream, the tablets must first be digested. As a result, the oral medication requires a much higher dose: 25 milligrams (mg), compared with 2.4 mg for the injections.

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Rozalina McKoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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January 6, 2026

As highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads among birds and increasingly spills over into mammals, including recent cases in dairy and poultry workers, the race is on to strengthen the world’s pandemic defenses.

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Meagan Deming, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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January 5, 2026

Every moment in sports has become a wager, and not just on who will win the Super Bowl or how many strikeouts a pitcher will throw. With a quick tap on your phone, you can bet on what color Gatorade will drench a winning coach, whether a player will propose to his girlfriend on the field, and more. 

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Christopher Welsh, MD

School of Medicine

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January 5, 2026

As the days are shorter, many people find themselves feeling sad. You might feel blue around the winter holidays, or get into a slump after the fun and festivities have ended.

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Teodor Postolache, MD

School of Medicine

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January 5, 2026

At the upcoming legislative session, which begins Jan. 14, the General Assembly will again consider ending what are known as 287(g) agreements, through which local law enforcement and detention agencies collaborate with ICE.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 5, 2026

It's no secret that the Greater Baltimore business community has seen massive leadership turnover in the past year.

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January 2, 2026

Elizabeth Clayborne likes to tell the story of a question her young daughter once asked her: “Mom, can boys be doctors?”

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Elizabeth Clayborne, MD

School of Medicine

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January 2, 2026

Maryland health officials report a surge in flu cases and hospitalizations that have overwhelmed emergency rooms and triggered new hospital masking policies.

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Gregory Schrank, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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December 29, 2025

“The Biden-era research law was designed to create a clearer pathway for cannabis studies, but its impact has been limited because the requirements remain tied to Schedule 3 rules,” said Chad Johnson, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and director of the Graduate Studies in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics Program at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Chad Johnson, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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December 29, 2025

“There’s something that’s a bit demanding about resolutions,” says Dr. Christopher W.T. Miller, an associate professor of psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine. “It automatically creates an expectation.”

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Christopher W. T. Miller, MD

School of Medicine

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December 28, 2025

However, Dr. Ogbolu says this could also keep valuable people out of fields that already have too few workers. “Without access to student loans at the highest level, I believe a nursing shortage that is already hanging on a cliff, could easily be worsened,” she said.

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Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN

School of Nursing

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December 27, 2025

David Gray, a professor at the 91大神 law school who participated in the briefing, told lawmakers that if a doorbell camera captures video and audio of an alleged crime, the video can be admissible in court under the current law, but not the audio.

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David Gray

Carey School of Law

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December 25, 2025

"We want to attract students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds so they can go out and be practitioners in their communities, including in rural communities. The direct impact is it makes these programs less accessible," said Roger Ward, provost and executive vice president of the 91大神, Baltimore.

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December 22, 2025

In an effort to address the Nationwide shortage of doctors in the United States, the 91大神 School of Medicine is expanding it's MD program class size over the next five years.

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Mark Gladden, MD

School of Medicine

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December 18, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.

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Matthew Swinburne, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 18, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.

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Chad Johnson, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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December 18, 2025

Changes could soon be coming to the cannabis industry after new action by the White House.

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Chad Johnson, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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December 18, 2025

About one in every 31 hospital patients will pick up an infection in the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research shows that being prescribed an opioid for pain relief could leave you twice as likely to get sick by depressing your immune system, or disturbing the balance of gut bacteria that can keep you healthy.

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Summer Thompson, PhD, MS

School of Medicine

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December 18, 2025

Maryland cannabis business owners are celebrating President Trump's move to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug.

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Chad Johnson, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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December 15, 2025

Taking drops of a medical dye is trending in wellness and biohacking circles. Some influencers claim it boosts longevity and brain health. Scientists say the hype has gotten ahead of the research.

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Nicole Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, FASCP

School of Pharmacy

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December 14, 2025

Nearly 200 families were expected to shop at the 10th annual Christmas Store, hosted by the 91大神, Baltimore, and The Foundry Church on Friday.

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December 11, 2025

Pain is informative. At a most basic level, the feeling of physical discomfort is a signal from your body that something is wrong. We react to pain in a way that may protect us from further injury – like quickly pulling your hand back when you’ve touched something hot.

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS

School of Nursing

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December 11, 2025

Thomas Wolfe coined the phrase, You can’t go home again, for his 1940 book of that title, but you can certainly get back in the neighborhood. Families can be like trees—shivering in the metaphorical winter winds and standing tall and strong in other storms. Sometimes boughs bend and sometimes they break.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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December 11, 2025

To public health experts, these types of announcements and changes at the federal level are signaling a clear message. Instead of trusting your pediatrician and the science, “They’re trying to shift the focus to your rights as parents,” Wilbur Chen, an infectious disease doctor and a medical professor at 91大神 America, told HuffPost.

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Wilbur Chen, MD

School of Medicine

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December 11, 2025

Adults with autism spectrum disorder and other neurodevelopmental disorders often lose access to specialized care once they age out of pediatric services. A new report from the 91大神 School of Medicine presents five years of real-world data from their clinical practice at the Clinical Center for Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders, demonstrating how a state-funded, multidisciplinary care model can close these gaps and serve as a blueprint for other states.

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Pamela Sylvia Cole, LCGC, MS

School of Medicine

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December 11, 2025

"This important and surprising research finding adds to our current knowledge about non-modifiable risk factors for stroke – including a person's blood type," 91大神 physician-scientist Mark Gladwin when the study was published.

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Mark Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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December 10, 2025

“My worry is that more Americans will believe we no longer need to pay attention to hepatitis B in children, and we will return to the time when many babies and young children were infected every year,” Campbell wrote in an email.

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James D. Campbell, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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December 9, 2025

“All of these complications are preventable,” said , the study’s lead author. The initial rationale behind such high-deductible plans was to encourage people to become wiser health care shoppers, said McCoy, an associate professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore. 

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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December 9, 2025

"It's very similar to other addictions so looking at compulsive gambling you can't stop even if you are having issues like losing money, people don't actually think about it, but you can have withdrawal from gambling the same way you can from alcohol people actually get jittery," said Dr. Christopher Welsh, Medical Director at The Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling and Professor of Psychiatry at UMSOM.

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Christopher Welsh

School of Medicine

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December 9, 2025

"We are seeing projections of physician shortages that are deeply concerning for the future of medical care in the U.S.," said UMSOM Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD. "According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the U.S. could face a shortage of up to 84,000 physicians by 2036, with more than one-third of currently active physicians expected to retire within the next decade."

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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December 9, 2025

“There is no replacement for the federal funding,” said UMB President Bruce Jarrell. “These things are evaporating, and they’re evaporating very quickly.”

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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December 8, 2025

The eight-story building, designed to relieve the lab space shortage for researchers and smaller companies, offers 160,000 square feet of wet labs for life sciences firms and anchors the 91大神 BioPark campus.

“We needed bioengineering in Baltimore for a long time, and now we have it,” 91大神, Baltimore President Bruce Jarrell said during its unveiling in January. 

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December 8, 2025

On the other hand, the new recommendation may make it harder for all patients to be treated equally, said Dr. Wilbur Chen, infectious disease specialist and vaccine researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Wilbur H. Chen, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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December 8, 2025

“In this large study, we saw that Black race was an independent predictor of inferior survival in patients with AML treated on clinical trials with intensive chemotherapy, and that poorer survival of Black patients was independent of cytogenetics,” said Shella Saint Fleur-Lominy, MD, PhD, an physician at The 91大神 School of Medicine’s Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore, Maryland, who presented the data.

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Shella Saint Fleur-Lominy, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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December 8, 2025

Robert Percival, a law professor and director of the 91大神’s environmental law program, told ExxonKnews the industry is likely concerned about the disclosure of evidence supporting the plaintiffs’ deception claims. The companies “know win or lose, the stuff that will come out of trial will make them look so bad in the public’s mind,” Percival said.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 8, 2025

Back in April, experts Shawn Kwatra, M.D., chair of dermatology at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Brian Kim, M.D., and Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., all shared with Managed Healthcare Executive that .

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Shawn Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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December 7, 2025

The development highlights a tension between privacy concerns and the push to solve crimes when it comes to genetic material, said Natalie Ram, a professor at the 91大神’s Francis King Carey School of Law and a genetic-privacy expert.

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Natalie Ram

Carey School of Law

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December 7, 2025

The initial rationale behind such high-deductible plans was to encourage people to become wiser health care shoppers, said McCoy, an associate professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore. And they can be a good fit, proponents say, for people who don’t use a lot of medical care or who have cash on hand for a health crisis.

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Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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December 6, 2025

The latest government shutdown was all about health care — and money. During the COVID-19 pandemic, temporary enhanced premium tax credits for the Affordable Care Act were put into effect, but those enhanced tax credits are scheduled to expire on Dec. 31, 2025. 

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Richard Manski, DDS

School of Dentistry

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December 5, 2025

“There are a few different ways COPD inhalers can cause dry mouth,” says , a pulmonary and critical care specialist at the 91大神 Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore. 

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Kathryn S. Robinett, MD

School of Medicine

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December 5, 2025

Adding blood tests for infants creates more pain for the baby and costs for the health plan without any evidence on whether they’re necessary, said Jill Morgan, chair of the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Jill A. Morgan, PharmD, BCPS, BCPPS, FNAP

School of Pharmacy

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December 5, 2025

Dr. Wilbur Chen, professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine, who was one of the former ACIP members Kennedy removed in June, says that committee members promoted their own skeptical views on vaccines and that no new or additional evidence was presented to question the safety or effectiveness of the newborn hepatitis B vaccine dose. 

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Wilbur Chen, MD

School of Medicine

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December 4, 2025

Minors living at Restoration Gardens I will receive case management through the 91大神, Baltimore/Uplift Alliance Inc., along with employment and life skills coaching and connection to basic needs assistance. The city expects to serve 60 minors each year. 

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Wendy Shaia, EdD, MSW

School of Social Work

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December 3, 2025

“The disease could become a chronic condition, and not a death sentence,” said Dr. Graeme Woodworth, chair of neurosurgery at the 91大神 School of Medicine who led the study published late last month. 

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Graeme F. Woodworth, MD

School of Medicine

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December 1, 2025

The university is looking to grow its medical school enrollment by 33%.

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December 1, 2025

Dr. Siddhartha Dante, an associate professor of pediatrics at the 91大神 School of Medicine and associate medical director for the Division of Critical Care, and I discussed several options including the .

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Dr. Siddhartha Dante

School of Medicine

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December 1, 2025

“Our results are very encouraging. Using focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier and deliver chemotherapy could signi铿乧antly increase patient survival, which other ongoing studies are seeking to con铿乺m and expand,” study principal investigator Graeme Woodworth said in a statement. Woodworth is a professor and chair of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine as well as neurosurgeon-in-chief at the 91大神 Medical Center.

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Graeme Woodworth

School of Medicine

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December 1, 2025

“Trainees must have some degree of molecular literacy to be able to provide personalized care post-graduation for their patients. Expertise in immunotherapy as well as cellular therapy is also a new component of education. Most of these treatments did not exist a decade ago, and now many are mainstays in treating disease,” said Associate Professor of Medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine Jennie Y. Law, MD.

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Jennie Y. Law, MD.

School of Medicine

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December 1, 2025

It isn’t uncommon for a visa to be revoked at the border under the Trump administration, said Cori Alonso-Yoder, director of the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law.

“Each new arrival to the United States is an opportunity for a new analysis of someone’s eligibility to enter into the United States,” she said.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder

Carey School of Law

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November 28, 2025

Dr. Yolanda Ogbolu, who serves as the Dean of Nursing at the 91大神, says she’s concerned about a new proposal from

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Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN

School of Nursing

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November 28, 2025

“It’s important to start moving during the recovery phase,” said Dr. Robynne Braun, an associate professor in the department of neurology at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore. Braun also is a member of the American Heart Association’s Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Committee and its Stroke Council. “The goal should be to start getting people back to the highest level of activity and independence possible.”

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Robynne G. Braun, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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November 27, 2025

“When you’re marrying somebody who is from a different culture,” said Geoffrey Greif, a professor at the 91大神 School of Social Work, “you want to make sure that your family is represented."

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW, LCSW-C

School of Social Work

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November 27, 2025

Dr. Omer Awan, a physician at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, told Fox News Digital that the ideal hour to eat Thanksgiving dinner leans toward 4 p.m., but some people might push it to 5 p.m.

"This is because Thanksgiving dinner is usually a heavy meal and many Americans drink alcohol," Awan said.

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Dr. Omer Awan

School of Medicine

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November 26, 2025

We’re not alone in this bittersweet dance: 64% of adults consider themselves to be a “good friend” to at least one of their siblings, while 45% count at least one sibling among their best friends, according to research done by Geoff Greif, PhD, a professor at the 91大神 School of Social Work who published these findings in his book Adult Sibling Relationships.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW, LCSW-C

School of Social Work

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November 25, 2025

Amanda Barnes, the Assistant Director of Student Services at the 91大神's Carey School of Law, said times are really hard right now. 

"There's a lot of financial strain in the community, so the need is great," Barnes said.

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Amanda Barnes

Carey School of Law

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November 21, 2025

Daniel Rosenberg, who directs the eviction clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, told the committee that the rule could lead to more people becoming homeless and facing worse health outcomes. He told The Daily Record he was pleased the rule was not approved. 

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Daniel Rosenberg, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 20, 2025

David Gray, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, cautioned making Maryland a one-party state, where only one individual involved in a conversation can consent to it being recorded, including the person doing the recording.

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David Gray, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 18, 2025

On WBAL News Now at 6 Unviersity of Maryland School of Law Professor Mark Graber discusses the U.S. Supreme Court considers a legal challenge to tariffs imposed by President Trump.

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Mark Graber

Carey School of Law

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November 18, 2025

Robert Percival, an environmental law professor at the 91大神, told Inside Climate News that it is “extremely unlikely that a U.S. court would feel compelled to uphold it.” 

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Robert Percival

Carey School of Law

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November 18, 2025

Task force Chair and 91大神 School of Pharmacy professor, Andy Coop, says the focus over the next year needs to be educating elected representatives, educating the public, and having the public give their feedback about the report to those elected representatives in the Senate and the House.

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Dr. Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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November 18, 2025

The University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA) has named Victoria Meadows, Assistant Director of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program at the 91大神, Baltimore (UMB), as a recipient of the 2025 Emerging Risk Professional Award. 

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Victoria Meadows, MS

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November 18, 2025

In this latest episode of his “Conversations With Perry and Friends” podcast, Perry Cohen, Pharm.D., a member of the Managed Healthcare Executive editorial advisory board, spoke with C. Daniels Mullins, Ph.D., a professor of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy in Baltimore and a pioneer in incorporating the patient point of view into research and healthcare.

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C. Daniel Mullins, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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November 18, 2025

“The fundamental question that’s presented to you as legislators is, do we value communicative privacy, and, if we do, how are we going to protect it?” David Gray, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, asked at an Annapolis hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.

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David Gray, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 18, 2025

But modern technology has led to some tricky interpreations of the law, said David Gray, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, who participated in the briefing. 

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David Gray, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 17, 2025

“In my mind, this is the first evidence of how to reverse rejection,” says Muhammad Mohiuddin, a clinician researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, who led the into a living person in 2022.

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Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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November 17, 2025

Mark Graber, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said he believes Maryland’s redistricting effort will end up in court. The timeline, however, would likely depend on the initial ruling and then see it unfold.

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Carey School of Law

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November 14, 2025

“In my mind, this is the first evidence of how to reverse rejection,” says Muhammad Mohiuddin, a clinician researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, who led the first pig-heart transplant into a living person in 2022.

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Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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November 14, 2025

Andrew Coop, PhD, has spent the last year as chair of the State of Maryland’s Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances, which focused on the use of psilocybin/psilocin (derived from “magic mushrooms”), mescaline (derived from cacti), and dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is often used in ayahuasca.

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Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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November 13, 2025

“What would need to be different about this map that lawmakers could potentially produce that would not end up in court like so many people are talking about. well, it will end up in court, no matter what. but what maryland legislators would have to do is create a map that was consistent with the constitutional principle one person, one vote consistent with the Maryland constitutional requirement that districts be continuous."

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Mark Graber, JD, PhD

Carey School of Law

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November 13, 2025

“In practical terms, this change means doctors can discuss HRT with patients without an automatic black mark in the fine print. It’s a powerful signal: Hormone therapy is safe for most healthy women close to menopause, and the old warnings have been based on distorted risk perceptions,” said Dr. Marie Nakhoul, an OB-GYN at the 91大神 Medical Center and assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Marie R. Nakhoul, MD

School of Medicine

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November 12, 2025

The surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Bartley Griffith of the 91大神, said the latent virus may have “hitched a ride” in the transplanted organ and may have been responsible for the recipient’s rapid decline and death.

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Bartley P. Griffith, MD

School of Medicine

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November 11, 2025

Maryland Carey Law Adjunct Professor Ward Morrow spoke to FOX 45 about a Maryland nonprofit that helps school districts, including Baltimore City Public Schools, hire educators and is facing questions about its finances, legal disputes and how it uses taxpayer dollars.

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Ward Morrow, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 11, 2025

“It’s an autoimmune condition where you have antibodies that attack the pancreatic beta cells— the cells that make insulin—and they destroy those cells,” Rozalina McCoy, MD, associate division chief for clinical research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the 91大神 School of Medicine tells SELF. “That is what causes insulin deficiency.”

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Rozalina McCoy, MD

School of Medicine

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November 11, 2025

“It’s an autoimmune condition where you have antibodies that attack the pancreatic beta cells— the cells that make insulin—and they destroy those cells,” Rozalina McCoy, MD, associate division chief for clinical research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the 91大神 School of Medicine tells SELF. “That is what causes insulin deficiency.”

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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November 10, 2025

Four in 10 Americans said they have forgone medical treatment altogether because of the price, with 29% saying they have done so multiple times. Dr. Omer Awan, senior public health contributor for Forbes, said health insurance has become a point of stress for many Americans.

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Omer Awan, MD,MPH

School of Medicine

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November 7, 2025

“It should be zero out of 10 Americans,” Dr. Omer Awan said. “We are one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest, nations on the globe. It is unacceptable that 40% of Americans can’t afford health care. If you look at health care insurance, it should be a source of protection, but I’m afraid it has become a source of stress and anxiety for Americans because of high deductibles, high copays and surprise bills they’re not aware of.”

 

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Omer A. Awan, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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November 7, 2025

Mark Graber, a constitutional law professor at the 91大神’s Francis King Carey Law School in Baltimore, said the lawsuits are political in the sense that only Democratic attorneys general are suing the Trump administration. On the other hand, Graber said those prosecutors are opposing certain actions by the administration.

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Mark Graber, JD, PhD

Carey School of Law

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November 7, 2025

The authors, led by Andy Coop, a professor at 91大神’s School of Pharmacy, suggest an “ensemble approach” to legalize, deprioritize and build safe, licensed distribution of the drugs.

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Andy Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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November 6, 2025

“The spread of H5N1 influenza in animals with spillover into human populations globally highlights the critical need for effective countermeasures to protect our communities from this and other pathogens with pandemic potential,” said senior author Justin Ortiz, MD, MS, professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) and vaccine researcher at the university’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD).

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Justin R. Ortiz, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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November 6, 2025

“This report represents an unprecedented collaborative effort drawing on Maryland’s legacy and leadership in psychedelic science,” Andrew Coop, chair of the task force and a professor at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, said in a press release. “Our goal has been to provide evidence-based recommendations that prioritize public health, patient safety, equity, and scientific integrity.”

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Dr. Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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November 6, 2025

Simeon Taylor, MD, PhD, professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore, told Medscape Medical News, “a number of companies tried unsuccessfully in the early 21st century to discover and develop orally bioavailable small molecule GLP1 receptor agonists [RA]. So the development of small molecule GLP1 R agonists is a truly remarkable scientific accomplishment.” 

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Simeon I. Taylor, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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November 5, 2025

It took less than a week for the police to track down two of the suspects who they say broke into the Louvre and made off with eight of France’s historic crown jewels. A third person, a suspected accomplice, was tracked down on Wednesday.

In all three cases, DNA was an essential part of the search.

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Natalie Ram, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 5, 2025

The 91大神 School of Graduate Studies has partnered with the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the 91大神 Medical Center to launch the nation’s first graduate program focusing on the study of trauma systems, 91大神, Baltimore officials announced.

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Kenneth Wong, PhD

School of Graduate Studies, School of Medicine

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November 5, 2025

“I view bar passage as a core obligation to students,” Renée Laurent, dean of Maryland Carey Law, said in an interview. “We want students thinking about the bar from the minute they walk in the door.” 

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Renée Laurent, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 5, 2025

The next time you visit the dentist, you may need to field a couple questions about your marijuana habits. That’s because of the growing awareness among dentists that heavy cannabis use may result in significantly higher risk of head and neck cancer.

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John Brooks, DDS

School of Dentistry

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November 4, 2025

Mark Graber, a constitutional law professor at the 91大神, said the closest analog might be when Clement Vallandigham, a member of Congress from Ohio, was arrested for protesting the Civil War.

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Mark A. Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 3, 2025

The consequences of high costs can be life-threatening, said , a professor at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy who specializes in diabetes management.

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Charmaine Rochester-Eyeguokan, PharmD, CDE, BCACP

School of Pharmacy

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November 2, 2025

Op-ed authored by Mark A. Graber on Justice Amy Coney Barrett's biography, "Listening to the Law."

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Mark A. Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 30, 2025

Farinaz Seifi, MD, OB/GYN at the 91大神 Medical Center, where she serves as Vice Chair of Gynecology & Gynecology Subspecialities, said that patients often go home the same day.

“Recovery may take only two to four weeks, compared to the old method which could entail a hospital stay of two to three days and require a recovery period of six to eight weeks,” she explained.

