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Advocates estimate that about 100 children a year get stuck in Maryland hospitals for weeks or months on end.

The Justice Department alleges two Lanham-based health care companies filed for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement when they were not eligible for such payments.

But more than 200 households in Baltimore could lose that support if funding pledged by hospitals comes to an end in June and no other funding source is secured.

The illness is highly infectious and making its way through daycares, according to health experts such as Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

One pediatric infectious disease specialist with the University of Maryland says that norovirus, commonly known as the stomach flu, is on the rise and low immunity may cause it to spread fast.

The respiratory disease known as RSV is spreading among children and is responsible for 57% for new hospitalizations across Maryland, officials say.

The contract will allow hundreds of thousands of Marylanders to stay in-network with Hopkins.

The 230-acre campus would be a health care hub for five counties on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

The Maryland Department of Health removed the agenda item from the Board of Public Works agenda.

State employees claim there's not enough security guards on the job.