World & Nation
Until July, most mothers and their infants were sent home from Greater Baltimore Medical Center in less than 24 hours after routine deliveries because insurers balked at paying for longer stays.
Sept. 24, 1996
Walter Sondheim Jr., 98, the civic and business leader who championed Baltimore’s downtown renaissance and guided the city through the desegregation of its schools, died Thursday of pneumonia at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.
Feb. 19, 2007
Sports
Chuck Thompson, whose familiar radio voice painted the picture of Baltimore sports for more than half a century, has died.
March 7, 2005
Business
Richard D.
Feb. 13, 1989
Science & Medicine
Over a 16-year period in the last century, a German scientist named Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich took the body temperatures of more than 25,000 people, correlated the statistics and concluded that “normal” was precisely 98.6 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale.
Sept. 24, 1992
Treatment: Doctors await word on two studies that may reveal how this reported pain reliever works.
March 15, 1999
Former Maryland Rep. Parren J.
May 30, 2007
The $100-million donation will help establish a medical research center.
June 20, 2003
Archives
Hospitals and hospices are creating pastoral retreats, places where waters run, flowers bloom and stresses fall by the wayside.
May 17, 2004
As she entered midlife, Connie Koller was losing almost a week of every month to her abnormally heavy menstrual periods.
April 13, 1998