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Farinaz Seifi, MD

School of Medicine

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October 29, 2025

Martha Jurczak, assistant dean for business and economic development at the UMD School of Medicine , said the collaboration aims to connect people with an addiction to already established services. Jurczak is the principal investigator who initiated BCORE. She is also collaborating with Eric Weintraub, a professor of psychiatry at the medical school.

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Martha Jurczak, MFA

School of Medicine

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October 29, 2025

In an interview, Renée Hutchins Laurent, dean of the 91大神 Carey School of Law, said she was glad the shutdown didn’t disrupt the much larger July test. She said she appreciated the court working with law school leadership, adding the court’s announcement was “not new news for us.” 

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Renée Hutchins Laurent, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 29, 2025

"The rule is designed to make it far easier for manufacturers of toxic and potentially toxic chemicals to win approval from EPA to market their products without taking the time to conduct adequate risk assessments," Rena Steinzor, a professor of law at the 91大神, Baltimore, told Newsweek.

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Rena Steinzor, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 28, 2025

Leigh Goodmark, the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the 91大神 Carey School of Law, is the author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence. “We have this picture of safety that says, once we make this arrest, the survivor is safe, and that’s just not true,” Goodmark said at a virtual symposium on domestic violence in September. Incarceration can worsen factors that contribute to abuse; the arrested person may lose a job or access to housing. 

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 28, 2025

The 91大神 School of Social Work plans to launch a new Doctor of Social Work program in fall 2026, the school announced. The application period opens Oct. 28.The new advanced-practice doctorate is designed to prepare graduates of the Master of Social Work program – with at least two years of post-graduate practice experience – for leadership roles in academic, agency and private practice settings.

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October 28, 2025

Markus Rauschecker, Director of the 91大神 Center for Cyber, Health and Hazard Strategies, joins the show to talk about data security and what Marylanders can expect in the future when it comes to their personal information online.

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Markus Rauschecker, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 25, 2025

“I think that’s one reason why Trump didn’t try to do this in his first term,” said Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the 91大神’s law school. “They were warned that it was too dangerous to open up this Pandora’s box.”

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Robert Percival

Carey School of Law

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October 25, 2025

“We talked about itch and malignancy, how new onset itch within 3 months or a year is slightly more associated with malignancy,” said Shawn Kwatra, MD, in an interview with Dermatology Times at the 2025 Fall Clinical Dermatology Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Shawn Gaurav Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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October 23, 2025

91大神 School of Social Work Event Specialist Khalil Bishop talks with WBAL-TV about preparing homelessness survival kits being donated to "Health Care for the Homeless."

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Khalil Bishop

School of Social Work

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October 23, 2025

The uptick in disordered gambling is “concerning” according to Jessica P. Brown, research director at the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling at the 91大神 School of Medicine, which created the report.

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Jessica P. Brown, PhD

School of Medicine

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October 21, 2025

“While prior studies have established an association between risperidone and increased cerebrovascular events, this study offers novel insights by stratifying risk across subgroups with and without preexisting CVD or stroke,” Kheirbek told Medscape Medical News.

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Raya E. Kheirbek, MD

School of Medicine

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October 21, 2025

The 91大神, Baltimore, partnered with Axis Research & Technologies to develop the nation’s first AI-powered smart surgical performance center.

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October 21, 2025

"This new monoclonal antibody could transform how we prevent in young children and pregnant women," said lead author Kirsten E. Lyke, Professor of Medicine at the varsity’s School of Medicine.

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Kirsten E. Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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October 21, 2025

Those themes are reiterated in an in the journal Public Health Nursing. The author, , is a registered nurse and assistant professor of family and community health at the 91大神 School of Nursing.

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Megan Doede, PhD, RN

School of Nursing

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October 21, 2025

“If you look at Johns Hopkins University and its hospitals, the 91大神, Baltimore, and its four hospitals through the 91大神 Medical System, just in Baltimore, collectively, we contribute $25 billion of economic impact, $5 billion research expenditures and support 70,000 jobs,” said Mark Gladwin, dean of the 91大神 School of Medicine, during the symposium.

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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October 20, 2025

“There are certainly ways to make your interactions more personal without investing large amounts of extra time,” said Alden Littlewood, MD, chief of psychiatry, 91大神 Medical Center Midtown Campus, and assistant professor, 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore. 

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Alden D.C. Littlewood, MD

School of Medicine

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October 20, 2025

Emerson Wickwire, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and section head of sleep medicine at 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, said the new analysis is a welcome addition to the literature. 

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Emerson Wickwire

School of Medicine

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October 18, 2025

Maryland Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that guidance released this week on partnerships between local agencies and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] was meant to help law enforcement “navigate” the current political climate. But two Maryland sheriffs called it a political stunt.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 18, 2025

“It’s actually not surprising that ICE is going after the people who are most compliant with the law,” said Cori Alonso-Yoder, director of the Immigration Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law. “They are the people who are easiest for ICE to encounter and to enforce upon.”

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 18, 2025

Lauren Schuyler, assistant research director for family welfare research at the 91大神 School of Social Work, said her team documented similar results in a study that examined the effects of potential work requirements in Maryland. “The research is clear: SNAP work requirements do not improve employment or earnings outcomes. Instead, they result in benefit loss for low-income individuals and families,” she told Newsweek.

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Lauren Schuyler, PhD

School of Social Work

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October 16, 2025

“Healthy sleep is necessary for a sound mind and a strong body. Sleep impacts virtually every bodily function and organ system, from the skin to the heart to the lungs to the brain,” says a sleep medicine professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Emerson Wickwire, PhD

School of Medicine

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October 16, 2025

Daniel Bergman, PhD, who is a scientist at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the 91大神 School of Medicine, said these findings highlight the limitations of relying exclusively on AI for clinical and biological questions. “Such limitations of AI are widely acknowledged, and we believe integrating AI into computational modeling, eg, virtual cells, provides a path for turning AI-driven analyses into interpretable and thus actionable insights,” he said.

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Daniel Bergman, PhD

School of Medicine

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October 10, 2025

Much of the work in mental health, particularly crisis intervention and services for people with serious mental illness, takes place in residential settings such as the one in Pikesville, said Jay Unick, a professor and behavioral health services researcher at the 91大神 School of Social Work.

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Jay Unick, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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October 9, 2025

Mark Graber, a legal historian at the 91大神 who has written extensively about the relationship between the president and state militias, filed amicus briefs in the Portland and Los Angeles cases explaining that the law allowing for the federalization of the National Guard may be invoked “only in response to a war or warlike conditions” and that judges are perfectly capable of assessing these “objective” criteria. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 9, 2025

“These results are highly encouraging,” said study lead investigator ,  Professor of Medicine at UM School of Medicine and Chief of the Adult Clinical Studies section within CVD. “They show that TSCV has the potential to protect children in regions where both typhoid and salmonella are endemic and deadly.”

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 Wilbur Chen, MD, MS '08

School of Medicine

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October 9, 2025

“Parents and caregivers of children aged 14 to 17 , making them subject to inflexible work requirements and time-limited benefits,” she told Newsweek. When that happens, she warned, “caregivers lose SNAP benefits, their children lose SNAP benefits, too, ultimately reducing access to nutritious food.”

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Lauren Schuyler, PhD

School of Social Work

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October 8, 2025

“Our goal for the community materials is that they are easily accessible and understandable, so community partners feel comfortable using VDRS data to inform their own violence intervention and prevention efforts,” Graham said in a statement.

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Laurie Graham, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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October 7, 2025

“Carbon monoxide is the most common poison in America and in the world, and there’s no antidote for it,” said Dr. Mark Gladwin, dean of the School of Medicine and principal investigator of the lab which produced the study.

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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October 6, 2025

Medical experts in Maryland are observing a rise in hand, foot and mouth disease cases.

We spoke with Dr. Matthew Laurens, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the 91大神 School of Medicine, who emphasized the importance of taking precautions to reduce the risk. 

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Matthew Laurens, MD

School of Medicine

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October 6, 2025

"If you get cold fast enough, it can protect you for a long time," explained Dr. Samuel Tisherman, a professor of surgery at the 91大神 School of Medicine who studies how hypothermia could be used as a therapeutic measure in cases of cardiac arrest due to trauma. "There are numerous reports of people drowning in very cold water and being underwater for upwards of an hour and surviving."

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Samuel Tisherman, MD

School of Medicine

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October 6, 2025

The U.S. military is a volunteer fighting force but while in the service, soldiers can’t pick and choose which orders to follow. Doing so could lead to serious consequences, including years in prison, according to Steve Levin, a 91大神 Carey School of Law professor.

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Steven Levin, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 2, 2025

Op-ed authored by Braxton Mitchell, PhD, MPH, professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD, MPH

School of Medicine

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October 2, 2025

Erica J. Suter, 49, is the new director of the Innocence Project Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Erica J. Suter, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 1, 2025

Mark Graber, a professor at the 91大神’s Carey School of Law, , “There is a reason to settle, but it has little to do with the law. The present Supreme Court doctrine is very clear that private companies need not give anyone a right of access.”

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Mark Graber

Carey School of Law

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October 1, 2025

As alcohol travels through your esophagus, it can injure tissue in the esophagus. It also relaxes the lower esophagus, which can allow stomach acid to splash back up into it, says Ekta Gupta, MBBS, a gastroenterologist at the 91大神 Medical Center and an associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Ekta Gupta, MBBS

School of Medicine

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October 1, 2025

“There is a reason to settle, but it has little to do with the law,” which is “very clear that private companies need not give anyone a right of access,” 91大神 law professor Mark Graber told the Journal.

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Mark Graber

Carey School of Law

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October 1, 2025

Every year, thousands of Americans lose a limb to a disease most have never heard of: peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Affecting as many as 12 million people, roughly one in 20 adults over 60, PAD is the nation’s leading cause of amputations. Yet it remains underdiagnosed, undertreated, and devastatingly unequal in its impact.

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Yvette Conyers, DNP, RN, FNP-C, CTN-B, CFCN, CFCS, CNE, FADLN, CWCN-AP

School of Nursing

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September 30, 2025

A key lesson learned during our evaluation of Promise Heights Promise Neighborhood was the importance of strong partnerships between schools and community. Promise Heights successfully built partnerships with schools, community organizations, and families.

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Wendy Shaia, EdD, MSW '01

School of Social Work

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September 29, 2025

A new achievement by researchers at the 91大神 School of Medicine is redefining that story. They developed an engineered protein treatment that can efficiently reduce carbon monoxide levels in the blood quicker than oxygen treatment, without the toxic side effects that have limited current methods.

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Mark Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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September 29, 2025

“School mental health is usually a multi-disciplinary effort that doesn’t just fall under the umbrella of school psychologists,” said Sharon Hoover, a former co-director of the National Center for School Mental Health and a professor emeritus of child and adolescent psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Sharon Hoover, PhD

School of Medicine

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September 29, 2025

Braxton Mitchell, a professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine who has worked with Amish communities for more than 30 years, said it’s not true that the Amish categorically reject vaccines and pills, and not true that they have no autism at all.

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Braxton Mitchell, PhD, MPH

School of Medicine

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September 29, 2025

"Wearing approved safety glasses when doing activities like grinding metal, woodworking or yard work is the best way to prevent debris from entering your eyes," says Shihij Takoo, OD, MS, optometrist at 91大神 Eye Associates and clinical instructor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the 91大神 School of Medicine. 

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Shihij Takoo, OD, MS

School of Medicine

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September 26, 2025

There “has been very little systematic data collected about autism in the Amish community,” says Braxton Mitchell, who has worked with the Amish as co-director of the Amish Research Clinic in Lancaster County. The clinic is associated with the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD, MPH

School of Medicine

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September 26, 2025

As for the other AI, artificial intelligence, researchers from the 91大神 School of Medicine completed a study where they developed a new way to use an AI tool to scan notes in electronic medical records to find high-risk patients who may have been infected with avian influenza.

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September 25, 2025

Some experts, however, still have worries over the conflicts inside the federal government. That could mean that use of the vaccine would be considered “off-label,” and not offered by pharmacies to everyone, according to Deanna Tran, associate professor at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Deanna Tran, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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September 25, 2025

Braxton Mitchell, an epidemiologist at the 91大神 School of Medicine who has worked with the Amish community for 30 years, said his group has confirmed there is autism in the community. He said Tylenol is used by many Amish and some choose to vaccinate their children, others do not.

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Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD, MPH

School of Medicine

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September 25, 2025

 A change in the safety labels on Tylenol and other acetaminophen products could be a game changer for people claiming they weren’t properly warned about possible links between the pain reliever and autism, according to the law firm of the late Peter Angelos.

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 24, 2025

At the same time, RSV continued to wreak havoc on other children, hospitalizing about 2 to 3 percent of all babies under one year old from approximately November to March each year, according to James Campbell, an infectious disease pediatrician at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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James Campbell, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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September 24, 2025

Braxton Mitchell, an epidemiologist at the 91大神 School of Medicine who has worked with the Amish community for 30 years, said his group has confirmed there is autism in the community. He said Tylenol is used by many Amish and some choose to vaccinate their children, others do not.

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Braxton Mitchell, MD

School of Medicine

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September 24, 2025

Cori Alonso-Yoder, director of the immigration clinic at the 91大神 law school, told CNN that the changes to the US visa system, including increased vetting, “is generating a high level of anxiety and confusion.” 

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Cori Alonso-Yoder, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 24, 2025

Braxton Mitchell, an epidemiologist at the 91大神 School of Medicine who has worked with the Amish community for 30 years, said his group has confirmed there is autism in the community. He said Tylenol is used by many Amish and some choose to vaccinate their children, others do not.

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Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD, MPH

School of Medicine

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September 23, 2025

Marissa Lawson, a 24-year-old legal assistant at the Murphy firm and 3rd year law student at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said Greeley is known for her sharp analytical thinking and is quick to challenge the lawyers when she disagrees with their strategy.

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September 23, 2025

“Someone may become drowsy but also not have the strength to avoid a fall,” said , chair of geriatric pharmacotherapy at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Nicole Brandt, PharmD

School of Pharmacy

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September 22, 2025

"It’s an absolutely confusing time," said Dr. Jim Campbell, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at UMB reacting to the mix of federal recommendations and local requirements families now face.

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James D. Campbell, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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September 22, 2025

"For me, as a pharmacist listening to these conversations, it was just really daunting," said Cherokee Layson-Wolf, professor at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy.

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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September 19, 2025

Since President Donald Trump took office, Maryland immigration attorneys have seen more arrests and an increase in cases.

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Maureen Sweeney, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 17, 2025

"The message to parents is that the HPV vaccination is an incredibly effective vaccine that reduces the risk of getting any of six different types of cancers. So, vaccinating a child between the ages of 9 and 12 shows strong protection against these cancers," said Dr. Clement Adebamowo with the 91大神 Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Clement A. Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS

School of Medicine

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September 17, 2025

Infectious disease physician Dr. Wilbur Chen, endowed professor at the 91大神’s school of medicine, said the committee’s decisions have the ability to impact public health throughout the U.S.

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Wilbur Chen, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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September 17, 2025

“What is happening to people who reject the canonization of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy and a disgrace,” said Mark A. Graber, a regents professor of law at the 91大神, and a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics.

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Mark A. Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 17, 2025

“By providing targeted academic, financial, and professional development support, the fellowship equips participants to transition effectively from undergraduate training through graduate education and into the workforce,” says Temeka Bailey, PhD, LCSWC, LICSW, director of SWCOS student education at the 91大神 School of Social Work.

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Temeka Bailey, PhD, LCSWC, LICSW

School of Social Work

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September 17, 2025

Mark A. Graber, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, supported the idea of increased transparency — but drew a line at punishment. “Right now, you have to be a diligent researcher to discover what a judge could do,” Graber said. “It would not be a sin, liberal, conservative or otherwise, to create a database where it would be a lot easier to research what this judge is doing.”

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Mark Graber, PhD, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 16, 2025

joins Tom in the studio. She is a practicing attorney who has been actively supporting the Innocence Project’s mission here in Maryland. Recently, she represented Adnan Syed in his successful bid for freedom from a life-sentence for a 1999 murder he says he didn’t commit

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Erica J. Suter, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 16, 2025

The 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law is celebrating the launch of its new innocence clinic with a screening of a documentary about an exonerated man on Wednesday evening. 

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Erica J. Suter, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 16, 2025

In 2022, a heart xenotransplant from a gene-edited pig was performed at the 91大神 School of Medicine, spearheaded by pioneer Muhammed Mohiuddin. 

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September 15, 2025

For decades, US states have fought male violence against spouses and partners on two fronts: with mandatory arrests and prosecutions, and through programs focused on reeducating men about their attitudes toward women.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 15, 2025

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired after posting about political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

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Mark Graber, PhD, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 14, 2025

On his social media timelines, Ryan Fournier has been highlighting posts made by people celebrating the killing of his close friend, the conservative activist Charlie Kirk — particularly those who’ve lost their jobs because of the comments. Some of those Fournier has triumphantly reposted with messages like, “GOOD RIDDANCE!”

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Mark Graber, PhD, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 14, 2025

As the Trump administration has continued its monthslong immigration enforcement blitz, its tactics – including large-scale workplace raids and the use of masked officers – have sparked condemnation from advocates and civil rights groups.

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Maureen Sweeney, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 12, 2025

The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is one of the few vaccines proven to prevent cancer-so why have only 61% of teens 13-17 and far lower percentages of younger children received the potentially life-saving shots?

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Clement A. Adebamowo, BM, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS

School of Medicine

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September 11, 2025

“We want a treatment that you can give in the field,” says study author , dean of the 91大神 School of Medicine. He says RcoM-HBD-CCC could be injected into people on their way to the hospital in an ambulance or to people with low oxygen levels at the site of fires.

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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September 11, 2025

Sept. 11, 2001, was a turning point in American history. It was also the day Michael Vesely’s life changed forever.

Vesely was an undergraduate senior at the 91大神, College Park. He had plans to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy. But the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people led him on another career path.

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Michael Vesely, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 10, 2025

Richard Barth, a distinguished professor in the School of Social Work at the 91大神, Baltimore, thinks the increase in beds and placement options is a “significant step forward.”

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Richard Barth, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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September 9, 2025

“As an anchor institution, UMB is deeply committed to the health, safety, and well-being of our community,” said UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell in a statement. “The SOC reflects that commitment by uniting agencies and community organizations in a single, coordinated effort. By working together in real time, we can respond to our community more effectively while building stronger trust and lasting change.” 

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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September 9, 2025

Most people understand that making an investment in your physical health, like quitting smoking or getting in shape, could lead to a longer, healthier life. It turns out that the same can be said for investing in your personal relationships. Spending time with friends and family—or signing up for a recreational sports league team—could pay dividends down the road. 

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Tara LeGates, PhD

School of Medicine

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September 8, 2025

 Law professor Maureen A. Sweeney, who serves as the faculty director of the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice at the 91大神 Carey School of Law, saidthe Trump administration is being “extremely smart” in its more aggressive strategy that threatens to deport people to faraway countries they have never seen before. “There is nothing under the law that keeps them from doing this,” Sweeney said. 

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Maureen Sweeney, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 8, 2025

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, a professor in the department of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, told Healthcare Brew her biggest concern is how the deal will affect patient access to pharmacies.

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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September 8, 2025

Mark Graber, a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics at the 91大神, expects the administration to ultimately lose the case. “This is an issue that really splits the Trump coalition,” he said. “If it splits the Trump coalition, it probably splits the Trump coalition on the bench.”

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 4, 2025

Opioid Conversion Ratio tables are a useful tool for practitioners working with patients experiencing pain. It is critically important that we use the strongest evidence available, and use good clinical judgement throughout the process.” – Mary Lynn McPherson

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Mary Lynn McPherson

School of Pharmacy

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September 4, 2025

“In general, we’re seeing that individuals are being diagnosed with cancer at a younger age,” said Dr. Shana Ntiri, associate professor of family and community medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine, who also oversees the Baltimore City Cancer Program.

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Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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September 3, 2025

Mark Graber, a law professor at the 91大神, said there are several reasons that the Supreme Court is likely to take a critical look at Trump’s position in the tariff case. For one, he said, there is no indication that the statute Trump invoked contemplated a president constantly imposing and adjusting tariffs in response to chronic issues like drug smuggling and trade imbalances. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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September 3, 2025

“If we were willing to actually look at this as an economic problem, I truly believe we would make a greater dent in the rate of violence than with any other kind of intervention,” says legal scholar Leigh Goodmark of the 91大神 Carey School of Law. 

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Leigh Goodmark

Carey School of Law

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September 3, 2025

"Smartphone pinky is an informal term people are using to describe a dent or groove that sometimes forms on the pinky finger, usually where the bottom edge of a phone rests during prolonged use," explains Samuel T. Dona, Jr., MD, a sports medicine physiatrist at the 91大神 Medical Center and assistant professor in the departments of orthopaedics and neurology at the 91大神 School of Medicine. 

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Samuel T. Dona, MD

School of Medicine

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September 3, 2025

 If you’ve ever traveled on an airplane with your child and watched them struggle with ear pain, that helpless feeling as a parent is hard to forget. You’ve also probably heard advice about how to ease the pressure during a flight, which is especially acute during takeoff and landing.  

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David J. Eisenman, MD

School of Medicine

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September 3, 2025

We spoke with Sarah Edwards, DO and associate professor in the department of psychiatry and pediatrics at 91大神 School of Medicine and director in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and medical director of child and adolescent psychiatry services at 91大神 Children’s Hospital, to learn about how parents can recognize school-year stressors in their child and help them manage them to support a happy and healthy school year.

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Sarah Edwards, DO

School of Medicine

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September 2, 2025

Micah Yarbrough, director of bar programs for the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said the NCBE made some changes to the NextGen exam after receiving feedback from those who took the field test, but could not elaborate on specific comments from exam takers.

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Micah Yarbrough

Carey School of Law

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September 2, 2025

Commentary by Maryland Carey Law Adjunct Professor James Astrachan.

