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Air quality alert in Baltimore: What you need to know
The Baltimore area is under a code red air quality warning. Here’s how to stay safe.
A person runs through Federal Hill Park on Thursday morning, June 8, 2023. Baltimore's air quality remains at dangerous levels due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.
Why can’t I get my antibiotic or cancer drugs? Hopkins experts outline the shortages and the remedies
A massive drug shortage has left people calling around pharmacies to get prescription filled, settling for half dosages or going without needed medications.
Persistent stigma and misunderstanding of ADHD may be contributing to the medication shortage.
Highly contagious measles reported in Maryland, first time in years
Measles is particularly concerning because the virus can hang in the air for two hours after someone sneezes or coughs.
Public health officials have grown concerned since the start of the coronavirus pandemic that some children have fallen behind on routine vaccinations, like those that prevent measles.
Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital to get new leadership from Phoenix health system
Amy Shlossman takes over as president and chief operating officer of Sinai Hospital in North Baltimore this summer.
Sinai Hospital in North Baltimore.
Who’s behind Baltimore’s ‘GONORRHEA ALERT’ billboard?
A giant billboard off I-83 in Baltimore aims to push the public to be tested for gonorrhea and other STIs that have been on the rise.
Cases of gonorrhea and other STIs have been rising, so a downtown Baltimore clinic run by AIDS Healthcare Foundation put up a giant in-your-face billboard off I-83 on th 28th Street exit.
VIPs descend on Pimlico as anticipation builds for Preakness
This was the first trip to Preakness for Tiffani and David Freeman, Baltimore natives who often drove past but never set foot in Pimlico before.
Odell Beckham, Jr., Gayle King, Dawn Flythe Moore, Kevin Liles, CEO of 300 Entertainment; and Belinda Stronach, Stronach chairwoman.
MedStar doctor will keep a watchful eye on Preakness jockeys
Dr. Kelly Ryan and her team, as well as the emergency medical staff, are making sure the jockeys are ready to ride, and if they’re injured, that they get prompt attention.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - MAY 18: A jockey is seen during a training session ahead of the 148th Running of the Preakness Stakes  at Pimlico Race Course on May 18, 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Laurel’s aging former hospital gets a gleaming replacement June 4
Success of the new University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center will hinge on luring back Prince George’s residents who now get their hospital and outpatient services in other counties.
The exterior of the new University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center seen in Laurel on Monday, May 15.
Can the spread of cancer be stopped? These Hopkins scientists just got a boost in their efforts.
Hopkins officials announced Wednesday that scientists received a $35 million grant to accelerate their work to understand why and how cancer spreads, or metastasizes, and to do something about it.
Research assistant Virangika Wimalasena dissects a cancer tumor for a human breast to grow the cultured cell or research.  Dr. Andrew Ewald and fellow scientists at Johns Hopkins received a $35 million grant from researcher, philanthropist and race car driver Theodore Giovanis. Hopkins Medicine will study the biological roots of the most fatal aspect of cancer: how it metastasizes, or spreads, through the body.
What killed George Washington? A U. of Maryland medical school expert makes a diagnosis
Dr. Rodney J. Taylor offered a more satisfying answer than the vague, and somewhat forgettable, “sore throat.”
Dr. Rodney J. Taylor, chair of the department of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, presented a new diagnosis for the illness that killed George Washington.
As the COVID-19 emergency ends, a new subvariant is emerging. Does it matter?
Exactly how many people have it and where, no one knows. Real-time data is becoming scarce.
A mask is seen on the ground at John F.  Kennedy Airport.
The chatbot will see you soon: Hopkins study finds AI answers patient questions better than doctors
New research shows the software’s responses may be smarter and have a better bedside manner.
Photo collage of patient in medical gown sitting on exam table, reading chat bubbles that partially obscure white doctor’s coats and stethoscopes hung on the wall.
A dangerous animal sedative in street drugs is spreading beyond Maryland. It’s not the only new threat.
Xylazine, an animal sedative that slows breathing and causes hard-to-treat skin ulcers, was found in 80% of Maryland drug samples in a recent study.
Xylazine is the newest drug to complicate the ever changing illegal drug landscape, in Columbia, Md., April 17, 2023.
Abusive priests were once seen as moral failures. Now they get psychiatric treatment.
For decades, priests accused of abuse were sent for treatment that was ineffective or not medically based, and then returned to service, often in different states. Many went on to reoffend.
The exterior of the Archdiocese of Baltimore building as seen on Monday, March 13.
A dozen sexually abusive priests served at St. Mark’s. It may not be a coincidence.
Five priests are known to have abused children while serving at St. Mark. Another seven abused children before or after they served at the Catonsville parish.
A buildings on St. Mark Parish property, in Catonsville, Tuesday, April 11, 2023.
Fungi help make pinot and penicillin. But scientists say a new one is killing people.
A fungus called Candida auris is spreading rapidly around Maryland and the country, concerning public health officials. But it’s not an immediate threat to people outside hospitals and long-term care facilities.
Candida Auris Cells.  3D Render
Struggling to make health care appointments in Maryland? You’re not alone
Securing an appointment with health providers in Maryland has become a monumental task for patients, who say they have hit barrier after barrier in the search for care.
Alina Anthony, left, checks Braziah Murphy’s blood pressure at the Healthcare in the Library station inside the Enoch Pratt Library’s central branch on Friday, March 10. Anthony is a second semester nursing student at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
An investigation of the Baltimore archdiocese will have names redacted. That’s happened across the U.S.
There’s court battle over whether to permanently redact the names of some in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who are accused of committing or enabling abuse. Here’s how similar situations played out elsewhere.
The exterior of the Archdiocese of Baltimore building as seen on Monday, March 13.
New Roy McGrath book claims to spill Annapolis secrets. We got a sneak peek at two chapters.
A book about former state official — and fugitive — Roy McGrath goes on sale Wednesday. Here’s what The Banner learned from previewing two chapters.
Roy McGrath speaks during a coronavirus press conference at the Maryland State House on April 15, 2020. McGrath, who eventually became Gov. Larry Hogan's chief of staff, is facing state and federal criminal charges related to a "severance" payment he received from the Maryland Environmental Service when he left to join Hogan's office.
Data, dots and devotees made the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 map huge. Now it’s done.
Excluding NORAD’s Christmas Eve Santa tracker, there may not be a world map viewed so many times as the one Johns Hopkins University engineers created to keep tabs on COVID-19.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - MARCH 28: A general view of The Johns Hopkins University on March 28, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. The school is shut down due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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