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Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Ryan E. Dales, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, with illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and with wire fraud,
Date Published: Saturday 28 January 2023
Article Description: Some say the US Food and Drug Administration’s proposal to update COVID-19 vaccines each year, similar to influenza jabs, could boost uptake.
Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: In the weeks following the winter holiday season, reported cases of COVID-19 in Frederick County and Maryland remain far lower than the dramatic spike recorded in January of 2022. "That rate of increase [this year] did not match what we saw last year ...
Date Published: Saturday 28 January 2023
Article Description: LifeBridge Health launched a major recruitment campaign for experienced nurses to help bridge a gap in staffing.
Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: They wanted to study the gut microbiome of patients admitted to the ICU to see if it could help them understand why some patients recover and do well after discharge from the hospital, and others continue to suffer from debilitating complications.
Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: Researchers used a machine-learning (ML)-based model to identify non-human CoVs (coronaviruses) that might cause human infections.
Date Published: Saturday 28 January 2023
Article Description: The monovalent COVID vaccines should be phased out and all people should receive the updated bivalent COVID vaccines, the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) said in a unanimous vote on Thursday.
Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: Cardiovascular-related deaths increased dramatically in 2020, marking the largest single-year increase since 2015 and surpassing the previous record from 2003, according to the 2023 Statistical Update from the American Heart Association.
Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby allowed all six of Marilyn Mosby’s criminal defense lawyers to withdraw from her perjury and mortgage fraud case, issuing her ruling Friday morning.
Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: The federal perjury case against Baltimore’s former top prosecutor likely faces further delays now that a judge has allowed her entire defense team to quit
Date Published: Saturday 28 January 2023
Article Description: A new study has been published that links the increase in heart attacks amongst adults between the ages of 25 and 44 to COVID-19.
Date Published: Friday 27 January 2023
Article Description: The FDA's vaccine advisors unanimously backed the agency's proposal to harmonize COVID-19 primary and booster vaccines to contain a single bivalent composition with components targeting BA.4/5 and the original SARS-CoV-2 strain.
Date Published: Saturday 28 January 2023
Article Description: A panel of experts on Thursday agreed that the bivalent COVID-19 vaccines should be used as both initial and booster shots, phasing out the original vaccines.