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James Astrachan

Carey School of Law

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September 1, 2025

Jill Haak Bohnenkamp, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the National Center for School Mental Health, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine, noted, “We need to make sure we’re doing things to support strong teacher-student-caregiver relationships. We have not had as much of those things because of the pandemic, and they are critical pieces that build a student’s academic, social and emotional competencies.”

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Jill H. Bohnenkamp, PhD, MEd

School of Medicine

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August 30, 2025

Additionally, the FDA could further restrict the vaccines because of their perceived safety concerns, says Wilbur Chen, MD, chief of the adult clinical studies section within the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the 91大神 School of Medicine, and a former member of the ACIP.

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Wilbur H. Chen, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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August 29, 2025

“Never offer advice unless it is asked for, and sometimes not even then,” Geoff Greif, a professor at the 91大神 School of Social Work. “Don’t put your son in the middle. He will almost always side with his wife. And don’t bad-mouth her to him.”

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Geoffrey L. Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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August 29, 2025

, a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the 91大神 School of Medicine, knows this firsthand, having spent her career visiting schools and speaking with students navigating mental health challenges. 

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Sharon A. Hoover, PhD

School of Medicine

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August 29, 2025

“The most common poisoning in the world is carbon monoxide poisoning,” says biochemist Mark Gladwin of the 91大神 in Baltimore. In the United States alone, more than 50,000 people seek emergency care every year and roughly 1,500 die. “And we really don’t have an antidote.”

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Mark Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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August 29, 2025

It isn't as if emergency rooms are empty when mass shooting victims arrive, said Dr. Thomas Scalea, physician-in-chief at the 91大神 R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Officials need to prepare for an unpredictable influx of people from a mass shooting.

"It's terrible, it's nuts, but it is the world in which we live," he told USA TODAY. "Now, nobody says, 'Is this going to happen again?' Everybody just says, 'When?'"

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Thomas Scalea, MD

School of Medicine

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August 29, 2025

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, from the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy (UMSOP), says access in pharmacies may vary depending on state regulations.  

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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August 29, 2025

 “If we were willing to actually look at this as an economic problem, I truly believe we would make a greater dent in the rate of violence than with any other kind of intervention,” says legal scholar Leigh Goodmark of the 91大神 Carey School of Law, author of a 2022 critique of the Violence Against Women Act in the Annual Review of Criminology.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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August 29, 2025

Gerald Kayingo is the inaugural Leslie S. Robinson, MD Endowed Professor and Chair of Health Professions Education at the 91大神, Baltimore’s School of Graduate Studies.

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Gerald Kayingo, PhD, MMSC, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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August 28, 2025

“Thanks to the VOCA funding the Care Clinic receives through the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy, we’ve been able to deliver comprehensive services to victims that are high-quality, evidence-based, and delivered by well-trained staff,” said 91大神 Baltimore Center for Families Care Clinic Director April Rectanus.

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April Rectanus, LCPC, EdD

School of Medicine

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August 27, 2025

Mark Graber, regents professor at the 91大神 School of Law, believes that the case was more of a stunt than an earnest legal challenge from the Trump administration.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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August 26, 2025

“Unlike other protein-based treatments, we found the compound caused only minimal changes in blood pressure, which was an exciting finding and raised the potential for this new molecule to have clinical applications,” study author Mark T. Gladwin, M.D., in a news release. 

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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August 26, 2025

“There are many studies underway, but the most evidence [for ketogenic diets] is in bipolar, schizophrenia and depression,” said Deanna L. Kelly, PharmD, BCPP, the Dr. William and Carol Carpenter Professor of Psychiatry for Mental Illness Research at the 91大神 School of Medicine, in Baltimore.

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Deanna L. Kelly, PharmD, BCPP

School of Pharmacy

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August 26, 2025

Insurance companies can’t control the price they pay for care. But in deference to their bottom line, they can control whether a patient receives certain treatments or not by creating roadblocks for approval, said Howard Haft, a professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine and primary care provider in Somerset County.

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Howard M. Haft, MD, MMM

School of Medicine

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August 26, 2025

Lungs are the most difficult organ to transplant, says Muhammad Mohiuddin, a surgeon and researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, who in 2022 led the first pig–heart transplant into a living person. Lungs have the most blood vessels of any transplantable organ, so they are more prone to attack from the immune system, which can lead to blood clots and tissue damage, says Mohiuddin. 

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Muhammad Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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August 24, 2025

91大神 School of Social Work Distinguished Professor Richard P. Barth said that if a parent is charged with a drug offense, police are supposed to notify social services so that a caseworker can meet with the family and assess the situation.

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Richard Barth, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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August 21, 2025

White-tailed deer in states from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin are being spotted with skin covered in fleshy bubbles. Photos and videos online show animals with tumor-like lumps on their heads, necks, and legs. While unsettling to see, experts say the growths are not new and have a clear cause.

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Omer Anwan, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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August 20, 2025

The company is currently conducting a Phase 2 study of rhu-pGSN for decompression sickness under a contract awarded by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research to the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM). This work is the culmination of an extended collaboration with Dr. Stephen Thom, Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMSOM.

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Stephen R. Thom, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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August 20, 2025

Stacey Stephens, Elev8 Baltimore board member/91大神 School of Social Work professor, and Sir Stephens, Baltimore County Public Schools special educator, at “Lights Camera Activ8!”

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Stacey Stephens, MSW, LCSW-C

School of Social Work

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August 19, 2025

But even if you start taking blood pressure medications, your doctor will still encourage healthy habits like regular exercise and a balanced diet, said Scott Jerome, MD, director of Ambulatory Services and Outreach for Cardiovascular Medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Scott Jerome, DO

School of Medicine

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August 18, 2025

Women, especially famous ones, sense that speaking out now is not just out of fashion, but carries real reputational risks. No one wants to be “the target of the administration’s ire,” says Leigh Goodmark, an expert in gender-based violence and the Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at 91大神 Carey School of Law.

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Leigh Goodmark

Carey School of Law

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August 17, 2025

Donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) is a biomarker that allows early detection of immune-mediated graft injury, Jonathan S. Bromberg, MD, PhD, a kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told Healio.

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Jonathan S. Bromberg, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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August 17, 2025

"Understanding that our city has had a legacy of harm, right, that there's been a lot of systemic things that have happened to families, to communities, and how do we get at the root causes of what some of the social problems that we see today..." says Stacey J. Wilson, LCSW-C.

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Stacey J. Wilson, LCSW-C

School of Social Work

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August 17, 2025

Certain humanitarian immigrant groups, such as survivors of trafficking, refugees and asylum seekers, will no longer be eligible for the food stamp program, according to Lauren Schuyler, assistant director of the 91大神’s Family Welfare Research.

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Lauren Schuyler, PhD

School of Social Work

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August 15, 2025

The summit was a day of rich dialogue, networking, and forward-looking strategy. The organizers framed the event as a turning point in Baltimore’s ongoing efforts to address health inequities, particularly those related to cardiovascular disease (CVD)—a condition that remains one of the city’s leading causes of death, disproportionately affecting Black residents.

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Esa Davis, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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August 15, 2025

“Some people have tried everything and come in with huge expectations of benefit. I won’t say I’m not enthusiastic, but it’s very difficult to disentangle those expectations from the actual pharmacological effects of psychedelics,” says Luana Colloca, PhD, who studies the role of placebo effects and expectations in pain treatment at the 91大神 in Baltimore. 

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

School of Nursing

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August 14, 2025

Monique Dixon, JD, executive director of the 91大神 Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law and Michael Pinard, JD, faculty director, discuss the work of the Center on WPFW's "What's at Stake" podcast. 

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Monique Dixon, JD Michael Pinard, JD

Carey School of Law

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August 14, 2025

91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, along with their colleagues, engineered a new molecule that appears promising as an effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side effects than other molecules currently being tested, according to a .

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Jason J. Rose, MBA, MD

School of Medicine

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August 12, 2025

“This is a report to pull all the information together—but we are to make recommendations of how we should move forward with the responsible use of psychedelics,” Andrew Coop, chair of the task force and a professor of pharmaceutical science who also serves as associate dean at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, told Marijuana Moment on Wednesday.

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Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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August 12, 2025

There is “a whole different set” of health risk factors for older drinkers, said Professor Paul Sacco, who teaches social work at the 91大神, Baltimore, and studies substance use and ageing. People might not realise that the drinks they used to tolerate well are affecting their brains and bodies differently, he added.

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Paul Sacco, PhD

School of Social Work

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August 9, 2025

Ocean City is pursuing every avenue in its ongoing fight to block an offshore wind farm — including one avenue that didn’t appear to exist until a month ago.

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Jon Mueller, JD

Carey School of Law

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August 7, 2025

This project showed that patients with cancer find education valuable and may consider current and future participation in clinical trials after engaging in the video education. The videos are freely available on Case Western Reserve University’s website and can be accessed with a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Consider using them in your patient education to help them explore participating in clinical trials.

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Leslie Greenberg, DNP, MBA, RN, CCRP, OCN

School of Nursing

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August 6, 2025

A new review article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by doctors at the 91大神 School of Medicine reveals a significant gap in long-term care for gunshot victims.

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Bethany Strong, MD

School of Medicine

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August 5, 2025

There are various reasons the cruise industry would choose to stay mum about the issue, said Cori Alonso-Yoder, director of the Immigration Clinic at the 91大神 law school. One, the industry is in the business of selling vacations, and publicly fighting immigration enforcement would clash with efforts to market the concept of escape.

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Cori Alonso-Yoder

Carey School of Law

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August 5, 2025

In January, the 91大神, Baltimore and Wexford Science + Technology completed 4MLK, a new 250,000-square-foot lab and office building located in the city’s BioPark. The project is a cornerstone of UMB’s strategy to bridge academic research with commercial opportunity, offering space for startups, private labs, and translational research partnerships.

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August 5, 2025

A Maryland scientist developed synthetic blood that could save lives when seconds count and fresh blood is out of reach. 

Dr. Allan Doctor is a professor-scientist at the 91大神 School of Medicine. His shelf-stable synthetic blood product is called ArithroMir. 

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Allan Doctor, MD

School of Medicine

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August 5, 2025

Mark Graber, a law professor at the 91大神, described the situation by email. “Both Republican and Democratic judicial appointees have found numerous constitutional and statutory flaws with Trump administration policies.”

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Mark Graber, JD, Phd, MA

Carey School of Law

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August 4, 2025

The review’s authors, led by Dr. Bethany Strong, assistant professor of surgery at UMSOM, and Dr. Thomas Scalea, renowned trauma surgeon and Physician-in-Chief at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, advocate for a transformative leap in clinical practice. 

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August 3, 2025

Dr. Lisa Shulman, a professor of neurology at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told American Heart Association News that the death of a loved one triggers the body's "fight or flight" response: "Your heart starts racing, your blood pressure increases, your respiratory rate increases, you become sweaty, as the body marshals defenses for you to protect yourself, one way or another."

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Lisa Shulman, MD

School of Medicine

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August 1, 2025

Maryland Carey Law’s new exoneration project is set to be run by Erica Suter, who is a public defender assistant and former director of UBalt Law’s MOPD Innocence Project Clinic. She’s most known for being the post-conviction attorney who worked to free Adnan Syed.

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Erica J. Suter, JD

Carey School of Law

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August 1, 2025

A record share of U.S. kindergartners had an exemption for a required vaccination last school year, and coverage for all reported vaccines – including the measles vaccine – was lower than the year before, according to new published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Esther K. Liu, MD

School of Medicine

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July 31, 2025

Heat exhaustion is the most common heat-related illnesses that Cheyenne Falat, the assistant medical director at the Adult Emergency Department of the 91大神 Medical Center, said she sees in the department.

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Cheyenne Falat, MD

School of Medicine

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July 31, 2025

"Let's say there was a patient who was scheduled to come in tomorrow," says C. Daniel Mullins, a professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research (P-SHOR) and executive director of the PATIENTS Program at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy in Baltimore. "All of a sudden, we said we can't bring you in to be in our research because our research just got shut down."

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C. Daniel Mullins

School of Pharmacy

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July 30, 2025

Some canceled university research grants are in flux as the Trump administration appeals a lower-court decision blocking its grant cancellations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

But that’s not stopping some of the research from continuing — for now.

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Daniel Mullins, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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July 28, 2025

A one-of-a-kind painting has been discovered in a closet in a permanently closed Baltimore seafood restaurant. The 1844 oil portrait depicts John Beale Davidge, an American doctor who co-founded the 91大神 School of Medicine in the early 19th century.

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Larry Pitrof

School of Medicine

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July 28, 2025

“Over a third of patients in the ‘last resort’ group took no opioids at all after surgery,” senior researcher , chair of orthopedics at the 91大神 School of Medicine, said in a news release. “In contrast, 9 of 10 patients in the standard-of-care group used opioids after surgery.”

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R. Frank Henn III, MD

School of Medicine

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July 28, 2025

New data shows that alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy caused by tick bites, may also trigger an adverse reaction in common dental products. But how?

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School of Dentistry

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July 26, 2025

“This will result in benefit loss for older adults and caregivers, despite evidence that work requirements do not increase employment but do reduce access to food assistance,” Schuyler said in a statement.

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Lauren Schuyler, PhD

School of Social Work

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July 25, 2025

“We don’t know everything. But it’s another step closer connecting the dots about these illnesses,” Deanna L. Kelly, a psychiatry professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine who has spent the past 15 years leading clinical trials in schizophrenia and severe mental illness, told the Telegraph.

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Deanna L. Kelly, PharmD, BCPP

School of Medicine

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July 25, 2025

Researchers at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) have developed new software that does just that—predicting how cancer cells grow, spread, and interact by merging real patient genomics data with mathematical modeling. 

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Daniel Bergman, PhD

School of Medicine

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July 25, 2025

Researchers at Indiana University and at 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), have developed a method to predict cell activity in tissues over time, similarly to how weather forecast models can predict developing storms.

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Daniel Bergman, PhD

School of Medicine

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July 24, 2025

Geoffrey L. Greif, a professor at the 91大神 School of Social Work and co-author of Adult Sibling Relationships, says his research found that about 15% to 20% consider their siblings close friends.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD

School of Social Work

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July 23, 2025

A previously unknown 19th-century portrait of the founder of the 91大神 School of Medicine was recently discovered in — of all places — the storage closet of a defunct Baltimore seafood restaurant.

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July 22, 2025

The trick, says Dr. Resnick, is to optimize what patients can do instead of doing everything for them. People with , for example, often have difficulty with fine motor skills like buttoning a shirt. Caregivers might want to button the shirt for the person because they can do it more quickly.

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Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP

School of Nursing

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July 22, 2025

Even With Today’s Political Polarization, Could Secession Occur?

Mark Graber, University System of Maryland Regents Professor at 91大神 School of Law, does not view secession as viable.

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Mark Graber

Carey School of Law

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July 22, 2025

OSA and other clinical sleep disorders are common among military personnel, driven in part by demanding, nontraditional work schedules that can exacerbate sleep problems, but OSA’s impact in this population has not been well-studied, Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD, of the 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore, and colleagues wrote in a new paper published in Chest.

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Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD

School of Medicine

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July 21, 2025

Allan Doctor's team makes this synthetic blood from the protein that nourishes the body with oxygen, called hemoglobin. They extract hemoglobin from expired blood and slip it inside a fat bubble to create artificial red blood cells. That's the new trick that Doctor thinks will solve the safety problems caused by earlier synthetic blood.

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Allan Doctor, MD

School of Medicine

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July 21, 2025

Sarah Kattakuzhy, MD, of the Institute of Human Virology at the 91大神 School of Medicine, and colleagues compared long-term clinical outcomes when antiviral therapy was administered by a primary care provider, nurse practitioner or specialist physician. In particular, the researchers sought to determine whether rates of functional cure, HCV reinfection, retreatment and mortality varied based on provider type.

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Sarah Kattakuzhy, MD

School of Medicine

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July 21, 2025

Recent events have turned public attention to the previously obscure Militia Act of 1903 and the even more obscure historians and political scientists interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century insurrection law. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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July 21, 2025

Celiac disease is a notoriously elusive condition because its symptoms vary in severity and can look different from one person to the next. Digestive issues are the most common symptom, and include "bloating, stomach pain and diarrhea," says Dr. Runa Watkins, a division chief in the pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition division at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Runa Watkins, MD

School of Medicine

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July 21, 2025

Kathi Hoke, a professor of law at the 91大神 Carey School of Law in Baltimore, sees three possibilities when it comes to situations like Schlegel’s.

She said a school district could terminate the teacher, put them back in the classroom or give them an administrative role where they are not dealing directly with students.

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Kathi Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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July 21, 2025

“There’s a whole different set” of health risk factors for older drinkers, said Paul Sacco, a professor of social work at the 91大神, Baltimore who studies substance use and aging. People might not realise that the drinks they used to tolerate well are now affecting their brains and bodies differently, he said.

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Paul Sacco, MSW

School of Social Work

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July 18, 2025

OSA and other clinical sleep disorders are common among military personnel, driven in part by demanding, nontraditional work schedules that can exacerbate sleep problems, but OSA’s impact in this population has not been well-studied, Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD, of the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD

School of Medicine

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July 18, 2025

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is less common among Black people compared to other races, but differences in prevalence may also lead to issues with diagnosis. Many doctors do not know how to spot psoriasis in darker skin. This can cause missed or delayed diagnoses. To solve this problem, I teamed up with the American College of Rheumatology.

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Ashira D Blazer, MD MSCI

School of Medicine

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July 18, 2025

"Cancer Informatics is an expanding field with the rapid emergence of increasingly high-resolution, high-dimensional, multiomic datasets," said Kathleen Noller, Ph.D., lead author and postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the UMD School of Medicine.

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Kathleen Noller

School of Medicine

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July 16, 2025

Noteworthy awardees included Imane Kendili, a leading psychiatrist and CEO of African Global Health, Morocco; Nicaise Ndembi, Regional Director at the Institute of Human Virology, 91大神 School of Medicine; and Ambassador Ibrahim Zanna. 

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Nicaise Ndembi

School of Medicine

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July 16, 2025

Two dining concepts by a Baltimore restaurant owner are coming to the 91大神 BioPark this summer.

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July 15, 2025

“It’s hard to overstate how devastating not having a secure residence is for a kid,” YouthREACH MD Principal Investigator Jay Unick said. “It’s hard to complete high school when you don’t even have a place where you can sit down.”

YouthREACH MD is a program run by the 91大神 School of Social Work and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community, which collects data statewide about youth homelessness.

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Jay Unick, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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July 15, 2025

“Connecting with customers can be one of the trickier parts of the experience,” said Margaret Todd, managing director and senior research associate at the 91大神, Baltimore – Francis King Carey School of Law who is a partner on the project to assist farmers in receiving authorization status, funded by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program (SARE). 

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Margaret Todd, JD

Carey School of Law

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July 15, 2025

Early childhood vaccines containing aluminum are not linked to a higher risk for developing autoimmune, allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders, according to a nationwide study of Danish children.

The study, which looked at more than 1.2 million children over 24 years, provides additional evidence supporting the safety of aluminum-adsorbed vaccines, said senior author Anders Peter Hviid, MSc, DMSc, of Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.

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James Campbell, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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July 15, 2025

It has been four days since 27 people overdosed in the Penn North neighborhood, and Baltimore police are still trying to piece together what happened.

Police said they don't have any updates to share on the substance behind the mass overdose situation or who is responsible for distributing the drugs. Meanwhile, outreach continues in Penn North, where groups continued to provide resources.

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Kyla Liggett-Creel, PhD, LCSW-C

School of Graduate Studies

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July 15, 2025

“There’s no teeth in laws like this,” said Matt Zernhelt, a Baltimore-based attorney and 91大神 School of Law professor.

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Matt Zernhelt

Carey School of Law

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July 15, 2025

Healthcare professionals may not be doing enough to encourage patients to get the RSV vaccine either, said Justin Ortiz, MD, a physician scientist at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Justin Ortiz, MD

School of Medicine

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July 14, 2025

“I knew she knew what she had, but I was still in disbelief,” Pitrof said. “I had a look at him, and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness gracious, Meg! How did you come upon this thing?’” The painting is “probably” the oldest surviving portrait of the school’s first dean, according to Pitrof.

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Larry Pitrof

School of Medicine

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July 11, 2025

Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, an associate dean at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy and president-elect of the American Pharmacists Association, has been a pharmacist since 1979 and has worked in ambulatory care, community pharmacies and telepharmacy settings. 

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Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, MS, FAPhA, FNAP

School of Pharmacy

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July 11, 2025

“The data clearly shows that some things that kids are doing on these devices are harmful to them,” said Sharon Hoover, a licensed clinical psychologist and professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and formerly a co-director of the National Center for School Mental Health.

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Sharon Hoover, PhD

School of Medicine

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July 11, 2025

Teams at the 91大神 School of Medicine are studying the effects of THC and CBD — the two active ingredients in cannabis.

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July 9, 2025

Dr. Megan Cobb, an emergency medicine pediatrician at the 91大神 Children's Hospital and assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, emphasized the importance of awareness and vigilance to prevent such incidents. 

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Megan Cobb, MD

School of Medicine

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July 8, 2025

Dr. Esther Liu, the chair of pediatrics at the 91大神 Baltimore Washington Medical Center, said parents of children who are fully vaccinated don't need to worry.

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Esther K. Liu, MD

School of Medicine

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July 8, 2025

The idea of incorporating this type of alert into the EMR system is feasible, according to Brian Barr, MD, cardiologist at the 91大神 Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Brian Barr, MD

School of Medicine

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July 8, 2025

Mark Graber, a regents professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, said of the Supreme Court: “At some point, they’ll chime in.

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Mark A. Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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July 6, 2025

“Doctors asking patients to lower their cortisol? We almost actually never do that,” said Dr. Jessica R. Lee, assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine. “It’s more about managing stress and other things that we think can contribute to the cortisol changes.”

