Maryland (US), Feb 1 : Researchers at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) have warned that rural areas of America will continue to be the bases for launching of terror strikes due to the involvement of domestic actors.

In a report that they have prepared, they said that nearly a third of all terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2008 occurred in just five metropolitan U. S. counties, and that continue to occur in rural areas, spurred on by domestic actors.

College Park (Maryland, US), Dec. 3 : Nearly two-thirds of Israeli Jews, 64 percent, favor establishing a nuclear free zone in the Middle East.

According to new University of Maryland poll, pressure for such a nuclear free zone has grown with the potential for Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon, possibly leading to a regional arms race.

Researchers involved in the joint project of the Anwar Sadat Chair at the University of Maryland and the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) also found that fewer than half, 43 percent, support an attack on Iran''s nuclear facilities.

Maryland (US), July 15 : The University of Maryland''s Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics has said that recent advances in computer science can be used by both the United States and India to neutralise terrorist attacks.

Bethesda (Maryland, US), May 2 (ANI): Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has boasted to a group of anti-abortion advocates that she had a chance to attend the White House Correspondents'' Dinner, but instead chose to spend her time with them.

"The pro-life cause or White House Correspondents'' Dinner? I choose life," Politico quoted Palin as telling a crowd of about 200 at a fundraiser for the anti-abortion advertising group Heroic Media.

Palin spoke for more than 45 minutes at a "Jews for Sarah" gathering at a hotel here, a rare public appearance outside the confines of her contributor slot on Fox News.

According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday, one out of six people in the United States below the age of 65 did not have health insurance cover in 2005 while 1 in 3 Hispanics were uninsured. The latest report has some of the most detailed estimates of health insurance figures in a state and race wise break up.  

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have cited two television commercials by Bayer Corp for Yaz birth control pills for giving a misleading impression of their benefits and downplaying the drugs risks. The F.D.A. has said that the ads incorrectly imply that the pills are approved for relieving premenstrual symptoms (PMS).  

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to Burlington-based Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings that it is violating the law by illegally marketing a blood test OvaSure to detect ovarian cancer.  Introduced in June, the test was looked upon with great hope as it claimed to detect ovarian cancer at an early, treatable stage; a claim some experts including the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists say is incorrect.

Lesser doses of anthrax vaccine give the same protection as higher doses. People who got the former kind of injection experienced less pain but the protection against the disease remained the same. Since anthrax can be used as a biological weapon, the U S military is getting the vaccine made by Emergent BioSolutions, Maryland.

The Food and Drug Administration said that an analysis of many studies on cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, have not shown any increase of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a condition also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Carrying victims of a traffic accident, a medical helicopter crashed in a suburban Washington park, killing four of the five people on board, in one of the deadliest accidents involving medical helicopters, since the State Police began these missions 40-years ago. 

Veteran pilot - Stephen Bunker, 59; flight paramedic - Mickey Lippy, 34; county emergency medical technician - Tanya Mallard, 39; and Ashley Younger - one of the traffic accident victims died in the crash that took place on Sunday. 

The US FDA has said that they are reviewing Amgen and Johnson & Johnson’s experimental blockbuster anemia drugs, which have been associated with higher death rates in a study involving stroke patients.

Researchers have said that U.S. children are three times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medications for conditions such as ADHD and bipolar disease ass compared to European children. This dramatic difference, the researchers feel could be explained by the differences in regulatory practices as well as cultural beliefs about the benefit of medication for emotional and behavioral problems.

The current Obama vs McCain Maryland Polls are indicating that the majority of Marylanders want Barack Obama to be the president of United States. The polls show that Obama is having a huge lead over John McCain, in the presidential race, in Maryland.

According to the MD opinion polls, Obama has been holding in the state since February, and he has well retained his lead in the current opinion polls, conducted by American Research Group, and Rasmussen Reports. Let’s check out what the current McCain vs Obama Maryland polls say.

Researchers have found that pregnant women who get their flu shots a month or more before delivery provide influenza protection to their babies during their first six months. The study, conducted in Bangladesh and led by Mark C. Steinhoff, MD, at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, has shown that flu vaccines can provide protection to both the mother as well as her baby.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) has called off the proposed study to examine a controversial type of treatment for autism voicing doubts about the procedure’s safety. The treatment called chelation is a therapy in which a man made amino acid called EDTA is added to the blood and it is used to treat heavy metal poisoning. This has been used as a form of alternative medical treatment for children with autism.