Health & Wellness

Daschle, Obama's pick to lead on health care, gets hearing

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whom President-elect Barack Obama has tapped to lead his health care reform initiative, faced few challenges on Capitol Hill at a confirmation hearing before a key Senate committee today.

Ask the Expert

Health professionals in Maryland answer questions related to their field

The 'bupe' fix
Promoted by the U.S. as a treatment for opiate addiction, buprenorphine has become one more item for sale in the drug market.

AIDS in Baltimore
Reporter Jonathan Bor and photographer Kim Hairston spent over a year working on this two-part series exploring the roots of the HIV epidemic in Baltimore.

The Sun investigates the potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug known as Recombinant Activated Factor VII.

1918 influenza pandemic
Nearly a century later, the people who lived through it and the victims' families still recall their experiences with the flu.

If I die
The Sun received permission from R.J. Voigt, his mother, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center to be present during the last four weeks of R.J.'s life, except, at his mother's request, his death.