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Jessica R. Lee, MD

School of Medicine

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July 3, 2025

Guha Krishnamurthi, a professor at the 91大神 School of Law, said in an email, “I certainly think it makes sense and is within the court’s power and discretion to require people who come to the courthouse to state their business.” 

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Guha Krishnamurthi

Carey School of Law

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July 3, 2025

Designed as a hub for integrated rural health services, the regional medical center will serve as an anchor for a sustainable model of care while also serving as an economic engine for the Mid-Shore. UM SRH and UMMS are partnering with the 91大神 School of Medicine, as well as with other 91大神, Baltimore clinical professional schools.

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July 3, 2025

“There’s a whole different set” of health risk factors for older drinkers, said Paul Sacco, a professor of social work at the 91大神, Baltimore who studies substance use and aging. People might not realize that the drinks they used to tolerate well are now affecting their brains and bodies differently, he said.

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Paul Sacco, PhD

School of Social Work

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July 3, 2025

“Historically, prurigo nodularis (PN) has been one of the most underrecognized and undertreated diseases in dermatology,” Shawn G. Kwatra, MD, the Joseph W. Burnett endowed professor and chair of dermatology at the 91大神 School of Medicine and lead investigator of this study, told Healio. “Yet, in a devastating way, it is one of the most profoundly life-altering diseases for patients.”

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Shawn G. Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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July 2, 2025

Sparklers are especially dangerous for kids, says Ronald San Juan, MD, director of the Mercy Pediatrics Hospitalist Group and clinical associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine. 

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Ronald San Juan

School of Medicine

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July 2, 2025

The recent changes in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) have raised significant concerns among health care professionals about the future of vaccine recommendations and public health strategies. 

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Deanna Tran, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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July 2, 2025

Houses of worship need social enterprise now more than ever.

Churches, synagogues and other houses of worship are facing a dire situation. Up to 100,000 U.S. houses of worship may close over the next decade.  The percentage of Americans belonging to a faith institution has plummeted from 70% to 47% over one generation with no sign of abating.

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Howard Kucher, DPA, MBA

School of Graduate Studies

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July 1, 2025

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender, in partnership with the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, has launched a second Innocence Project Clinic.

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Erica Suter, JD

Carey School of Law

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June 30, 2025

Professor Kathi Hoke with the 91大神’s Francis King Carey School of Law said the June 1 deadline gives state leaders a more secure picture of the money at play.

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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June 30, 2025

“I worked with a young physician who lost her life to cancer. It’s something unique about us, that even when we’re married, or educated, still the outcomes look the same,” said Dr. Shana Ntiri, associate professor for Family and Community Medicine at the 91大神, Baltimore.

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Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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June 30, 2025

More than 3,800 people filed lawsuits under Maryland’s Child Victims Act in the two months before new limits on monetary damages took effect in June, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis of court records.

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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June 29, 2025

That overload of drugs, known as polypharmacy, can be dangerous at any age but it’s particularly hazardous for elderly people, who often have multiple health conditions and whose bodies may not handle meds the same way they did when they were younger, said Nicole Brandt.

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Nicole Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCPP, CGP, FASCP

School of Pharmacy

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June 29, 2025

Just because one person doesn’t see value in who we are, that value is still there, and others may very well feel that having us around is a privilege and an enriching experience for them.

This is a reminder that our individual worth survives beyond the end of any relationship.

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Christopher W.T. Miller, MD

School of Medicine

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June 27, 2025

While the decision is a clear win for the Trump administration, “it could come back to haunt the conservatives,” said Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the 91大神. “A future Democratic president will have more leeway to do things that are legally questionable,” he said.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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June 27, 2025

"Any time there are layoffs, it's very sad," said Daniel Mullins, executive director of the PATIENTS Program at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy. "Five of our staff will no longer have jobs because of the loss in funding."

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C. Daniel Mullins, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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June 27, 2025

The exhibition was the culmination of a community-engaged research study conducted by the 91大神 School of Social Work and the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law’s Erin Levitas Initiative for Sexual Violence Prevention,

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Theda Rose, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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June 26, 2025

Professor Mark Graber from the 91大神 Law School says it was a novel order, in response to a novel circumstance: "The Trump administration was attempting to seize people and get them out of jurisdictions and out of the United States before there could be any judicial hearing on whether in fact they were subject to deportation."

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Mark Graber, JD, PhD

Carey School of Law

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June 26, 2025

“I think having a better method is certainly good,” said Jarrell, UMB’s president. “We have to be dynamic in this situation.”

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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June 24, 2025

Brooke Bourne, a Western High School senior, watched two men argue on a bus and then one stab the other. She broke down into tears when she got home. She sometimes has flashbacks about that day, she said, but tries to tamp down the image so it won’t control her thoughts.

That psychological trauma can have long-term consequences, said Nadine Finigan-Carr, executive director of the 91大神 Baltimore Center for Violence Prevention.

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Nadine Finnigan-Carr, PhD, MS

School of Social Work

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June 24, 2025

Simeon Taylor, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and director of the Institutional Research Training Program in Diabetes & Obesity at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore, told Medscape Medical News that the efficacy data were “amazing."

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Simeon Taylor, MD, PhD

School of Graduate Studies, School of Medicine

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June 24, 2025

"We've done a good bit of work, but this reminds us that we still have work to do," executive director of the 91大神 Baltimore's Center for Violence Prevention Nadine Finigan-Carr said.

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Nadine Finigan-Carr, PhD, MS

School of Social Work

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June 23, 2025

In May, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed the Chesapeake Bay Legacy Act (HB 506), a new law that aims to address Chesapeake Bay health through initiatives that enhance restoration activities and engage Maryland farm communities.
The Act makes several significant changes across agricultural sectors in Maryland with a stated purpose to achieve WIP goals, state Climate Pollution Reduction Plan goals, and align other environmental goals while enhancing farm profitability. 

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Margaret Todd, JD

Carey School of Law

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June 23, 2025

Deanna Tran, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, associate professor of the department of practice, sciences, and health outcomes research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, discusses the potential implications of recent changes in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and its impact on vaccine recommendations and health care practices. 

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Deanna Tran, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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June 23, 2025

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, highlights the critical role pharmacists play in navigating vaccine recommendations and supporting patient understanding.

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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June 23, 2025

Daniel Mullins, at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, had a grant canceled for a “Health Equity Research Hub,” which examined how to encourage greater participation in health-related research. Mullins said the loss of the grant affected five positions, and the individuals will be removed from the university due to a lack of funding. He added that the termination stated that the grant was DEI-related, which he disputes.

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Daniel Mullins, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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June 23, 2025

When a patient dies, it can be disorienting for medical trainees, Raya Kheirbek, MD, MPH, said in an email. A patient death can feel like a failure even when it isn’t, said Kheirbek, chief of the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore. A trainee can feel fear, helplessness, and even shame.

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Raya Kheirbek, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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June 20, 2025

In general, it’s rare for people younger than 60 to be diagnosed with cancer; the average age of diagnosis is 67. The average age for someone diagnosed with breast cancer is 63. For prostate cancer, it’s 68. For lung cancer, it’s 71. But there’s one type of cancer that’s increasingly being diagnosed in people 45 and younger.

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Kerri E. Lopez, MD

School of Medicine

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June 16, 2025

“In most cases, students who would normally not have to borrow money, would have to borrow money in order to cover their tuition,” said Patricia Scott, executive director of financial aid for the 91大神, Baltimore.

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Patricia Scott

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June 15, 2025

"The 91大神 pharmacy school created the cannabis master’s program and I think that’s been a huge piece. It draws people internationally and they give such a depth of knowledge on this category. I think it’s really instrumental and having a major institution like that really helps to validate the industry.”

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June 12, 2025

In an effort to increase physician density in these rural areas, the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) last year launched its Rural-MD Scholars program, to train and place up to 10 students a year in Eastern Shore healthcare practices.

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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June 11, 2025

Dr. Wilbur Chen, a professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, served until last June on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which guides federal decisions on the rollout of vaccinations and the people who should receive them.

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Wilbur Chen, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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June 11, 2025

“People need to be aware of what aggravates their asthma and listen to their body,” says Kathryn Robinett, M.D., a pulmonologist at the 91大神 Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Kathryn Robinett, MD

School of Medicine

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June 10, 2025

Q: I never know which type of over-the-counter pain medication to use for different types of pain, like headaches, sprained ankles or sore muscles. Which works best for these unique situations?

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Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS

School of Pharmacy

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June 10, 2025

June is men's health month which means it's the perfect time to raise awareness for men's health issues. Men need to schedule health screenings and check in with your primary care physicians regularly and this morning. Dr. Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, director of urologic, oncology and robotic surgery at 91大神 School of Medicine joined us on Fox 45 Morning News to discuss why these screenings are so important.

 

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Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, MD

School of Medicine

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June 9, 2025

From the middle of 2013 to the end of last year, more than 1,300 reports of alleged child sex trafficking were screened by Maryland Child Protective Services. Last week hundreds of people working to stop child trafficking gathered in Towson to raise awareness and focus on partnerships to protect vulnerable kids.

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Nadine Finigan-Carr, PhD, MS

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June 9, 2025

The public’s impression is that lots of kids from troubled homes basically grow up in foster care, says Dr. Richard Barth, professor, 91大神 School of Social Work. “But they really don’t. They come in, they go home, they go to live with relatives, some get adopted, some run away, some go into guardianships.’’

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Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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June 6, 2025

A self-described introvert with a career at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Molly has been left to pick up the pieces. So when the messages from real estate agents and investors started trickling in, a renewed sense of anger came with them.

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Molly Jo Goodfellow, PhD

School of Medicine

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June 6, 2025

The surgeon at the center of this effort for more than 25 years, Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, turns 74 on Saturday — and is still driven to pull 100-hour weeks caring for the most dire patients.

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Thomas M. Scalea, MD

School of Medicine

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June 5, 2025

The latest generation of generative artificial intelligence can ace most law school final exams, a new study has found. OpenAI’s newest model, called o3, earned grades ranging from A+ to B on eight spring finals given by faculty at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, researchers found in a new paper published on SSRN

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Jeff Sovern, JD

Carey School of Law

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June 4, 2025

Anna can't exactly pinpoint when her relationship with her sister-in-law started to sour. Rather, it was a slow unraveling.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW, LCSW-C

School of Social Work

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June 3, 2025

During a single week in April 2023, the area around Florida’s Washington Oaks Gardens State Park was abuzz. A bobcat passed by, perhaps stalking the eastern gray squirrels. An eastern diamondback rattlesnake slithered through the undergrowth. The spaces among the grand oaks hummed with wildlife—a big brown bat, mosquitoes, and an osprey—and people with African, European, and Asian ancestors.

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Natalie Ram, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 30, 2025

“The order is now more clearly focused on Maryland,” Mark Graber, a professor at the 91大神 School of Law, wrote in an email. “This means the order still stands if the Supreme Court decides that federal district courts cannot issue national injunctions. The judge is covering his bases.”

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Mark Graber, JD, PhD

Carey School of Law

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May 30, 2025

Two surgeons, Dr. Mohamed A.M. Labib, M.D., CM, neurosurgeon and assistant professor of neurosurgery at the 91大神 Medical Center (UMMC) and Andrea M. Hebert, M.D., MPH, head and neck surgeon and an associate professor of otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery at 91大神 School of Medicine removed a spine tumor through a patient’s eye socket in what appears to be the first time this particular approach was used to access the cervical spine.  

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Mohamed A.M. Labib, MD,CM

School of Medicine

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May 30, 2025

Geoffrey L. Greif and Kathleen Holtz Deal, researchers at the 91大神 School of Social Work, have found that couples who maintain friendships with other couples are more attracted to each other and have stronger relationships.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD

School of Social Work

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May 30, 2025

“Men do not feel comfortable pursuing other men for friendships. … They don’t like for other men to come across as too needy,” he continued. “Whether or not it will have universal appeal to all men, I doubt it. But if you move the needle 5 or 10% for men who see the movie and say, ‘You know what, this helps me understand my friendships a little better.’ … I think that can have a benefit.”

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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May 29, 2025

I have been fortunate to work with several small assisted living facilities that have experienced less direct care staff attrition compared with many post-acute and long-term care communities. Recently, one of the assisted living communities hired a new facility director, registered nurse, and several nursing assistants to replace staff who had retired or moved on to other opportunities.

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Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP

School of Nursing

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May 28, 2025

The development project at the North Bethesda Metro station will be anchored by the 91大神’s new Institute for Health Computing—an innovative partnership between the 91大神, College Park, 91大神 Baltimore, and the 91大神 Medical System.

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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May 27, 2025

When you have various aches and pains, it can be challenging to decide which over-the-counter pain reliever is best matched for your affliction — Advil, Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin?

The choice, experts say, really comes down to just two classes of medication: acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (or NSAIDs).

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Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS

School of Pharmacy

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May 27, 2025

Your eyes and brain aren’t just close together—they’re connected.

Simply put, your retina and optic nerve are extensions of your central nervous system, says Dr. Meenal Agarwal, an Ontario-based optometrist and host of the Uncover Your Eyes podcast. “Anything that’s happening in the eye or the brain—and vice versa—affects each other,” she explains. “I like to treat it as one entity.”

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Eric L. Singman, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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May 27, 2025

“When you look at medicine computation is finally making its way into medicine,” says Jarrell, “It used to be it was all here in a doctor’s head. Now it’s in computers. It’ll take the whole AI revolution, self-driving cars to the area of, I’m not going to say self-driving health, but it will guide our health care decisions immensely.”

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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May 27, 2025

“Older Black men have been disproportionately affected by overdose deaths in Baltimore City since around 2015,” said Jay Unick, a professor at the 91大神. “Their rising death rates went largely unnoticed for too long.”

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Jay Unick, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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May 27, 2025

For millions of us, coffee plays a vital role in the morning routine. Not only does its allure coax us out of bed, it gets us up and moving—probably to the bathroom.

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Rena Malik, MD

School of Medicine

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May 27, 2025

“We plan to fill this building at least as much as we can with a lot of people who are looking at how you use data and artificial intelligence and computing to improve health care,” Jarrell said.

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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May 24, 2025

If you buy goods at a store, you get a receipt telling you the amount of sales tax you pay. Work at a job, and your pay stub reports how much was deducted for payroll taxes. The amount you pay in income taxes is likewise no secret from you.

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Jeff Sovern, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 22, 2025

However, the article’s authors, Sarah Murthi, MD and Amitabh Varshney clearly establish that the technology is still in relatively early stages. Considering Augmented Reality is in such early phases, there are a number of challenges that will need to be overcome to expand the technology’s use across the medical community.

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Sarah Murthi, MD

School of Medicine

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May 22, 2025

Not only did Lyke help develop the first Ebola vaccine and the first Zika virus vaccine, she worked on the phase one studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. While that is one of the more impressive parts of her background, Lyke’s passion for taking care of the world encompasses everything she does.

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Kirsten Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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May 21, 2025

First author Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD, ABPP, CBSM, DBSM, says the findings make sense. “A number of studies have demonstrated that even partial [C]PAP adherence can lead to improved health outcomes,” he says. “It stands to reason that the same would also be true for economic costs.”

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Emerson Wickwire, PhD

School of Medicine

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May 21, 2025

"We want to make maker space tools, resources and education accessible to all Baltimore City residents," said Dionne McConkey, UMB Office of Community and Civic Engagement Program Specialist.

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Dionne McConkey, LMSW

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May 20, 2025

“Unfortunately, prostate cancer is one of these cancers that until its late stages is without symptoms, and that actually highlights the importance of screening,” said Dr. Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, director of Urologic Oncology and Robotic Surgery at the 91大神 Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center at the 91大神 Medical Center

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Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, MD

School of Medicine

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May 20, 2025

A growing number of people, particularly women under 65, are being diagnosed with lung cancer despite never smoking, a Maryland doctor is cautioning.

"Over the last 10 years or so, we've noticed an increasing trend of patients with no or minimal smoking history being diagnosed," Dr. Samuel Rosner, a thoracic oncologist at the 91大神 Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, said.

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Samuel Rosner, MD

School of Medicine

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May 20, 2025

“Oral health care providers should be knowledgeable about the salient features of AGS and perform a thorough review of an affected patient’s diagnosis, triggering events, associated adverse incidents, and therapeutic measures used,” wrote the authors, led by Dr. John Brooks, a clinical professor in the department of oncology and diagnostic sciences at the 91大神 School of Dentistry in Baltimore.

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John Brooks, DDS

School of Dentistry

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May 20, 2025

The rule of law provides the foundation for structuring elite domination and a forge for fashioning the weapons of the weak.  The substance of law inevitably reflects the interests and values of the lawmaking, law enforcing, and law interpreting class.

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Mark Graber, JD, PhD, MA

Carey School of Law

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May 19, 2025

After years of debate, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has officially recognized type 5 diabetes as a distinct diagnosis. This new classification highlights a form of the condition linked to childhood malnutrition, which primarily affects millions of teens and young adults, particularly in regions like Asia and Africa.

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Rozalina McCoy, MD

School of Medicine

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May 16, 2025

“Hip fractures can affect many aspects of function in older people and require multiple strategies to restore function,” said study co-author and one of the study principal investigators, , Professor of Epidemiology in the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM)

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Jay Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg

School of Medicine

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May 16, 2025

“The social safety net, at a federal level, is a combination of several programs and policies that provide direct cash benefits, as well as resources,” explains Lauren A. Schuyler, PhD, assistant research director of family welfare research at the 91大神 School of Social Work.

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Lauren A. Schuyler, PhD

School of Social Work

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May 16, 2025

Brian M. Shear, M.D., from the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues assessed whether preinjury mobility data, combined with demographic and injury data, reliably predicted recovery six or more months after the surgical treatment of a lower-extremity fracture. 

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Brian M. Shear, MD

School of Medicine

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May 15, 2025

Baltimore-based 91大神 School of Medicine has Tarek Hanna, MD, as chief of the diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine clinical service. 

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Tarek Hanna, MD

School of Medicine

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May 15, 2025

91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law Professor Mark Graber speaks with WBAL’s Robert Lang

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Mark A. Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 14, 2025


Kathy Hoke leads the legal resource center for public health policy at the university of maryland school of law. these products stay on here not for medical use. do not inhale. how clear does that keep these companies in terms of their liability?

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 14, 2025

That information request is more concerning than the policy rescission, said Liza Vertinsky, law professor at the 91大神, as it makes removing regulations “the goal rather than actually investigating how we might improve public health outcomes.”

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Liza Vertinsky, PhD, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 14, 2025

Co-CEO Ara Katz, who worked with Jacques Ravel, PhD, acting director at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the 91大神, on Seed’s formulation, presented their findings at last year’s Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) conference.

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Jacques Ravel, PhD

School of Medicine

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May 14, 2025

The 91大神, Baltimore (UMB) will award an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree to Ronald Chisom, co-founder of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), during the 91大神 School of Social Work (UMSSW) Convocation on May 19 at The Lyric.

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Wendy Shaia, EdD, MSW

School of Social Work

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May 14, 2025

"There is a critical window for getting fluoride to protect teeth as they’re developing,” says Dr. Erica Caffrey, clinical assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Dentistry.

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Erica Caffrey, DDS

School of Dentistry

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May 14, 2025

This will enable 3Daughters to build and become part of a women’s health hub with access to the 91大神, Baltimore (UMB), Johns Hopkins, and the entire Baltimore-Washington regional bio science corridor.

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May 13, 2025

Led by Professor Sang Hoon Kang in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UNIST, the team has created a novel method to objectively measure spasticity by applying subtle forces to a patient's arm and quantifying the resulting movement responses. Designed for rapid, quantitative assessment even by non-experts, this technology could significantly improve tailored rehabilitation strategies and support the establishment of standardized assessment criteria.

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Sang Hoon Kang, PhD

School of Medicine

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May 13, 2025

You may have heard of nitrous oxide during a trip to the dentist’s office. It’s commonly known as “laughing gas” and is used to calm patients during procedures. Nitrous is also legally sold as a culinary product to give whipped cream its fluffy texture. But it’s seeing a recent resurgence for another purpose: illicit recreational drug use by people who inhale it.

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 13, 2025

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission ("Commission") announced awarding over $18 million in grants aimed at accelerating cutting-edge stem cell and regenerative medicine research across Maryland.

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Zubair M. Ahmed, PhD

School of Medicine

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May 13, 2025

Since May is National Osteoporosis Awareness Month, Endocrine News is highlighting three articles published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) in January focusing on various aspects of osteoporosis research help further this goal. They also make important strides in answering the many clinical questions surrounding this prevalent disease, including some we didn’t know needed asking.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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May 13, 2025

After years of debate, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has formally recognized type 5 diabetes as an official diagnosis.

Unlike other forms of the condition, type 5 diabetes is linked to childhood malnutrition and affects millions of teens and young adults, mostly in Asia and Africa.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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May 9, 2025

"You can hear a lot of sounds from the construction going on, a lot of plumbing work, a lot of installations going on," said Dr. Taofeek Owonikoko, Executive Director of the 91大神 Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Owonikoko pointed behind him to what will soon become the new Stoler Center for Advanced Medicine expected to open by 2026.

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Taofeek Kunle Owonikoko, MBChB, DrMed, MS

School of Medicine

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May 9, 2025

A young Maryland woman is "relieved and recovering" after doctors performed to remove her potentially deadly cancerous tumors.

A surgical team at the 91大神 Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket.

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Mohamed A.M. Labib, MD,CM

School of Medicine

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May 7, 2025

Most of us know that habits like poor diet and lack of exercise are bad for our hearts, but it turns out they’re bad for our brains, too. Conversely, heart-healthy lifestyles can also ward off brain aging and dementia, according to researchers with the 91大神 School of Public Health and the School of Medicine at the 91大神, Baltimore (UMB).

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Shuo Chen, PhD

School of Medicine

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May 6, 2025

Three nationally prominent immigration authorities participating in a webcast discussion of “Immigration and Human Flourishing at the Southern Border” dug deep on a topic the event moderator called “the most politically charged issue in our country today.”

