Newswise Focus Channel: Hidden - Maryland

Cover crop tour of Maryland's eastern shore

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:00:08 EST

Local media are invited for November 10th tour highlighting cover crops on Maryland's beautiful Chesapeake Bay Eastern Shore region

GW Experts Available to Discuss Maryland Primaries

George Washington University — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:05:51 EST

University of Maryland Children's Hospital Plans Significant Enhancements to Pediatric Emergency Department to Meet Escalating Youth Mental Health Needs

University of Maryland Medical Center — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:20:02 EST

University of Maryland Children's Hospital Continues to Add or Enhance Existing Services for Children and their Families in Psychiatric Crisis.

University of Maryland Children's Hospital Named a "Best Children's Hospital" for Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery by U.S. News & World Report for 2022

University of Maryland Medical Center — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:45:56 EST

The University of Maryland Children's Hospital is named a "Best Children's Hospital" for Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery by U.S. News & World, which also lauded UMCH as the #2 children's hospital in Maryland and one of the top 15 in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Access to Quality Anesthesia Care Increased for Maryland Patients

American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:05:57 EST

Maryland patients now have increased access to safe, affordable care with the enacting of HB55. The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) applauds the new law, as it expands the scope of practice for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), granting them the authority to order and prescribe medications, including controlled substances.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy to Deliver Graduation Address to the University of Maryland School of Medicine's 213th Graduating Class

University of Maryland School of Medicine — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:30:12 EST

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, announced today that Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, will deliver the keynote address for this year's graduating class.

Groundbreaking for Major Expansion of University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Maryland Medical Center — Fri, 13 May 2022 22:00:41 EST

The University of Maryland Medical Center celebrates the groundbreaking of a nine-story patient care tower - the Roslyn and Leonard Stoler Center for Advanced Medicine - that will become the new home of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. The $219 million building will enable the cancer center to provide the most technologically advanced, integrated care to cancer patients throughout Maryland and the region well into the future

Mercy Medical Center Once Again Ranked Among "America's Best MidSize Employers" by FORBES

Mercy Medical Center — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:20:08 EST

Mercy Medical Center has been ranked as one of the top 500 midsize employers (1,000-5,000 employees) in the United States for 2022 by Forbes magazine, a leading national business publication.

Maryland Autism Rates Among 8-Year-Olds Up 6.5 Percent in New CDC Report

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:35:42 EST

New CDC data, collected by researchers at the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the Bloomberg School, finds an increase in autism prevalence in five Maryland counties based in 2018 data.

University of Maryland Medicine Partners with Vibrent Health to Embark on Landmark Precision Health Research Study

University of Maryland School of Medicine — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:25:16 EST

New Partnership Will Create Digital Infrastructure to Support Statewide 'All of Maryland' Study to Learn More About How Genes and Other Factors Affect Health

Eviction Crisis: Maryland Carey Law Heeds Attorney General's Call to Assist At-Risk Renters

University of Maryland, Baltimore — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:05:02 EST

LifeBridge Health to Connect Consumers and Patients to Care through Higi

LifeBridge Health — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:20:55 EST

Health system will leverage the Higi platform and network to build community ties, understand community health needs and provide smart digital connections to care

FAA Extends Funding for NEXTOR III Aviation Operations Research Consortium

University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:05:31 EST

The FAA has extended funding for the Maryland Smith-supported consortium that has developed decision support tools, operational and system concepts, and policymaking tools that benefit the FAA, the airline industry and the flying public.

Fentanyl Tops List of Drugs Found in Baltimore Overdose Patients

University of Maryland Medical Center — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:00:00 EST

Fentanyl is not typically part of hospital tests for illicit drug use, however, a new University of Maryland study found after expanding testing that fentanyl, linked to most fatal overdoses in Maryland, tops the list of drugs detected in overdose patients at two Baltimore hospital ERs. The researchers suggest addition of fentanyl to routine drug tests.

New Report on Enforcement of Gun Laws in Baltimore Finds More Focused Approached Could Reduce Violence, Improve Community Relationships with City Police

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:00:05 EST

A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that broad "stop-and-search" practices used for many years by Baltimore police to look for illegally possessed guns have minimal, if any, impact on gun violence. These practices also result in mental and physical harm to those who are unjustifiably searched and serve to undermine community trust in police. The researchers also found that residents of communities most impacted by gun violence in Baltimore want more focused and accountable law enforcement to reduce gun violence.

Expert on the Toll of Child Abuse on Victims

LifeBridge Health — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:15:28 EST

Mathematics of Sea Slug Movement Points to Future Robots

American Physical Society (APS) — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:30:00 EST

Mathematician Shankar Venkataramani's research group recently discovered a lot of new, powerful geometries involved in frilly surfaces, which he will describe at the 2019 APS March Meeting. For mathematicians, frilly is plain language for an inflected nonsmooth surface -- one that changes the direction in which it bends, such as with kale or coral. Venkataramani's group developed the mathematics to describe these surfaces, and the combination of new geometry insights and age-old slugs might just be the right combination for a new generation of flexible, energy-efficient soft-bodied robots.

New Cell-Sized Micro Robots Might Make Incredible Journeys

American Physical Society (APS) — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:30:00 EST

Researchers have created tiny functional, remote-powered, walking robots, developing a multistep nanofabrication technique that turns a 4-inch specialized silicon wafer into a million microscopic robots in just weeks. Each one of a robot's four legs is just under 100-atoms-thick, but powered by laser light hitting the robots' solar panels, they propel the tiny robots. The researchers are now working on smart versions of the robots that could potentially make incredible journeys in the human body.

New Report on Industrial Physics and its Role in the US Economy

American Physical Society (APS) — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:30:00 EST

A new APS report, "The Impact of Industrial Physics on the U.S. Economy," shows the significant role of physics, which contributed an estimated $2.3 trillion (12.6 percent of U.S. GDP) in 2016 alone. Industrial physics encompasses the application of physics knowledge and principles to the design and manufacture of products and services. Many people working within this field have job titles other than physicist, so this report includes all aspects of industrial physics contributions.

New Surprises from Jupiter and Saturn

American Physical Society (APS) — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:30:00 EST

The latest data from the giant planets has sent researchers back to the drawing board. Cassini orbited Saturn for 13 years before its dramatic final dive into the planet's interior, while Juno has been orbiting Jupiter for two and a half years; the data collected has been "invaluable but also confounding," said David Stevenson from Caltech, who will present an update of both missions at the 2019 APS March Meeting in Boston. Innovative design that protected the instruments from fierce radiation and powered the mission on solar energy alone has reaped plenty of surprises.