World & Nation
The University of Maryland says the child’s cadaver is part of its historic collection.
Feb. 4, 2007
Obituaries
In 1975, Klee confirmed reports that the University of Maryland had been involved in secret research in which soldiers were given the hallucinogenic drug in the 1950s.
March 8, 2013
Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a pig heart transplant have found the organ harbored an animal virus.
May 6, 2022
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has abandoned the use of live pigs to train students, joining all but one other U.S. medical school in forgoing a practice that’s long been criticized by animal rights activists who consider it unnecessary in the age of computer simulation.
May 21, 2016
Doctors say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in the human body without immediate rejection.
March 9, 2022
Technology and the Internet
‘Jeopardy!’s’ famous Watson computer -- maybe make that Dr. Watson
Feb. 22, 2011
U.S. doctors have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life — a first for medical science.
Jan. 10, 2022
Sports
The University of Maryland football team’s strength and conditioning coach has resigned, and the school acknowledged “mistakes were made” in the treatment of 19-year-old Jordan McNair, who collapsed on a practice field and subsequently died.
Aug. 14, 2018
President Lincoln might have survived if today’s medical technology had existed when he was shot in 1865, but the question is whether he would have recovered enough to return to office, a doctor and a historian said at an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference on the deaths of historic figures.
May 19, 2007
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Nov. 20, 2002