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Maureen Sweeney, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 6, 2025

I'm delighted to welcome back to Washington Post Live, Dr. Shana Ntiri. She's an assistant professor in the Department for Family and Community Medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine. She's also medical director of Baltimore City's Cancer Program.

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Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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May 6, 2025

“The car companies have been crawling all over them for weeks and months,” said Rena Steinzor, an emeritus professor of administrative law at the 91大神.

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Rena Steinzor, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 5, 2025

An excerpt from Dr. Bartley Griffith's book in progress: My cell rang. It was Susan Joseph, M.D., the cardiologist who headed our heart transplant program at 91大神 Medical Center, calling.

“I’m in trouble,” she said. “My patient is in shock and won’t make it through the night. I’ve done all I can do. His kidneys are failing, medicines are maxed, he is in and out of arrest. He is only 57, and he is going to die.”

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Bartley P. Griffith, MD

School of Medicine

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May 5, 2025

Establishing a sleep plan during the third trimester of pregnancy ensures that postpartum patients get sufficient blocks of sleep to support the well-being of the entire family. Here to share her insights on what this sleep plan can look like for new parents is Dr. Nicole Leistikow, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the 91大神. 

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Nicole Leistikow, MD

School of Medicine

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May 5, 2025

Just before the medical staff wheeled Karla Flores into the operating room so that surgeons could work inside her head for the third time in less than a month, the 19-year-old budding manicurist said goodbye to her mom and dad. She didn’t know if she would see them again.

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Mohamed A.M. Labib, MD,CM

School of Medicine

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May 1, 2025

Chaz Arnett, a legal scholar at the 91大神, Baltimore, who studies race and technology, is especially critical of the researchers’ use of LLMs to impersonate members of groups such as Black people or sexual assault survivors.

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Chaz Arnett, JD

Carey School of Law

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May 1, 2025

“This is an exciting set of findings that have identified hundreds of potential new drug targets and opportunities for repurposing drugs already approved and on the market for other conditions,” said study co-author Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MBA, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MBA

School of Medicine

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May 1, 2025

Scientists from the 91大神 School of Medicine have made an important discovery about how children’s brains develop. They found that inflammation in the body during childhood could change how certain brain cells grow.

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Seth Ament, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 29, 2025

That’s why we fought so hard to pass the Time to Care Act. In 2022, the Maryland General Assembly enacted it, creating a statewide Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program. The author Lisa Klingenmaier is the deputy director of policy at Maryland Family Network and campaign manager of the Time to Care Coalition, and adjunct faculty at the 91大神 School of Social Work.

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Lisa Klingenmaier, MSW '12, MPH '12

School of Social Work

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April 29, 2025

Now a professor at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy and an associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Shapiro studies mitogen-activated protein kinases, or MAP kinases. These enzymes are involved in signaling cascades and regulate a range of functions including cellular mitosis, motility and survival.

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Paul Shapiro, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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April 29, 2025

As siblings progress through life, these once-obligatory relationships can transition from roommate to friend or even best friend. In interviews for their 2015 book , authors Geoffrey L. Greif and Michael E. Woolley found 64 percent of respondents said they were good friends with a sibling; 45 percent considered a sibling one of their best friends.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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April 27, 2025

“I’m not sure that there’s any value in allowing people who are sick, who are elderly and who are unable to pose any threat to public safety to die in prison,” added Lila Meadows, who’s also director of the Decarceration Initiative Clinic at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Lila Meadows

Carey School of Law

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April 26, 2025

The Erin Talk curriculum is delivered using restorative dialogue circles facilitated by trained law and social work students like Ebony Battle who is a graduate-level social work student at the 91大神 School of Social Work and a community organizer from Baltimore

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April 25, 2025

“We continue the longtime trend of our results tracking above the state averages by significant percentages, but I think it also shows we have a lot of work to do,” Laurent said in a recent interview with The Daily Record. “I want and expect that a far greater percentage of not just our first-time takers, but our repeat takers, will get up over that last, final hurdle to practice.” 

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Renée Hutchins Laurent, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 25, 2025

Research shows similar snap decisions by victims in response to trauma can taint how jurors, judges and prosecutors see defendants, said Leigh Goodmark, a 91大神 law professor who studies the criminalization of domestic violence.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 24, 2025

The Maryland Office of the Public Defender and 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law have launched a new exoneration clinic, a move that means both of the state’s law schools now offer innocence projects.

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Erica Suter

Carey School of Law

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April 23, 2025

While Harvard could have any number of attorneys represent it in court, Hur’s “unusual background” benefits the university from a public relations standpoint, said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law

 

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Michael Greenberger, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 23, 2025

Mark Graber, a regents professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey Law School in Baltimore, said in an interview Monday that a Supreme Court decision in favor of the petitioners, or parents, would create “an administrative nightmare.” “There are a lot of religions out there. Schools have to figure out what violates religion, what parents they have to contact,” he said.

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Mark A. Graber

Carey School of Law

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April 22, 2025

“At UMB, we remain committed to UMB’s mission to improve the human condition and serve the public good of Maryland and society at-large,” Likowski said. “In connection with that mission, we aim to foster an environment in which teams are able [to] successfully tackle the challenges of our time, including access to health and human services and access to justice.” 

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Alex Likowski

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April 22, 2025

"Maryland does not have a universal; you can go through the entire curriculum like a cafeteria and say I want this for my child but not this," said Mark A. Graber, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law. 

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Mark A. Graber

Carey School of Law

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April 21, 2025

The story of how Erin McKean, MD, ended up in, as she puts it, the “weird small niche field” of minimally invasive, ventral skull base surgeries — operating on sinonasal cancers and pituitary tumors for instance — might never have happened had she not met her mentor.

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Omer Awan, MD

School of Medicine

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April 21, 2025

As colleges and universities formulate, and reformulate, their policies related to the use of artificial intelligence, the technology and its applications are evolving at breakneck speed.

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Cheryl Fisher, EdD, MSN, RN

School of Nursing

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April 21, 2025

“In 2025, smartphones are ubiquitous and continuously capture invaluable mobility data,” Nathan N. O’Hara, PhD, MHA, associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told Healio. “These metrics distinguished between patients with and without nonunions, demonstrating their potential usefulness as objective, real-world functional outcome measures.”

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Nathan N. O’Hara, PhD, MHA

School of Medicine

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April 21, 2025

The United States has been the world leader in science for decades, but the Trump administration has made plans to cancel or freeze federal grants that fund scientific institutions and universities and shrink or abolish federal scientific agencies. Such actions would end the country’s decades of preeminence in science, researchers and experts warn.

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Kirsten Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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April 21, 2025

“We’ve never been here before,” said Mark Graber, a constitutional law professor at the 91大神.

“We’re sending people to something that resembles a concentration camp in El Salvador,” he said, noting that as someone who lost family in the Holocaust, he doesn’t use that term lightly. “We send people there without being given a chance to say, ‘You’ve got the wrong person.'”

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 17, 2025

Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) and former Senator Jill P. Carter recently reflected on the 10 years that have passed since the death of Freddie Gray. In two separate events, the leaders spoke on the “Baltimore Uprising” that followed Gray’s funeral and how the city has changed.

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Michael Pinard, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 17, 2025

Dr. Bartley Griffith, who was the surgeon involved here, told us how nervous he was about broaching it and then how this patient responded with humor. He said, you know, what do you think I’m gonna oink? That first operation, that first transplant, lasted only two months.

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Bartley P. Griffith, MD

School of Medicine

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April 17, 2025

The 91大神 Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC) offers a head and neck multidisciplinary clinic where ear, nose and throat surgeons like Dr. Rodney Taylor, and other experts from oncology, pathology and neuroradiology take a patient-centered approach.

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Rodney J. Taylor, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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April 15, 2025

The rattling or whistling noises of regular snorers are famously hard on those who share their beds. Middle-aged men and people who are overweight come frequently to mind as perpetrators because they are the most common sufferers of sleep apnea, often caused by a temporarily collapsing airway that makes the person snore heavily. But recent studies in children and pregnant women have revealed that even mild snoring can negatively affect health, behavior and quality of life.

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Amal Isaiah, MMBS, DPhil

School of Medicine

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April 15, 2025

Despite widespread, lingering shortages, traditional attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) meds – such as methylphenidate (MP) – persist as a reliable front-line treatment. Even so, a frustrating number of patients – nearly a third – fail to respond to the drug. New research might explain why. 

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Mark Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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April 15, 2025

Shawn Kwatra, M.D., professor and chair of dermatology at the 91大神 School of Medicine, recently spoke with Managed Healthcare Executive about new discoveries in chronic itch, how treatment options are improving, and the challenges patients face in getting access to the right therapies.

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Shawn Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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April 14, 2025

Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS was interviewed for this article about GLP-1s and diabetes.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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April 13, 2025

Ten years after the police-involved death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray on April 11, 2015, the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law and Campaign for Justice, Safety and Jobs held an event to reflect on the events of the “Baltimore Uprising” and where the city is now.

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Michael Pinard, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 11, 2025

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the 91大神 Frances King Carey School of Law hosted panels reflecting on events surrounding Freddie Gray's death.

The panels, held Friday, helped communities remember Gray, who was arrested on April 12, 2015, and died after suffering injuries in police custody a week later

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April 11, 2025

It's almost been ten years since Freddie Gray died, and an event in downtown Baltimore Friday aimed to not only remember him but also remember what needs to be done when it comes to ensuring fair policing.

Still Rising 10 Years After Freddie Gray's Death was put on by the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, which is apart of the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Monique Dixon, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 10, 2025

There must be a better way. U.S. News has dominated law school rankings for several decades, and its decisions about what to rank and how to weigh those factors have had a significant impact on legal education, and, in my view, not in a good way. 

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Donald Tobin, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 10, 2025

While many medical professionals praise the benefits of cannabis use, there are certainly medical professionals who do not support its use. Professor of psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine’s Psychiatric Research Center in Baltimore, David Gorelick, MD, asserts that there is a concerning public misconception that cannabis and cannabinoid products are harmless.

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David Gorelick, MD, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 10, 2025

Scientists at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, in collaboration with the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, have developed a new nanoparticle therapy that tackles obesity through two complementary mechanisms: converting energy-storing white fat into calorie-burning beige fat while simultaneously reducing obesity-related inflammation.

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Ryan M. Pearson, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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April 9, 2025

On 12 March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving home with his young son in Maryland when he was stopped by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Agents took Mr Garcia into custody, then shuttled him to detention facilities in Louisiana and Texas.

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Maureen Sweeney, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 8, 2025

Rise Early Learning and Family Support Center is another nonprofit organization that provides free early childhood education, respite care, resources and a sense of community.

"We provide breakfast, lunch and snack for all families," said Lezley Lewis-Anthony, with Rise Early.

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Lezley Lewis-Anthony, M.Ed.

School of Social Work

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April 8, 2025

“I think attendings really like it when you’re enthusiastic and ready to be there, and especially keeping in mind that you don’t have to be right. But you do have to have reasoning for why you’re doing something,” said Lindsay Kohan, a fourth-year medical student at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore.

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April 8, 2025

“Sex is a catch-all phrase that actually refers to a constellation of features, not just one as they’ve defined it here,” , a neuroscientist and pharmacology professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told us. 

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Margaret "Peg" M. McCarthy

School of Medicine

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April 7, 2025

The White Lotus creators started planting seeds about Thailand’s deadly pong pong tree in the very first episode.

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Joshua King, MD

School of Medicine

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April 7, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily paused a federal judge’s order that gave the Trump administration until the end of Monday to retrieve a Maryland man the government erroneously deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.

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Guha Krishnamurthi, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 7, 2025

For decades, the placebo effect — the phenomenon where a patient’s condition improves after receiving an inert treatment, often a sugar pill, because they believe it to be real medication — has fascinated and sometimes confounded the medical community. But what happens when you remove the deception and tell patients outright that they are receiving a placebo?

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

School of Nursing

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April 6, 2025

91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law Dean Renée Hutchins Laurent was interviewed on "In the Courts with Katie Barlow."

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Renée Hutchins Laurent, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 6, 2025

Mary Favors is still plagued by nightmares from the days her husband beat her, choked her and verbally and sexually abused her. Now, she is in prison for killing him.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 4, 2025

Jason J. Rose, MD, MBA is quoted in this New York Times article.

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Jason J. Rose, MD, MBA

School of Medicine

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April 4, 2025

MASH, an advanced form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, refers to the inflammation of the liver caused by fat buildup. Over time, this inflammation can lead to scarring, liver failure, or even cancer. 

MASH, which stands for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, often develops in people with underlying metabolic conditions such as obesity, high cholesterol, or type 2 diabetes. 

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Kirti Shetty, MBBS

School of Medicine

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April 4, 2025

For a long time, the Baltimore Police Department did not respect the public’s First Amendment rights.

People were often charged with loitering or disorderly conduct if they criticized officers, participated in protests or recorded police activities...

It got worse before it got better.

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Monique Dixon, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 4, 2025

Research published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs warns many observational studies have previously suggested that moderate drinkers live longer and face fewer health issues than non-drinkers.

But newer research proposes that these reports are misleading.

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Paul Sacco, PhD

School of Social Work

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April 4, 2025

They’ve investigated blood tests to find cancer early and treat it with the best drugs. They’ve looked at new obesity drugs to curb cocaine addiction. They’ve developed medications aimed at addressing chronic pain and prevent norovirus symptoms that have plagued some cruise ships.

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April 4, 2025

For people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) inadequately controlled on submaximal dulaglutide (Trulicity) doses, switching to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) produces significantly greater A1c and weight lowering than does escalating dulaglutide treatment.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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April 3, 2025

In a significant breakthrough within ovarian cancer research, a team at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) has discovered a pivotal gene, ZNFX1, which acts as a potent “master regulator.” This discovery is anticipated to revolutionize treatment methodologies in forthcoming clinical trials for patients afflicted with therapy-resistant ovarian cancer.

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Feyruz V. Rassool, PhD

School of Medicine

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April 3, 2025

When carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin, it “kicks the oxygen off” the protein, and prevents tissues and organs from getting the oxygen they need to function properly, said Dr. Jason Rose, the chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Jason J. Rose, MD, MBA

School of Medicine

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April 2, 2025

After her husband's death, Favors transported the body and left it elsewhere. Research shows similar snap decisions by victims in response to trauma can taint how jurors, judges and prosecutors see defendants, said Leigh Goodmark, a 91大神 law professor who studies the criminalization of domestic violence.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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April 1, 2025

After taking a quiz at Kingdomality.com, which tells you what type of job you would have if you had lived during the Middle Ages — jobs like dreamer-minstrel, discoverer, and even doctor — Stephen Kavic, MD, the program director of the General Surgery Residency Program at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore, was less than thrilled to get shepherd.

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Stephen Kavic, MD

School of Medicine

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March 31, 2025

Kathleen Hoke, a 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law professor, said in an email that the amendments to the bill shown to her by a reporter attempt to create a system similar to one in New Hampshire. But they raise a number of legal questions, she said. 

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 31, 2025

The deadliest animal in the world is the pesky blood sucking mosquito, killing an estimated 700,000 people a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But a new study published Wednesday suggests that a rare medication has the potential to make human blood deadly to mosquitoes, offering a new way to treat deadly diseases like malaria, West Nile virus, yellow fever and Dengue fever.

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Omer Awan, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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March 31, 2025

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread in poultry flocks unchecked. Scientists say that’s risky because it gives the virus more opportunities to replicate, increasing the chance it could change to spread easily among humans.

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Saskia Popescu, PhD, MA, MPH

School of Medicine

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March 31, 2025

Between 74% and 95% of incarcerated women have survived domestic abuse or sexual violence, according to the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Many were tried without fair opportunities to prove the scope of the abuse and how it led them to act in self-defense, while others were coerced into crimes, according to advocates, who add that certain laws disproportionately criminalize abused women. 

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 31, 2025

This week, the Maryland Senate is scheduled to vote on HB 853, the Maryland Second Look Act. The Second Look Act would enable people who have served at least 20 years in prison to ask the court to reconsider sentences that may have seemed appropriate when first handed down but are no longer necessary to safeguard the public. People like our clients.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 27, 2025

Prof Muhammad Mohiuddin, director of the cardiac xenotransplantation programme at the 91大神, said: “This is a major leap forward for the field. With a liver, you don’t have to keep it for the rest of your life.

“You can use it as a bridge until a human liver is available for transplant or it can be used as a partial support until the liver regenerates. I firmly believe that this can work.”

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Muhammad Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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March 27, 2025

Yolanda Ogbolu, dean of the 91大神 School of Nursing and point person for the collaborative, said the group — which includes faith-based organizations, academia, hospitals and hospital-related entities – is tackling an issue that's been frequently voiced by community members.

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Yolanda Ogbulu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN

School of Nursing

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March 27, 2025

Here in Maryland, we are grateful to state legislators for recognizing the importance of investing in research and the power of collaboration, as exemplified by MPower, a partnership between the 91大神, College Park and the 91大神, Baltimore.

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Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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March 27, 2025

According to Regina Macatangay, MD, a pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the 91大神 Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, child life specialists make all the difference in the world.

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Regina Macatangay, MD

School of Medicine

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March 25, 2025

Kathleen Hoke, a 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law professor, said in an email that the amendments to the bill shown to her by a reporter attempt to create a system similar to one in New Hampshire. But they raise a number of legal questions, she said.

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 24, 2025

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, President Richard M. Nixon said its mission would be to establish and enforce environmental protection standards, research the adverse effects of pollution and provide grants and technical assistance to help control it.

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Jon Mueller

Carey School of Law

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March 24, 2025

“It produces hormones such as the stress hormone cortisol, as well as inflammatory proteins known as cytokines,” explains Pamela Peeke, M.D., assistant professor of family and community medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine and author of The Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction.

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Pamela M. Peeke MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM

School of Medicine

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March 24, 2025

Op-ed co-authored by Morgan Pardue-Kim, MSW '14, a PhD. candidate at the 91大神 School of Social Work, Kerri Evans, PhD, MSW, LCSW, an assistant professor at the 91大神, Baltimore County Department of Social Work, and UMSSW student and research assistant Celene Viveros Garces.

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Kerri Evans, PhD, MSW, LCSW

School of Social Work

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March 21, 2025

For years, Shanda Brown saw dozens of seniors die from drug use at the affordable housing complex where she worked in Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood.

“We definitely felt like we were out there on our own,” Brown said.

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Marik Moen, PhD, MPH, RN

School of Nursing

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March 20, 2025

A clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun enrolling participants at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore.  

Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic disease that can be fatal and causes permanent hearing loss in up to one-third of those who contract it.

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March 18, 2025

Sometimes tragedies can be breakthroughs. Or the beginnings of breakthroughs. That’s what happened a few years ago when a 91大神 Medical Center surgical team, led by Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin and Bartley Griffith, performed a revolutionary new procedure on a 57-year-old who had terminal heart failure. David Bennett, Sr., had been denied a traditional heart transplant due to a variety of health factors. 

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Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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March 18, 2025

"Pharmacists are one of the most accessible health care practitioners, and they are perfectly positioned to help older adults gain the most benefit from Age-Friendly care," said Lamy Center Executive Director Nicole J. Brandt, PharmD, MBA.

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Nicole J. Brandt, PharmD, MBA

School of Pharmacy

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March 17, 2025

Various plants, herbs, and substances are being called “nature’s Ozempic,” usually because of anecdotal evidence or small studies that show weight loss.

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Mihir K. Patel, MD

School of Medicine

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March 17, 2025

President Donald Trump has claimed that a batch of last-minute blanket pardons issued by former President Joe Biden are "null and void."

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 14, 2025

Measles may seem like a disease of the past. Indeed, the highly contagious virus was declared eradicated in the United States in 2000 after a full year had passed without any infections. But times have changed. Texas is now experiencing the largest measles outbreak in nearly three decades, and the virus is spreading across the country.

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Elizabeth Hammershaimb, MD

School of Medicine

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March 13, 2025

As many as half of nursing home residents are cognitively impaired and may be unable to communicate symptoms such as pain or anxiety to the staff and clinicians caring for them. Therefore, information needed for the evaluation of symptoms and subsequent treatment decisions typically does not reliably exist in nursing home electronic health records (EHRs).

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John Cagle, MSW, PhD

School of Social Work

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March 13, 2025

Dr. Luana Colloca, a former fellow at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, now leads non-pharmaceutical pain research at the 91大神 in Baltimore and is a professor at the universities school of nursing. She is a parishioner of St. Leo the Great in Little Italy.

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS

School of Nursing

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March 13, 2025

"The PATIENTS Program really listens to the voices of patients and their health care providers out there in the community, and then we try to serve as a bridge between those communities and researchers, and we try to answer relevant questions to improve health right here in West Baltimore, but increasingly across the nation," Mullins told 11 News.

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C. Daniel Mullins, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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March 12, 2025

Sarah Lustbader on the feminist law professor Leigh Goodmark, who for years was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions but who now holds an opposite view.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 12, 2025

But until now, public calls to increase collaboration between the two agencies had not come with the idea of folding the USPS into the Commerce Department. Such a unilateral move by the president would violate the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, says Rena Steinzor, an administrative law expert who retired last year as a professor at the 91大神's law school.

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Rena Steinzor, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 12, 2025

Although measles was considered "eliminated" from the U.S. 25 years ago, in recent years, epidemiologists could see the writing on the wall. Vaccination rates were starting to dip in the U.S., and cases were beginning to rise globally. An outbreak was likely.

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James Campbell, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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March 12, 2025

INCREASING diversity in research, from basic science to clinical trials, remains essential for advancing equitable healthcare outcomes. This is according to a panel discussion at the Skin of Color Society Scientific Symposium at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Systemic barriers, however, political pressures, and recruitment challenges continue to threaten progress.

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Shawn Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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March 12, 2025

Researchers at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) have significantly advanced the field of global health with their recent findings on a new meningitis vaccine.

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Wilbur Chen, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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March 12, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it seeking to stop climate lawsuits in five Democratic-led states, which are seeking financial damages from oil and gas companies for having obscured the connection between their products and global warming.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 10, 2025

On a 300-acre farm in an undisclosed location in rural Wisconsin, surrounded by fields dotted with big red barns and bordered by wild blue chicory and goldenrod, live some of the most pampered pigs in the world.

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Bartley P. Griffith, MD

School of Medicine

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March 9, 2025

Why can’t anything ever just stay still?

A patient posed this question during a therapy session, reflecting on how, as we age, many things can get thrown into disarray — home life, social relations, job security and health.

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Christopher W.T. Miller, MD

School of Medicine

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March 8, 2025

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since childhood, unable to do much physically and dependent on ibuprofen for relief.

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

School of Nursing

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March 7, 2025

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain.

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Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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March 7, 2025

We are in a clarifying moment about the law. This includes noticing the emergence of what legal scholars like Chaz Arnett call the “datafied state,” where the State expands social control and power and widens surveillance of peoples through datafication processes.

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Chaz Arnett, JD

Carey School of Law

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March 7, 2025

On a Thursday edition of FOX45 Morning News Shannon Lilly spoke with Dr. Yolanda Ogbolu, dean of the 91大神 School of Nursing about the collective and their mission.

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Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN

School of Nursing

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March 6, 2025

The new Institute for Health Computing in Montgomery County with AI faculty from College Park linked with medical researchers from the 91大神-Baltimore and 91大神 Medical System across the state will support the existing bio cluster in the Bethesda-I-270 corridor.

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March 5, 2025

“Detention centers have become tinderboxes for infectious-disease outbreaks,” Mark Travassos, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics and a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the 91大神 School Of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, said in a statement.

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Mark Travassos, MD

School of Medicine

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March 5, 2025

Meanwhile, , DNP, NNP-BC, IBCLC, C-EFM, assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Nursing, says larger-scale programs can help combat the problem as well. 

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Anjana Solaiman, DNP, NNP-BC, IBCLC, C-EFM

School of Nursing

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March 5, 2025

The Trump administration’s moves to shrink the federal workforce put the FDA’s ability to regulate drugs and oversee the pharmaceutical industry at risk, according to current and former agency employees. 

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Peter Doshi, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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March 4, 2025

The female body has often been overlooked in science, and the vagina remains the most taboo part of it.

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Jacques Ravel, PhD

School of Medicine

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March 3, 2025

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just made it easier for patients to get clozapine, the only drug approved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia

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Deanna Kelly, PharmD, BCPP

School of Medicine

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March 3, 2025

Richard Barth, professor at the 91大神 School of Social Work, said the corrected data is not necessarily a comfort to those in his field, as he believes there are issues with the national reporting system at large.

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Richard Barth, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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February 27, 2025

Bottom Line Personal spoke with internationally renowned placebo expert Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS, about and how it can be used in health care today. 

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

School of Nursing

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February 27, 2025

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 27, 2025

“D.C. loses tax revenue if these players don’t live in D.C.,” says Donald Tobin, a professor of law at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Donald Tobin, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 27, 2025

A significant number of Americans experience chronic inflammatory skin conditions with no pinpointed cause and often no effective treatments beyond symptom management. Now a new study could pave the way for precision-medicine based diagnostic testing and targeted treatment.

 

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Shawn Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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February 27, 2025

In Baltimore City, the 11 grants the consortium issued take into account a stigma surrounding mental health services, said Jennifer Cox, director of the 91大神 School Mental Health Program, which received a $970,000 grant to run a number of programs.“We think in Baltimore City, we have to be a little bit more creative than just saying, ‘Come get help,’ ” Cox said.

 

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Jennifer Cox, LCSW-C

School of Medicine

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February 26, 2025

“There were patients who ended up relapsing into psychosis, patients who ended up hospitalized, patients who became violent,” said Raymond C. Love, a professor emeritus at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, who helped organize the effort.

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Raymond C. Love, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP

School of Pharmacy

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February 25, 2025

"Permanent daylight savings time is the worst possible option." Dr. Emerson Wickwire is a sleep specialist at the 91大神 School of Medicine and one of many experts..."

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Emerson M. Wickwire, PhD

School of Medicine

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February 25, 2025

Fluoride fortifies your tooth enamel, the hard outer layer protecting the soft pulp and sensitive nerves inside. “It helps make the teeth stronger and more resistant to breakdown, and it helps remineralize or re-harden teeth that have begun to soften,” says Erica Caffrey, DDS, a clinical assistant professor of pediatric dentistry at the Univ. of Maryland School of Dentistry and a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s Council for Clinical Affairs.

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Erica Caffrey, D.D.S.

School of Dentistry

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February 25, 2025

Catholic Charities of Baltimore won state grants to fight chronic absenteeism in three Maryland public school districts by connecting troubled students with the mental health services they need.

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Jennifer Cox, LCSW-C
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February 25, 2025

A new study found that weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may be contributing to a national trend of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis.

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Rozalina McCoy, MD

School of Medicine

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February 24, 2025

Another expert noted that a number of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders are currently pending. Any effort by the executive branch to learn more about the inner workings of the judiciary would be “a profoundly significant violation of an internal judicial process,” Max Stearns, a professor at the 91大神’s law school, told Bloomberg. 

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Max Stearns, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 24, 2025

“We have to invest in it in a significant way now and going forward for the next 30 years because so many of our young people are suffering,” said Britt Patterson, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine. “As a result, the adults in their lives are also struggling.”

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Brittany Renee Patterson, PhD

School of Medicine

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February 24, 2025

Paris Barnes, a senior training specialist with the PATIENTS Program at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, watched her biological father struggle with addiction when she was a child.

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Paris Barnes, MS

School of Pharmacy

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February 24, 2025

Anne Arundel County public service and government buildings will reopen on Tuesday, Feb. 25, as an investigation into a cyber incident continues, county officials say.

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Markus Rauschecker, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 24, 2025

County offices that were closed on Monday, like the Housing Resource Center and the Anne Arundel County Department of Health in Glen Burnie, will re-open on Tuesday following an ongoing "cyber incident" that led to a precautionary shutdown.

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Markus Rauschecker, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 21, 2025

Five years ago, Sally Proske was 30 and desperate. She had accumulated nearly $41,000 in high-interest credit card debt—more than she could comfortably pay off on her salary as a live-event and concert production manager in Chicago and still afford rent and food. She knew there was such a thing as debt relief companies and had a vague understanding that they could help her manage and even lower her debt, so she Googled to find one.

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Jeff Sovern, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 19, 2025

Maryland’s two law schools will be among the first in the nation to adopt a new bar exam next year.

The NextGen exam, designed to assess law graduates’ grasp of practical legal skills instead of their ability to memorize legal doctrine, focuses on core competencies such as negotiation, legal research and client counseling.

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Micah J. Yarbrough, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 19, 2025

“The traditional focus of the bar exam has been, in large part, to test the general knowledge base of law school graduates,” said Micah J. Yarbrough, director of bar programs at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law. “The NextGen aims to move the needle even farther toward aptitude assessment. The goals are to license more practice-ready applicants prepared to take on the challenges of the modern-day practitioner.”

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Micah J. Yarbrough, Director of Bar Preparation Programs and Lecturer

Carey School of Law

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February 19, 2025

Over the lifetime of the study program the collaborative research will include work with academic institutions and partners including Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, 91大神 School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liverpool, University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine, YouGov and the Human Animal Bond Research Institute, with the aim to deliver novel research and new insights. 

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February 15, 2025

In an ongoing effort to help alleviate the healthcare professional shortage on the Eastern Shore in Maryland, 91大神, Baltimore (UMB) is working with Londonderry on the Tred Avon to host an event for prospective high school and college students, as well as the surrounding community, to learn more educational pathways

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Cherilyn Hendrix, DHEd, MSBME, PA-C, DFAAPA

School of Graduate Studies

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February 13, 2025

“A little bit over 55% percent of our sample said things were getting a little better or much better. About 32% said things had not really changed, and about one in eight said things were really getting worse for interracial couples,” said Geoffrey Greif, a 91大神, Baltimore professor who holds a doctorate in social work.

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Geoffrey L Greif

School of Social Work

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February 13, 2025

In 2022 a patient named David Bennett became the first living person to receive a genetically modified pig heart transplant. A team at the 91大神 School of Medicine performed the surgery using a kidney with 10 edits to its genetic code from a pig engineered by Revivicor (a subsidiary of United Therapeutics, the company providing the organs for the new trial). Sadly, Bennett developed complications and died two months later.

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February 13, 2025

A local cosmetic surgery center on the northeast side of Ames has abruptly closed for unknown reasons.

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Nelson Goldberg, MD

School of Medicine

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February 12, 2025

Arthritis “is a process by which the cartilage, or cushion in a joint, wears away over time,” explains , an orthopedic surgeon and associate professor of orthopedics at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Sumon Nandi, MD, MBA, FAOA,

School of Medicine

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February 11, 2025

“It’s complete legal overreach,” Robert Percival, an environmental law professor at the 91大神, said of the multi-state lawsuit against New York. “A state says another state passes a superfund law, and we don’t like it so therefore it violates all our rights? Just unbelievable.”

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Robert Percival, MA, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 11, 2025

Dr. Cassidy Claassen is associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Cassidy W. Claassen, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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February 11, 2025

But Dr. Bruce Jarrell, president of the 91大神, Baltimore, said most of his university’s endowment money is designated by donors for scholarships or other specific uses. Foundations can’t make up the funding, and universities like his already put substantial funds toward research, he added.

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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February 11, 2025

“They told people to go home and not work at the office. At the same time, they’re saying to other government employees ‘no more remote work,’” says Jeff Sovern, a Michael Millemann professor of consumer law at the 91大神’s Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Jeff Sovern

Carey School of Law

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February 11, 2025

“Indirect cost recovery is necessary and pays for important expenses used to conduct research such as building maintenance, utilities, IT support, grants administration, animal care, protection for human subjects, safeguarding against unlawful conflicts of interest, compliance with federal regulations, and many other critical functions,” UMB president Bruce Jarrell wrote in a letter to UMB staff and students on Monday.

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President Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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February 10, 2025

Hip fractures in older adults can lead to serious complications, disability and even death. Traditionally, orthopaedic surgeons have repaired a common fracture of the upper part of the thigh bone, or femur, near the hip using screws and plates to piece together slightly separated pieces of bone. But many surgeons now treat these "minimally displaced" femoral neck fractures by replacing the hip joint with a metal implant.

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Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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February 10, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the federal agency responsible for protecting Americans from predatory financial practices—effectively ceased operations this weekend following the abrupt firing of its director, Rohit Chopra, marking one of the most significant reversals of consumer protections in recent history.

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Jeff Sovern, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 10, 2025

It’s easy to criticize the FDA, whether you think the agency makes it too hard for innovative treatments to help the patients who need them or that Big Pharma holds too much sway over decisions. We’ll avoid that fight and instead focus on why the public, with the FDA’s help, has misunderstood why so many Americans die from resistant infections every year. In short: The Food and Drug Administration focuses on bugs instead of patients.

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John H. Powers, MD

School of Medicine

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February 10, 2025

"We're going to have things hanging in the windows similar to what she hung in the window back during her time of practicing there that had inspiring messages," said Lydia Watts, the executive director of the ROAR Center.

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Lydia Watts, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 10, 2025

91大神, Baltimore named to Executive Alliance Honor Roll Award for Women’s Representation. Each award recipient has at least 30% of their executive leadership and board of director seats held by women. 

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February 7, 2025

On a hot summer day, a woman working with a state suicide prevention program was approached by her neighbor who asked to share a drink on her porch, and for a foam sleeve — known as a Koozie – to keep it cold.

The woman grabbed the first foam sleeve she saw — branded to promote ManTherapy.org — and handed it to her neighbor. The two shared a drink and the neighbor went back home, Koozie in hand.

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Jodi J. Frey, PhD, LCSW-C, CEAP

School of Social Work

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February 7, 2025

On the surface, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen centered on how New York issued permits to people who wanted to carry their guns in public. The Court said that the state’s practice of issuing concealed carry permits only to those who could prove they had a special need to carry a gun — like a threat to their personal safety — was a violation of their constitutional rights.

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Guha Krishnamurthi, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 6, 2025

The Erin Levitas Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending sexual violence by providing early education resources for youth, young people, caregivers, and educators, has launched a new question-and-answer portal, Every Body Has Questions, to support and encourage conversations about bodies, boundaries, and safety.

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Laurie M. Graham, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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February 6, 2025

As Psychiatric Times celebrates its 40th anniversary all year long, Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC sat down to discuss 40 years of mental health care and what has changed in psychiatry.
Robinson is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a professor at the 91大神 School of Nursing in Baltimore. She is also the director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the university.

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Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC

School of Nursing

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February 6, 2025

Authors and 91大神 School of Social Work researchers Geoffrey Greif, DSW, MSW, and Kathleen Holtz Deal, PhD, MSW, conducted more than 400 interviews with couples. The researchers found that maintaining friendships with other pairs could assist with solidifying a sense of self in couples and even up partners' attraction to each other.

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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February 6, 2025

Epps’ colleague Mark Graber, a law professor at the 91大神, has also studied the 14th Amendment. He tells Information: “Trump and his legal advisors’ argument collapses when you consider that children born to non-Americans can be deported. If they can be deported, it means they fall under U.S. jurisdiction.”

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 5, 2025

WalletHub asked a panel of experts to share some budgeting advice.

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Robert A. Gordon, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 5, 2025

“We are coming to the realization that there are certain gold standard treatments that we have to provide for our patients, which include medications for opioid use disorder,” Weintraub said.

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Eric Weintraub, MD

School of Medicine

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February 5, 2025

"Men construct friendships in , like [playing] sports or watching sports," says Greif. "They feel less comfortable interacting face-to-face, the way women construct friendships. Women like to get together and have more intimate conversations."

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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February 4, 2025

“Some defendants will, appropriately, seek to negotiate settlements,” Hoke told The Daily Record. “And many survivors will be willing to do so particularly if the settlements are not confidential. A huge part of the campaign for the CVA was about exposing organizations that harbor abusers. Survivors are far more motivated by bringing that to light and protecting today’s children than by money.” 

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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February 4, 2025

Trials will enable researchers to select people who are in better health than those first compassionate-use recipients to assess the transplant’s safety and efficacy, says Muhammad Mohiuddin, a surgeon and researcher at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MBBS

School of Medicine

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February 4, 2025

Dr. Brian Corwell, an emergency and sports medicine physician at the 91大神 School of Medicine, downplayed the idea that participants wearing protective garments put themselves at an increased risk.

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Brian Niall Corwell, MD

School of Medicine

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February 4, 2025

The trial leadership team includes co-principal investigators Gerard Slobogean, MD, director of clinical research for the Department of Orthopaedics at 91大神 School of Medicine,

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Gerard Slobogean

School of Medicine

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February 4, 2025

Dr. Eric Weintraub, a professor of psychiatry at the 91大神’s School of Medicine, said some populations have a harder time accessing appropriate health care and putting their trust in traditional medical institutions.

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Eric Weintraub, MD

School of Medicine

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February 3, 2025

As Psychiatric Times celebrates its 40th anniversary all year long, Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC sat down to discuss 40 years of mental health care and what has changed in psychiatry.

Robinson is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a professor at the 91大神 School of Nursing in Baltimore. She is also the director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the university.

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Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC

School of Nursing

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February 3, 2025

Under current state law, “you can only be considered for geriatric parole if you’ve been convicted of multiple violent offenses,” said Lila Meadows, an assistant public defender and clinical faculty member at the 91大神’s Francis King Carey School of Law. “That wouldn’t have been the [General Assembly’s] intent.”

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Lila N. Meadows

Carey School of Law

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February 3, 2025

In Baltimore, the rabbits were receiving a somewhat different concoction. They belonged to the lab of Allan Doctor, the director of the Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis, at the 91大神 School of Medicine, and the co-inventor of ErythroMer, a synthetic nanoparticle that mimics the oxygen-carrying role of red blood cells.

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Allan Doctor, MD

School of Medicine

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January 31, 2025

Protein kinases, enzymes that add phosphate groups to other proteins, are often dysregulated in diseases. This makes kinase inhibitors popular drugs, although they often target things they aren’t supposed to. To mitigate these off-target effects, scientists like Paul Shapiro are finding ways to target specific functions of a kinase, rather than inhibiting the whole enzyme. 

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Paul Shapiro, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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January 30, 2025

Mark Graber, a professor at the 91大神’s Francis King Carey School of Law, pointed to the 1996 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Printz v. United States. In that case, justices set the precedent that the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution does not give the federal government the authority to force state officials to carry out federal programs.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 30, 2025

The 91大神, Baltimore opened a 250,000-sf innovation center in January of 2024 to drive biomedical advances and accelerate the discovery of new health solutions.

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January 29, 2025

All children must be seen, viewed and treated as children, receive the benefit of their adolescence and be provided the supports and services needed to overcome any challenges they may face.  Michael Pinard and Monique L. Dixon are the faculty director and executive director, respectively, of the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Michael Pinard and Monique L. Dixon

Carey School of Law

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January 29, 2025

Five years after a novel virus rocked the world, killed millions, and continues to sicken people; amid ongoing outbreaks of bird flu and mpox and tuberculosis, public health and scientific research are being gutted in America—and it’s happening more quickly than even experts thought possible.

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Saskia Popescu, PhD, MA, MPH

School of Medicine

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January 29, 2025

“More people live with chronic pain than cancer, diabetes, and heart disease combined,” Da Silva said. “This study is a breakthrough in developing an accurate pain biomarker that could not only predict individuals’ pain but also help prevent who will develop such a debilitating condition—chronic pain.”

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Joyce Teixeira Da Silva, PhD

School of Dentistry

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January 29, 2025

ETC Baltimore, dedicated to elevating Baltimore as a national leader in tech startups, announces the opening of its inaugural ETC Venture Hub at Connect Labs Baltimore in the newly constructed 4MLK Building in the 91大神 BioPark.

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January 28, 2025

In an international effort, researchers at Western, the 91大神 School of Dentistry (UMSOD) and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) uncovered how specific patterns in brain activity can predict an individual’s sensitivity to pain, expanding opportunities for improved pain management strategies.  

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January 28, 2025

Mr. Laurenson was part of a study at the 91大神 School of Medicine to test a new monoclonal antibody designed to prevent malaria transmission. Specifically, he had agreed to take part in a human challenge trial, a research method in which volunteers are knowingly infected with a pathogen.

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January 28, 2025

As a pair of scholars, Elizabeth Palley and Corey Shdaimah, : Caring for very young children in the United States has not been framed as part of larger universal policies to support families. As a result, it has been left on the sidelines of major political discourse

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Corey Shdaimah, PhD, LLM, LLB

School of Social Work

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January 27, 2025

Everyone needs their vice. For me, it’s tacos. Tacos and a cheap can of beer. But each January, the tacos hit differently because the beer is gone. I’ve been Dry Januarying for longer than I can remember, and will be the first to praise the hashtag. Over time, mine has extended to February, March, and now through most of the year until the Midwest grows cold and the parties feel cozy.

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Daniel Roche, PhD

School of Medicine

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January 27, 2025

With a Day 1 executive order involving electric vehicles, President Donald Trump is seeking to upend Maryland programs to grow EV sales and install car chargers.

But experts say the path ahead is legally cloudy.

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Jon Mueller, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 26, 2025

The 91大神 School of Medicine partnered with the engAGE with Heart initiative to provide free health screenings at Baltimore area churches.

On Sunday, inside Mount Pleasant Church and Ministries, people got a little extra care from the inside out.

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Esa Davis, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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January 26, 2025

Mark Graber, professor, 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, discusses birthright citizenship on WBAL Radio.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 24, 2025

Of over 350,000 adults with type 2 diabetes, thyroid cancer risk was significantly higher within the first year after GLP-1 agonist initiation compared with SGLT2 inhibitors, DPP-4 inhibitors, or sulfonylureas (HR 1.85, 95% CI 1.11-3.08), reported Rozalina McCoy, MD, MS, of the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues.

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Rozalina G. McCoy, MD, MS

School of Medicine

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January 24, 2025

Researchers are also exploring adjuvants to enhance the effectiveness of bird flu vaccines. Matthew Frieman, a professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, is developing an adjuvant that could move to early-stage clinical trials within a year. “You don’t want to wait until it’s everywhere and then you decide to make a vaccine,” Frieman said.

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Matthew B. Frieman, PhD

School of Medicine

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January 24, 2025

Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the 91大神, said Trump tried to repeal coastline protections in his first term and got some pushback.

"It would be difficult," Percival explained. "When Trump tried to roll back, during his first term, some areas that had been protected by previous presidents, a judge said that the Act did not clearly give the president the authority to roll them back. So, it's kind of an open legal question."

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Robert Percival, MA, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 23, 2025

As victims of several natural disasters are facing homelessness and economic ruin, many are searching for an economic lifeline. The tax code will provide some assistance, but the benefit is haphazard, somewhat random, and mostly helps wealthy individuals. The provision is so complicated that receiving assistance under it is like winning the tax assistance lottery.

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Donald Tobin, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 22, 2025

The spread of influenza A, COVID and RSV is "high" or "very high" across much of the U.S. at the same time norovirus cases are well above normal levels, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and wastewater surveillance data shows.

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Saskia R. Popescu, PhD, MA, MPH

School of Medicine

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January 22, 2025

Dry January, a month-long stint of sobriety at the beginning of the new year, is growing in popularity in the United States.

According to data from Civic Science, 23 percent of U.S. adults 21 and over said they intended to take part in Dry January in 2023. That grew to 27 percent in 2024.

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Jessica R. Lee, MD

School of Medicine

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January 22, 2025

Psychiatric training instills in us the importance of completing a comprehensive initial evaluation of patients. We are each afforded varying time windows to complete our assessments with different documentation systems and sometimes additional information to satisfy requirements. 

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Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC

School of Nursing

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January 21, 2025

Robert Percival, an environmental law professor at the 91大神, called the Alabama et al. petition the “most outlandish of all” and said he expects the Supreme Court will reject it. “It doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on,” he said.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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January 21, 2025

In researching for his book, co-authored with Michael E Woolley, Adult Sibling Relationships Dr Geoffrey Greif found that one in five (21 per cent) of interviewees had a strained relationship with their adult siblings. The cosy ideal of supporting each other through the ups and downs of life like the Waltons siblings just isn’t realistic.

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Geoffrey L. Greif, PhD

School of Social Work

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January 20, 2025

The 91大神, Baltimore received $10.6 million for the state's Abortion Care Clinical Training Program and about $5 million was set aside to increase Medicaid provider's reimbursements for abortion care. 

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Mary Jo Bondy, DHEd, MHS, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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January 19, 2025

is a non profit that provides coaching and staff development, community school programming and policy recommendations for Maryland schools. Director Shantay McKinily talks about development strategies, school programs and what policy recommendations they have on the books for 2025.

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Shantay McKinily, MS

School of Social Work

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January 17, 2025

But unlike other immigration documents, eliminating U and T visas, with their humanitarian angles designed to help marginalized communities, would have devastating effects for immigrants who seek refuge in the U.S., Iris Cardenas, an assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Social Work said.

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Iris Cardenas, PhD, LSW

School of Social Work

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January 16, 2025

Years of efforts across the University System of Maryland, the real estate industry, local government and a variety of private and nonprofit players led to Wednesday night’s star-studded ribbon-cutting for 4MLK. Even the news that Baltimore was again left off the federal Tech Hubs funding list couldn’t dampen the excitement. 

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Bruce Jarrell, MD, FACS President, 91大神, Baltimore

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January 16, 2025

Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, MS, FAPhA, FNAP is the Gyi Endowed Memorial Professor of Pharmapreneurship and Associate Dean for Clinical Services and Practice Transformation at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy. She spoke with the Student Doctor Network about the 91大神 Pharmapreneurship® pathway.

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Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, MS, FAPhA, FNAP

School of Pharmacy

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January 16, 2025

With an approaching federal deadline, healthcare and legal experts have developed a framework for evaluating the use of AI-powered algorithms.

As AI, clinical algorithms and predictive analytics become more prevalent in healthcare, HHS finalized a rule April 26 to ensure that these tools do not discriminate "on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability."

By May 6, CMS-funded entities must comply with the rule.

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Katherine Goodman, Phd, JD

School of Medicine

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January 16, 2025

Baltimore gained a new hub for life science activity with the grand opening this week of an eight-story tower at the 91大神 BioPark.

4MLK is the name of the $180 million, 250,000-square-foot multi-tenant lab and office building that opened at 4 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. on what would have been the slain civil rights leader’s 96th birthday.

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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January 16, 2025

An eight-story science and tech hub that's been years in the making celebrated its grand opening this week, introducing new space to West Baltimore that a city developer believes can become an innovation center for the region.

Developer Wexford Science & Technology and the 91大神, Baltimore unveiled the 250,000-square-foot 4MLK building at 4 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. on Wednesday.

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Bruce Jarrell, MD, FACS

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January 16, 2025

While both drugs work for pain relief, Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, a professor and executive director at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland, explains that the two drugs are only taken together if a patient is experiencing a relatively complex pain situation.

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Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS

School of Pharmacy

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January 15, 2025

4MLK is the newest addition to the 91大神's BioPark, set to bring a wave of innovation and opportunity to Southwest Baltimore.

"This is going to represent a bold vision for breaking down silos between traditional engineering, bioengineering, and medicine," says Dr. Mark Gladwin, Dean of the 91大神 School of Medicine.

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Mark Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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January 15, 2025

The use of psychedelic-assisted therapy to treat trauma and other ailments is on the rise. 91大神, Baltimore puts it front and center with an interdisciplinary speaker series across social work, pharmacy, and nursing called Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Science and Practice of Psychedelic Therapies. 

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Megan Meyer, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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January 14, 2025

As wildfires rage in southern California, Scripps News spoke with Dr. Omer Awan, a professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, about the health risks involved for those nearby.

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Omer A. Awan, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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January 14, 2025

“Too often, the first sign of osteoporosis is a broken bone, which can lead to serious health issues,” USPSTF member said in a statement from the group.

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Esa Matius Davis, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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January 14, 2025

The鈥91大神, Baltimore (UMB) and the鈥91大神, College Park鈥(UMCP) have announced a $10 million gift from Edward and Jennifer St. John鈥痑nd the Edward St. John Foundation in support of a center focused on translational engineering and medicine.

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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January 13, 2025

In addition to guests, members and colleagues, Hyatt is extending its purpose of care to help enhance sleep routines, Hyatt is also providing complimentary, one-year subscriptions to Headspace to support nonprofit organizations, including Salt & Light Coalition Chicago, ReStore NYC, 91大神 Safe Center for Human Trafficking Survivors, Safe House Project, BEST Alliance and Survivor Alliance.

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Susan Esserman, JD

School of Graduate Studies

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January 13, 2025

Marty Bass is live from the 91大神 School of Pharmacy to discuss history and new technology.

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Leah Sera, PharmD, MA, BCPS

School of Pharmacy

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January 13, 2025

Christopher Plowe, adjunct professor of medicine at the 91大神 School of Medicine, agrees that Carter’s advocacy has helped governments and public health agencies around the world stay focused on eradicating Guinea worm disease. The Carter Center has pitched in, too, investing about $500 million since 1986.

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Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH, F.A.S.T.M.H.

School of Medicine

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January 13, 2025

Democratic states across the country are embarking on a pioneering effort to increase access to abortion by teaching people who are not doctors to offer and perform the procedure.

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Jessica Karen Lee, MD

School of Medicine

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January 11, 2025

“Grandpa can come [along] now,” said Dr. Bartley P. Griffith, a professor of transplant surgery in the university’s School of Medicine, about the artificial lung support device he helped create and commercialize before it was bought by Johnson & Johnson.

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Bartley P. Griffith, MD, FACS, FRCS

School of Medicine

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January 9, 2025

Dr. Clayborne is currently a faculty member at the 91大神 School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine with an academic focus on ethics, health policy, end-of-life care, and innovation/entrepreneurship. 

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Elizabeth Clayborne, MD, MA

School of Medicine

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January 8, 2025

Dr. Bartley Griffith, the lead surgeon involved in both the first and second pig heart transplantations at the 91大神, emphasized the need for continuous exploration of xenotransplantation as a feasible option for patients like Mr. Faucette, especially those who are ineligible for standard human heart transplants.

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Bartley P. Griffith, MD FACS, FRCS

School of Medicine

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January 7, 2025

As infections from three viruses—human metapneumovirus (HMPV), bird flu, and norovirus—continue to climb, infectious disease and population health experts told Newsweek about the recent rise in cases, prevention measures, and what may come next.

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Saskia Popescu, MD

School of Medicine

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January 7, 2025

Despite living far away from Canada, Maryland residents experienced more cardiopulmonary disease health concerns in June 2023 believed to be due to Canadian wildfire pollution, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

 

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Bradley Maron, MD

School of Medicine

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January 6, 2025

A new report once again raises the question of whether there is a link between fluoride in drinking water and lower IQ levels in children.

The research, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, is a review of 74 other studies exploring how the mineral may affect children’s IQ levels.

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Erica Caffrey, DDS

School of Dentistry

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January 3, 2025

“We have had the data on some of the cancers for a very long time that they directly associate with cancer, and those were breast, colon, these two we've known for a long time. Liver, you know, these are big cancers,” said Dr. Niharika Khanna of 91大神 School of Medicine. “I think the entire medical community has known that, but the surgeon general hadn't stepped up yet to recommend these guidelines.”

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Niharika Khanna, MBBS, MD, D.G.O.

School of Medicine

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January 1, 2025

Expanding the pool of health care providers with reproductive health care skills outside of the state’s urban centers is vital, said Mary Jo Bondy, associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the 91大神, Baltimore. She helped create the new training program.

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Mary Jo Bondy, DHEd, MHS, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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December 30, 2024

Now 53 and in recovery, Hinman helps people struggling with a gambling problem navigate the resources available to them. As a peer recovery specialist at the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, he fields calls and messages from those seeking help for trouble with gambling at casinos, on the lottery or on sports, whether for themselves or for a loved one.

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William Hinman, CPRS, RPS

School of Medicine

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December 29, 2024

A number of birth conditions can lead to one foot being a significantly different size than the other. For instance, "if you're born with a club foot, that whole extremity is smaller than the opposite side," Dr. Jacob Wynes, an associate professor and chief of podiatric services at the 91大神 School of Medicine, told Live Science.

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Jacob Wynes, DPM, FACFAS

School of Medicine

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December 27, 2024

Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, professor and codirector of the Mental Health Program, 91大神, School of Pharmacy, explained that the new target of the treatment helps to control the adverse effects of the medication.15 Xanomeline is the part of the treatment that helps with psychosis, but trospium is only working to help with the side effects of the xanomeline.

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Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP

School of Pharmacy

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December 22, 2024

Christopher W.T. Miller, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing at the 91大神 Medical Center and an associate professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine. He is the author of “The Object Relations Lens: A Psychodynamic Framework for the Beginning Therapist.”

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Christopher W.T. Miller, MD

School of Medicine

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December 18, 2024

“Baltimore had very dark skies, and we could all smell the smoke in the air,” said Mary Maldarelli, MD, a pulmonary critical care fellow at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM), who is the first author on the study. “But most importantly, my patients came in to me saying they were coughing quite a bit more and needed their medications more often, so they felt much sicker than they usually did when these wildfires occurred.”

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Mary E. Maldarelli, MD

School of Medicine

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December 18, 2024

For some, it’s the sound of wailing parents that are indelible. Hershaw Davis, who has worked as an emergency nurse at Johns Hopkins for years and teaches nurses at the 91大神 Medical School, said the sounds of grieving parents stay with him.

“When you hear a mother or a father cry over their child's dead body, and I've heard it a lot, you will never forget that cry in your life,” Davis said.

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Hershaw Davis Jr., DNP, MBA, RN

School of Nursing

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December 17, 2024

The Trump administration can’t overrule those state laws, said Kathi Hoke, director of the Network for Public Health Law’s eastern region and a professor at the 91大神 law school. They can’t tell a state “how it can act within its own borders on a public health measure, generally speaking,” she said.

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Kathleen Hoke, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 17, 2024

“We have to have the courage to continue,” said 91大神 transplant surgeon Dr. Bartley Griffith. Back in 2022, Griffith had a hard time figuring out how to ask a dying patient if he’d consider undergoing the world’s first transplant of a gene-edited pig heart.

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Bartley Griffith, MD

School of Medicine

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December 16, 2024

To find out how that program is going, we turn to Dr. Jessica Lee, an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at the 91大神 School of Medicine and co-principal investigator of the training program. And we speak with Samantha Marsee, a nurse practitioner who recently completed the training.

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Jessica Lee, MD

School of Medicine

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December 16, 2024

Michael Pinard, a professor at the 91大神 School of Law, runs a legal clinic through which law students represent kids who are facing expulsion, suspension or other discipline at school, with the goal of keeping them out of the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

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Michael Pinard, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 16, 2024

Against the above background, Shawn G. Kwatra, Maryland Itch Center, 91大神 School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, and colleagues aimed to assess the risk of sleep disorders in prurigo nodular patients and explore their connection to system inflammation and negative cardiovascular outcomes.

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Shawn G. Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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December 16, 2024

Researchers from the 91大神 Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC) found that medical visits for heart and lung problems rose by nearly 20 percent during six days in June, 2023, when smoke from Western Canadian wildfires drifted across the country, leading to very poor air quality days in Baltimore and the surrounding region.

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Mary Maldarelli, MD

School of Medicine

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December 16, 2024

"BNC2 neurons in the hypothalamus, which are activated by the hunger hormone leptin, provide the potential for a completely new class of obesity drugs," said Mark T. Gladwin, MD, who is the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean of UMSOM, and Vice President for Medical Affairs at 91大神, Baltimore. "These drugs would be distinct from Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonists, which stimulate insulin secretion."

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Mark Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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December 16, 2024

If a person has smoked for a decade or more, the addiction might be more challenging to break because of how ingrained that behavior is, according to Dr. Niharika Khanna. Khanna, a professor of family and community medicine at Baltimore’s 91大神 School of Medicine for more than 30 years, is the director of the Maryland Tobacco Control Resource Center.

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Niharika Khanna, MBBS, MD, D.G.O.

School of Medicine

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December 14, 2024

It's a Christmas miracle for West Baltimore resident Paulette Carroll.

"My granddaughter, she is three months old. But we need toys to have her looking around and moving her head and stuff. So this is wonderful, and it plays music," said Carroll. 

Today she gets to holiday shop for her grandchildren for a fraction of the price these toys would cost in stores.

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Brian Sturdivant, MSW

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December 13, 2024

Wildfire smoke wafting across the country from North America West blazes may be leading to cardiac and respiratory issues thousands of miles away, a new study has found.

Medical visits for heart and lung issues in the Baltimore region surged by 20 percent during six days in June 2023, when smoke from Western Canada blazes drifted across the continent, according to the study, published on Friday in JAMA Network Open.

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Bradley Maron, MD

School of Medicine

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December 13, 2024

FDA advisors said that more data are needed to fully understand if there are broader safety concerns related to use of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines in young children after an mRNA vaccine trial was halted earlier this year.

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Karen Kotloff, MD

School of Medicine

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December 12, 2024

“Women who would be more comfortable collecting their HPV test sample themselves can now do so,” Dr. Esa Davis, a task force member and a professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine, said in a statement. “We hope that this new, effective option helps even more women get screened regularly.”

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Esa Davis, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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December 12, 2024

91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law professor Doug Colbert does not think a competency hearing will be needed due to Mangione’s educational background and academic prowess. Colbert said Mangione likely understands the gravity of the case against him.

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Douglas Colbert, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 11, 2024

In a word: diffusion. Innovation works best in density — where invention and commercialization can walk to get a coffee. Plenty of Baltimore leaders get this: look at 91大神 Biopark’s chief Jane Shaab, UpSurge executive director and obsessive organizer Kory Bailey and the well-regarded Impact Hub Baltimore, all tireless connectors. 

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Jane Shaab, MBA

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December 11, 2024

Although deporting U.S. citizens is unconstitutional, it has happened illegally in the past, according to Mittelstadt and Maureen Sweeney, the director of the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law.

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Maureen Sweeney, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 11, 2024

“Women who would be more comfortable collecting their HPV test sample themselves can now do so,” said task force member Esa Davis, associate VP for community health at the 91大神 Baltimore. “We hope that this new, effective option helps even more women get screened regularly.”

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Esa Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP

School of Medicine

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December 11, 2024

Jay Unick, a professor at the 91大神 School of Social Work, said harm reduction outreach needs to reach communities that have been disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis in Baltimore, specifically older African American men. Historically, many in the city smoked or snorted opioids, Unick said.

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Jay Unick, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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December 10, 2024

“Our goals were to revitalize the neighborhoods near the university and offer an awesome benefit to our employees,” said Dawn Rhodes, the institution’s chief business and finance officer and senior vice president. “This is our community, and we care enough that we want to invest in it.”

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Dawn M. Rhodes, DBA

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December 10, 2024

In a recent study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Joanna Cooper at the 91大神 School of Medicine, Aurelien Lathuiliere at Massachusetts General Hospital and a team of researchers focused on a receptor called Sortilin-related receptor 1, or SORL1, that is involved in tau accumulation inside the cells.

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Joanna Cooper, PhD

School of Medicine

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December 10, 2024

“The evidence on zinc is far from settled: we need more research before we can be confident in its effects,” Susan Wieland, an assistant professor at the 91大神 School of Medicine who authored a 2024 review of existing studies on zinc supplements and the common cold, said.

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Lisa Susan Wieland, MPH, PHD

School of Medicine

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December 10, 2024

“We are highlighting that HPV screening, as the primary screening for women ages 30 to 65, is the best balance between the benefits and the harms in finding cervical cancer, and that should be offered first and when available,” said task force member Dr. Esa Davis, professor and senior associate dean for population health and community medicine at the 91大神 in Baltimore.

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Esa Davis, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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December 9, 2024

Lower-body weakness, cognitive impairment, problems with balance, poor hearing or vision, and certain medications all can increase the risk of falling, says Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, an endowed chair in gerontology at the 91大神 in Baltimore. Blood pressure medications are particularly worrisome. “When you stand up, your blood pressure automatically goes down, and if it goes too low, you can get dizzy,” says Dr. Resnick.

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Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN

School of Nursing

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December 6, 2024

Frequent snoring is a driver of behavior problems like inattention in the classroom, rule-breaking and aggression, but a new study from the 91大神 School of Medicine recently found that overtime snoring does not appear to have a cognitive impact on teen’s academic abilities.

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Amal Isiah, MBBS, DPhil, MBA

School of Medicine

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December 5, 2024

Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

The justices’ decision, not expected for several months, could affect similar laws enacted by another 25 states and a range of other efforts to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use.

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Anya Marino, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 5, 2024

In Michigan, a federal judge has held that the state’s newborn screening program violates parents’ constitutional rights by retaining newborn blood spots for research purposes and purportedly turning them over to police for investigative use. Research data related to drug use, chemical exposure, criminal sentencing, and child abuse have been sought for investigation and criminal and civil cases 

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Natalie Ram, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 5, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to ensure clean water while slashing the federal bureaucracy will soon face a major test, with his administration set to influence the future of the nation’s largest estuary.

An Obama-era blueprint for protecting the Chesapeake Bay faces a critical deadline at the end of next year. The states surrounding the sprawling body of water must now determine next steps, working with input from the federal government.

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Jon Mueller, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 5, 2024

In a study published in the Dec. 5 issue of Nature, a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Medical Genetics at Rockefeller University in New York, the Institute for Genome Science (IGS) at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) in Baltimore, as well as New York and Stanford Universities discovered a new population of neurons that is responsive to the hormone leptin.

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Brian R. Herb, PhD

School of Medicine

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December 5, 2024

Probiotics — live microorganisms, typically bacteria and yeasts, that are intended to improve health — have intrigued scientists for more than a century, but interest has grown dramatically over the past decade. Their potential for treating or preventing a range of diseases, coupled with their apparent safety, has made probiotics an enticing and lucrative industry that is only expected to grow.

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Jacques Ravel, PhD

School of Medicine

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December 4, 2024

“ROAR’s attorneys have represented many survivors of domestic violence in their protection order hearings in Baltimore City. Many of them tell the judge they are fearful because their partner has a gun, and the judge replies that the order requires the partner to turn over their gun to the state police."

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Lydia Watts, JD

School of Graduate Studies

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December 3, 2024

The special counsel appointed to investigate President-elect Donald J. Trump is wrapping up his work without the charges he brought in two cases ever going in front of a jury.

The special counsel named to lead the inquiry into Hunter Biden, the president’s son, has just seen the two convictions he secured wiped away by a presidential pardon.

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Michael Greenberger, JD

Carey School of Law

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December 3, 2024

This report features two studies of multisector, community-driven partnerships committed to advancing maternal and infant health outcomes: B’more for Healthy Babies in Baltimore, Maryland, and Cradle Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. While the impetus for these initiatives was concern over alarming infant mortality rates, these partnerships also strive to center the voices and experiences of expectant mothers.

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Stacey Stephens, MSW, LCSW-C

School of Social Work

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December 3, 2024

The Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) and the Maryland Department of Commerce are pleased to announce the Baltimore City Board of Estimates’ approval of a $200,000 conditional loan to support the establishment of 4MLK Connect Labs, a state-of-the-art flex lab space in the 91大神 BioPark in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jane M. Shaab, MBA

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December 3, 2024

March 26, 2024, was a weird day for me because it was the only one in my life where I was actively trying to get bitten by mosquitos.

I had volunteered to be exposed to malaria as part of a study at the 91大神, Baltimore (UMB) evaluating MAM-01, an injectable drug meant to prevent infection. And by “exposed to malaria” I mean “bitten by mosquitos infected with malaria.”

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Kirsten Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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December 2, 2024

Cases in which someone in apparently good health is physically restrained by police and has a cardiac arrest represent a failure of the medical profession — not just of law enforcement.

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Victor W. Weedn, MD, JD

School of Graduate Studies

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December 2, 2024

Maryland is facing a daunting shortfall of nearly 33,000 behavioral health workers over the next few years to keep the state fully staffed and fight off attrition. The number comes from a report commissioned by the Maryland Health Care Commission and presented to the state’s Medicaid Advisory Board.

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Amanda Lehning, PhD, MSS

School of Social Work

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December 2, 2024

The study found that compared to those with other blood types, those with blood type A had a 16% increased chance of having an early stroke. While having blood type A does not ensure a stroke, it does suggest that this population may be at greater risk. The most prevalent blood type, O, on the other hand, appears to provide some protection; individuals in this group had a 12% reduced risk of an early stroke than those in other blood types.

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Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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December 1, 2024

Now that phase one of the holidays is over, it is time for families to prepare for the longer, and often more nettlesome, Christmas season. A bunch of religious and cultural holidays fall around this time also (e.g., Ashura [the beginning of December], Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Korean and Chinese New Year [the end of January], and others). 

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Geoffrey Greif, PhD, MSW

School of Social Work

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November 28, 2024

A newly formed psychedelics task force in Maryland held its initial meetings this month, beginning work on what will eventually become a report to lawmakers on how to reform the state’s laws on substances such as psilocybin, DMT and mescaline.

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Andrew Coop, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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November 27, 2024

WJZ partnered with the 91大神, Baltimore and the 91大神 Medical Center Midtown Campus for their annual Thanksgiving drive.

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November 27, 2024

Boosters of the project say the building was designed to provide much-needed wet laboratory space for researchers and companies and foster collaboration between the 91大神, Baltimore and the 91大神 Medical Center.

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November 27, 2024

In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee's clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there's not a single clinic that provides abortions. And until recently, Marsee herself wasn't trained to treat patients who wanted to end a pregnancy.

"I didn't really have a lot of knowledge about abortion care," she said.

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Mary Jo Bondy, DHEd, MHS, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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November 26, 2024

You’ve likely heard the phrase, “Sharing is caring.” Perhaps you’ve even used some version of this expression when talking to the children in your life. It’s true that sharing is a way to show we care for others, but it’s not an automatic skill we hold — it’s a developmental milestone that has to be established and nourished.

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Ashley Fehringer

School of Social Work

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November 25, 2024

The $2.2 million funding package from the state and the city will help fuel the creation of Connect Labs, a combination of pre-built lab space, support services and office space that will be located in the upcoming 4MLK tower on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

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November 22, 2024

A rash of high-profile Listeria recalls has many wondering what’s gone wrong in the United States food system. What appears to be a surge could actually be due to . Still, with Donald Trump set to return to the Oval Office, the threat of declining food safety is very real.

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Reina Steinzor, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 22, 2024

Spiritual beliefs and lack of trust in clinical research may influence Black individuals’ decisions about whether to participate in cancer trials, according to findings presented at American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting.

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Charlyn Gomez

School of Medicine

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November 22, 2024

Adolescents who snore frequently were more likely to exhibit behavior problems such as inattention, rule-breaking, and aggression, but they do not have any decline in their cognitive abilities, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM).

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Amal Isaiah, MBBS, DPhil, MBA

School of Medicine

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November 21, 2024

Eastern shore residents often lack the access to the healthcare they need. The 91大神 School of Medicine is tackling that problem with the ‘Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective’ (or R-HEALE) program. Students are mentored and trained with a focus on rural health needs. We talk with the director, Dr. Leah Millstein and first year student Sarah MacDonald.

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Leah Millstein, MD

School of Medicine

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November 21, 2024

For decades, the common medical shorthand has been that if you have a young-to-middle-age white female patient of northern European ancestry with neurological symptoms, you should immediately suspect multiple sclerosis (MS). That shorthand is not wrong, but it also doesn't capture the true complexity and prevalence of MS.

 

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Mitchell T. Wallin, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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Report calls for reforms in Maryland’s handling of youth tried and imprisoned as adults

November 20, 2024

Maryland is among the worst states in the nation when it comes to the number of prison inmates who began their time behind bars for crimes they committed as children, according to a report set to be released Wednesday.

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Jamel Freeman

School of Social Work

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November 20, 2024

A joint FDA advisory committee on Tuesday overwhelming voted to eliminate the risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) program designed around the risk for severe neutropenia associated with clozapine, a drug used to treat schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

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Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS

School of Pharmacy

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November 20, 2024

Leigh Goodmark, a professor at The 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law who has studied gender-based violence and the law, said recent high-profile court cases are cause for concern. In 2022, Johnny Depp won a defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard, who alleged abuse in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

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Leigh Goodmark, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 19, 2024

Ag law experts from Ohio and West Virginia along with a county planner from Maryland gave a rundown on agritourism trends and legal implications at the 10th annual Agriculture and Environmental Law Conference hosted Nov. 12 by the 91大神’s Agriculture Law Education Initiative.
While activities such as corn mazes, petting zoos and hay rides on working farms are typical agritourism practices, some other money-making ventures are not as clearly defined.

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Margaret Todd, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 19, 2024

"The pardon power is unlimited," said Mark Graber, a constitutional law professor at the 91大神. "Let’s imagine a different president who decides, ‘I’m going to pardon everyone engaged in insider trading who is over six feet tall.’ Utterly arbitrary. They can do it."

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 19, 2024

The Eastern Shore is designed as a medically underserved area, said Dr. Donna Parker, a senior associate dean at the UM School of Medicine. “People there have trouble getting to the doctor, finding doctors that are available with appointments in a timely fashion, having to drive too far to get a doctor,” she said.

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Donna Parker, MD, FACP

School of Medicine

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November 18, 2024

Maryland has experienced a “significant increase” in cannabis-related emergency department visits, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

The health department launched a data dashboard last week to track public health impacts of cannabis and visualize trends pre- and post-marijuana legalization in the state.

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Christopher Welsh, MD

School of Medicine

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November 16, 2024

In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee's clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there's not a single clinic that provides abortions. And until recently, Marsee herself wasn't trained to treat patients who wanted to end a pregnancy.

"I didn't really have a lot of knowledge about abortion care," she said.

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Mary Jo Bondy DHEd, MHS, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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November 16, 2024

In order to find any information on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine policy on his Make America Healthy Again website, you must first scroll through sections asking for donations, official MAHA merch, and an ad offering the opportunity to “secure your place” on a tile in a mosaic of Trump and RFK Jr. shaking hands. Only then, after clicking through eight pages of videos, will you find a video titled “My Take on Vaccines.” 

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Wilber Chen, MD

School of Medicine

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November 15, 2024

He is the most influential anti-vaxxer in the world, one of the “Disinformation Dozen.” He is an AIDS denier who has revived old conspiracy theories about HIV. He claims that Covid was “ethnically targeted” to spare certain groups of people and that Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates are part of a “vaccine cartel” that produces fake studies in order to impose global lockdowns and 5G.

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Saskia Popescu, PhD, MA, MPH

School of Medicine

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November 15, 2024

It isn’t ancient history. Just 1,409 days ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump told supporters gathered in Washington to “fight like hell,” walk down to the U.S. Capitol and give House Republicans “the kind of pride and boldness that they need” to refuse to certify the 2020 election following Joe Biden’s decisive win in the presidential election.

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Mark Graber, PhD, JD, MA

Carey School of Law

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November 14, 2024

A meta-analysis led by researchers at the 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) has uncovered a surprising link between blood type and the risk of having an early stroke. 

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Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH,

School of Medicine

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November 14, 2024

Expanding the pool of health care providers with reproductive health care skills outside of the state’s urban centers is vital, said Mary Jo Bondy, associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the 91大神, Baltimore. She helped create the new training program.

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Mary Jo Bondy, DHEd, MHS, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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November 14, 2024

"Doctors are contending with an explosion of cannabis use, and the THC content has quadrupled from what it was a generation ago. It demonstrates the enduring consequences that prenatal cannabis exposure exerts on the brain's reward system, which ultimately results in a neurobiological vulnerability to opioid drugs," Joseph Cheer, PhD, study corresponding author, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the 91大神 School of Medicine, said.

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Joseph Cheer, PhD

School of Medicine

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November 13, 2024

For a child suffering from abuse or neglect to become so malnourished she appears gaunt is “exceedingly rare,” said Dr. Howard Dubowitz, a professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Families at the 91大神 School of Medicine in Baltimore.

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Howard Dubowitz, MB,ChB, FAAP

School of Medicine

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November 13, 2024

Expanding the pool of health care providers with reproductive health care skills outside of the state’s urban centers is vital, said Mary Jo Bondy, associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the 91大神-Baltimore. She helped create the new training program.

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Mary Jo Bondy, MHed, MHS, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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November 12, 2024

Proud Boys organizer and Ormond Beach, Florida native Joe Biggs is chipping away at a 17-year-prison sentence for his role on January 6th.

Biggs’ attorney, Norm Pattis, is writing to President-Elect Donald Trump, saying it’s in the public interest to commute Biggs’ sentence.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 11, 2024

President-elect Trump’s promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health is demoralizing public health experts, who worry he could meddle with key government agencies, amplify vaccine hesitancy and direct agency funding to favor his preferred views.

Those include removing fluoride from public water, promoting a wide variety of unorthodox and unproven treatments and pushing a deep skepticism of pharmaceutical companies and the agencies overseeing them.

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Saskia Popescu, PhD, MA, MPH

School of Medicine

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November 11, 2024

Diabetes is very common in people living in post-acute and long-term environments, affecting 25% to 34% of these individuals. 

Now there’s a wonderful new resource for those caring for them in the revised Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting, which was recently published by the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association

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Barbara Resnick, PhD, RN, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP

School of Nursing

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November 11, 2024

To the Editor:

Re “It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to Sign Away Your Right to a Trial,” by Peter Coy (Opinion, nytimes.com, Oct. 28):
Mr. Coy reports the Chamber of Commerce’s claim that arbitration provides larger recoveries than litigation. In fact, arbitration clauses effectively block consumers from asserting claims unless, as multiple studies have shown, consumers have $1,000 or even more at stake.

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Jeff Sovern, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 10, 2024

Is it normal to feel this anxious all the time? How do I know if it’s too much?

These are questions many of my patients ask. Anxiety affects all of us and can be thought of as tension or worry about a situation or stressor.

Anxiety can be adaptive and is a necessary survival skill, given that our environments can be dangerous and unpredictable.

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Christopher W.T. Miller, MD

School of Medicine

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November 7, 2024

Expanding the pool of health care providers with reproductive health care skills outside of the state’s urban centers is vital, said Mary Jo Bondy, associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the 91大神-Baltimore. She helped create the new training program.

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Mary Jo Bondy, DHEd, MHS, PA-C

School of Graduate Studies

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November 6, 2024

With Donald Trump having successfully secured the presidency of the United States, significant shifts in American public health policy could be forthcoming.

Professor Omer A. Awan, MD, MPH, is a senior contributor for Forbes.

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Omer A. Awan, MD, MPH

School of Medicine

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November 6, 2024

With Trump soon to be in office,  Mark A. Graber, a professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, expects a major shift in how January 6 cases are handled. 

"Trump is the president, and in the United States, the president basically controls prosecutions," Graber said.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 6, 2024

Luanna told us about this study that showed if doctors told patients they were turning off pain medication, even when they weren't, that expectation could completely reverse the effects of strong opioids. 

LUANNA: We reverse completely the action of opioids. That is how much words are critical in clinical settings. 

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

School of Nursing

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November 6, 2024

"The 91大神, Baltimore, is really a series of relatively independent schools,” said Deacon Bauerschmidt. "It’s catering to a graduate school population (in public health, law and human services). So that’s an incredibly important audience to reach to foster discussions on how you practice medicine or law as a Catholic. What are the church’s social teachings and how do they affect how you think about social work?"

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November 5, 2024

Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, a professor of practice, sciences and health outcomes research at the 91大神 School of Pharmacy, in Baltimore, said the results are significant because “the high cost of medications has been a major obstacle for many managing their health conditions.”

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Cherokee Layson-Wolf, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

School of Pharmacy

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November 5, 2024

“Since we define ‘heritage’ as including culture, geography, and genetics, one of the most interesting parts of this research is that we were able to explore the distant genetic relatedness among Latin American countries through population structure and migration patterns,” said Victor Borda, PhD, corresponding author on the paper and Research Associate at the 91大神 School of Medicine. “

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Victor Borda, PhD

School of Medicine

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November 4, 2024

A lawyer for Elon Musk said in a Philadelphia courtroom Monday that the winners of Musk’s $1 million daily prize giveaway in election swing states are not chosen at random, contradicting what Musk said when he announced the contest last month. Legal experts told NBC News that the disclosure could have legal fallout for Musk across multiple jurisdictions under laws designed to protect consumers from deceptive practices. 

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Jeff Sovern

Carey School of Law

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November 4, 2024

From a young age, I was fascinated by the human body and its complexities. Growing up in a small village in southern Italy, I had an insatiable curiosity about science and how we experience pain, heal and recover. 

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS

School of Nursing

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November 1, 2024

“If there’s unified (Republican) government, we’re going to see lots of legislation, executive orders (and) judicial rulings that the majority of Marylanders are not going to like,” said Mark Graber, a 91大神 law professor and a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics.

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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November 1, 2024

Researchers at the 91大神 have created a comprehensive genomic database, GLADdb, to improve diversity in genomics research by including extensive Latin American DNA data.

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Timothy O'Connor, PhD

School of Medicine

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November 1, 2024

The 91大神 School of Pharmacy hosted the free Pharmapreneurship Summit Oct. 8, bringing together thought leaders to engage with the university community, to propose bold and innovative ideas to address challenges and opportunities for the pharmacy world and to celebrate its successes.

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Sarah L.J. Michel, PhD

School of Pharmacy

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October 31, 2024

The 91大神, Baltimore broke ground on its $120 million, six-story School of Social Work (UMSSW) building that is slated to be the first net-zero emissions building within the University System of Maryland and downtown Baltimore. The 127,000-square-foot building will consolidate the school’s Master of Social Work and Doctor of Philosophy programs—currently dispersed across three locations—into one modern, flexible space.

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Anna Borgerding, MA

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October 31, 2024

For nearly three decades, Dr. Bruce E. Jarrell, M.D., FACS, has served the 91大神 Baltimore.

The kidney and liver transplant surgeon first joined the higher educational institution in 2005 as the vice dean of academic affairs. 

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Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS President, 91大神, Baltimore

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October 30, 2024

Although Bruen invalidates regulations inconsistent with the historical tradition of U.S. firearm regulation, states retain significant power to disarm dangerous individuals, argue Guha Krishnamurthi, professor at the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, and Peter N. Salib, professor at the University of Houston Law Center, in a recent article.

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Guha Krishnamurthi, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 30, 2024

“I think that it’s an interesting way to take information that we already have and synthesize it into a picture we could use like an aid to support the family,” added Mutiat Onigbanjo, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the 91大神 School of Medicine and medical director of the 91大神 Pediatrics at Midtown in Baltimore.

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Mutiat Onigbanjo, MD

School of Medicine

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October 30, 2024

Robyn Gilden, a nurse and environmental expert at the 91大神 School of Nursing, said additional risk factors for heat-related illness or death include whether a person works outside, whether they’re overweight, heart disease and age.

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Robyn Gilden, PhD, RN

School of Nursing

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October 30, 2024

 Robyn Gilden, a nurse and environmental expert at the 91大神 School of Nursing, said additional risk factors for heat-related illness or death include whether a person works outside, whether they’re overweight and age.

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Robyn Gilden, PhD, RN

School of Nursing

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October 29, 2024

Set to open in fall 2024, 4MLK is more than just a building—it’s a game-changer for West Baltimore. This 8-story, 250,000-square-foot facility will provide critical lab and office space for scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators working on the cutting edge of technology and medicine. Positioned at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Baltimore St., 4MLK is designed to be a beacon of collaboration.

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Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS

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October 29, 2024

The increase for the 91大神’s Francis King Carey School of Law comes after last year’s slight dip, and this year marks another steady increase for students at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

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Renée Hutchins Laurent, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 29, 2024

Community members and project leaders came together on Oct. 17 to break ground on the new 91大神 Baltimore (UMB) School of Social Work. The 127,000-square-foot building will support programs that address the growing demand for social workers across the country while promoting cross-campus collaboration, environmentalism, and accessibility. 

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Judy L. Postmus, PhD, ACSW

School of Social Work

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October 29, 2024

A newly described stage of lymph node–like structures, known as tertiary lymphoid structures, identified in hepatic tumors following presurgical immunotherapy may be vital to successfully treating patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, according to a recent study published by Shu et al in Nature Immunology.

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Daniel Shu, MD

School of Medicine

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October 28, 2024

Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, shares 5 tips for clinicians on self care. While self care is a popular buzzword, it is harder to find tangible elements that you can implement as a clinician. Here's a good place to start.

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Sara Robinson, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC

School of Nursing

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October 27, 2024

Treatment adherence is a big challenge for patients with schizophrenia, as is the appropriate use of clozapine in treatment-resistant schizophrenia, said Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, professor and codirector of the Mental Health Program, 91大神, School of Pharmacy. She also noted that telehealth hasn’t been as helpful for treating patients with schizophrenia as it has in other areas of care.

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Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP

School of Pharmacy

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October 27, 2024

As a scientist who has spent my entire professional career developing countermeasures like vaccines against mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, we cannot ignore the danger posed by climate change and its effect on infectious diseases.

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Kirsten Lyke, MD

School of Medicine

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October 24, 2024

Rhea Roper Nedd has been named assistant vice president of equity, diversity, and inclusion at the 91大神, Baltimore. She brings over a decade of experience in developing diversity programs to her new role. Most recently, she served as director of the Center for Student Diversity at Towson University in Maryland.

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Rhea Roper Nedd, PhD

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October 24, 2024

The 91大神 School of Medicine (UMSOM) has launched the Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective (R-HEALE) designed to train and place incoming medical students in Eastern Shore healthcare practices. 

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Mark T. Gladwin, MD

School of Medicine

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October 24, 2024

We are now beginning to understand some of the mechanisms—psychological and biological—that give rise to nocebo effects. Studies in both laboratory and clinical settings, some of which are described in other chapters, document the important role of information and expectations in generating nocebo effects.

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Luana Colloca, MD, PhD

School of Nursing

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October 23, 2024

There’s so much more compassion from doctors and family members,” Shawn Kwatra of the 91大神 School of Medicine told me. Itch, he added, “is just not respected.” Perhaps doctors do not respect it because, until recently, they did not really understand it.

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Shawn Gaurav Kwatra, MD

School of Medicine

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October 23, 2024

The Apache Stronghold has asked the Supreme Court to block Resolution Copper from digging up more than a billion tons of copper. If the mine moves forward, the land could subside, creating a depression more than 1,000 feet deep and almost 2 miles wide. “This is the route environmentalists should be taking in trying to establish these strategic alliances,” said Robert Percival, director of the environmental law program at the 91大神.

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Robert Percival, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 23, 2024

Anne Arundel County Public Schools are warning parents about a rise in whooping cough cases. The district has identified three cases since Sept. 10. Dr. Esther Liu, from the 91大神 Baltimore Washington Medical Center, says whooping cough is preventable with vaccines.

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Esther K. Liu, MD

School of Medicine

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October 22, 2024

In September, the FDA approved the first new schizophrenia treatment in decades.1 Cobenfy (xanomeline and trospium chloride) has a new mechanism of action, and there is a lot of potential for this drug in treating patients with schizophrenia, said Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP, professor and codirector of the Mental Health Program, 91大神, School of Pharmacy.

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Megan Ehret, PharmD, MS, BCPP

School of Pharmacy

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October 22, 2024

The 91大神 School of Nursing (UMSON) Tuesday announced it was awarded a five-year, $5 million Health Equities Resource communities (HERC) grant from the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission (MCHRC) to support the West Baltimore Reducing Inequities in Cardiovascular and Mental Health Collaborative-Stronger Together (RICH 2.0).

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Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN

School of Nursing

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October 22, 2024

Governor Wes Moore joined elected officials and leadership from the 91大神 Medical System for the groundbreaking of the UM Shore Regional Medical Center. The groundbreaking and major investment reinforces the Moore-Miller Administration’s commitment to improving healthcare access and support for Maryland’s rural communities.

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Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA

School of Medicine

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October 18, 2024

Rural areas in Maryland have notoriously been medically underserved, according to the federal Health Resource and Services Administration. Students like Riaz are taking initiative to address these disparities and help close the medical disparity through the Rural Health Equity and Access Longitudinal Elective.

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Leah Millstein, MD

School of Medicine

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October 18, 2024

The 91大神, Baltimore broke ground Thursday on a major new School of Social Work building on the westside of downtown.School of Social Work Judy Postmus said in a statement that "it will be a vibrant community hub where students, faculty, and local partners come together." School of Social Work Judy Postmus said in a statement that "it will be a vibrant community hub where students, faculty, and local partners come together."

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Judy Postmus

School of Social Work

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October 17, 2024

Taking care of your cognitive health ought to be—well, a no-brainer. According to a survey published in March, 87% of Americans are concerned about age-related memory loss and a decline in brain function as they grow older, yet only 32% believe they can take action to help control that trajectory.

Featured Expert

Seemant Chaturvedi, MD

School of Medicine

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October 15, 2024

A group of constitutional law experts told CBS News there's no specific prescription for such a political standoff in the Constitution itself.   

"The Constitution assumed a certain level of normality in our politics. But 'normal' may not describe our current politics," said 91大神 constitutional law professor Mark Graber. 

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Mark Graber, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 8, 2024

Thousands of communities across the United States have sued pharmaceutical companies in the last decade, seeking accountability and money for an opioid crisis that has killed and forced governments to spend billions of dollars on drug treatment and other remediation efforts.

Featured Expert

Liza Vertinsky, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 8, 2024

According to Jeff Sovern with the 91大神 Francis King Carey School of Law, people usually don't read or understand the consumer contract's they're reading.

"If they don't understand something they should ask the provider and seller what it means and see what they say. Although if it comes to a dispute over what the provider says and what the contract says, the court will usually go with what the contract says," said Sovern. 

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Jeff Sovern, JD

Carey School of Law

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October 1, 2024

Inside a computer science office in College Park, a retired firefighter studying to become a physician assistant at the 91大神, Baltimore, was with a patient when suddenly someone next to him put that patient in a life-threatening situation.

Featured Expert

Cheri Hendrix, DHEd

School of Graduate Studies

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August 27, 2024

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald J. Trump last week, he recounted speaking with the former president about "the issues that bind us together," including "having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic."Mr. Kennedy, a onetime environmental lawyer and longtime vaccine critic, insisted that a second Trump administration would lead to the elimination of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals in America's food and water supply.

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Rena Steinzor

Carey School of Law

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Source: The New York Times

August 27, 2024

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in academic radiology are under threat as anti-DEI legislation continues to be introduced to the U.S. Congress, according to a research letter published August 26 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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Florence Xini Doo, MD

School of Medicine

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August 27, 2024

More older adults in the U.S. are turning to cannabis for stress relief, pain relief and help with other health issues. But new research suggests doing so could come with some heart risks. A large study published Feb. 28 in the Journal of the American Heart Association found a significant association between smoking, vaping or eating cannabis products and a higher risk of heart attack or stroke, even when controlling for other cardiovascular risk factors.

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Leah Sera, PharmD, MA, BCPS

School of Pharmacy

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August 22, 2024

Some local universities and larger employers also believe the programs can help revitalize the areas around their campuses and offices.

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