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Boar's Head meats are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024 in San Rafael, California. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, Boar's Head has expanded its recall of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products to nearly 7 million additional pounds due to a listeria outbreak.
What caused the listeria outbreak? A Baltimore grocery store held the answer.
As people fell sick, scientists from Maryland discovered listeria was the cause of a nationwide outbreak by testing Boar’s Head deli meat at a Baltimore grocery store.
Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga after being sworn in as health commissioner by Mayor Brandon Scott at Baltimore City Hall, March 20, 2024.
Fired Baltimore health commissioner under criminal investigation
Dr. Emenuga is the subject of a criminal investigation that focuses, at least in part, on work she did at a health care provider while also serving as Baltimore’s health commissioner.
Crowds and long lines form inside BWI after a global tech outage grounded all flights on Friday, July 19, 2024.
Global outage dinged BWI, Maryland hospitals, government and courts
Marylanders awoke Friday to widespread reports of a global technology outage disrupting transportation, courts, tolls, some of the state’s hospital systems and local governments.
COVID-19 vaccines are advertised at pharmacies across the region, but they're in short supply.
Is COVID rising in Maryland? Here’s what we know
The limited data suggests COVID-19 is spreading in Maryland during this crazy-hot summer.
Kevin Lindamood, president and CEO of Healthcare for the Homeless, speaks at a news conference inside Baltimore City Hall. City leaders announced funding to continue and expand a pilot program providing permanent housing for nearly 300 city residents.
How an unusual experiment helped Baltimore house nearly 300 families and counting
Mayor Brandon Scott and other officials announced permanent funding for a program that helps formerly unhoused people stay in their homes.
During Maryland’s COVID-19 public health emergency, Medicaid coverage was extended to all Marylanders already enrolled. With the emergency coverage now ending, Maryland is beginning the process of re-enrolling all 1.8 million Medicaid beneficiaries. Organizations like Health Care for the Homeless help patients through the process of re-enrolling in Medicaid, which can include creating email addresses, locating necessary paperwork to enroll, and selecting insurance.
Over 1.6M people in Maryland enrolled in Medicaid, more than before COVID
The state finished a yearlong process of determining who should stay on Medicaid, and ended with fewer from a year ago but more than pre-COVID.
University of Maryland doctors will move into a space that was left empty when Target left Mondawmin Mall.
University of Maryland doctors to move into former Target space at Mondawmin in 2025
University of Maryland Faculty Physicians plans to open a doctors’ office at Mondawmin Mall, aiming to fulfill a community need.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Johns Hopkins to offer free medical school tuition from $1 billion Bloomberg Philanthropies grant
Bloomberg Philanthropies grants Johns Hopkins $1 billion to cover the cost of medical school.
Members of a nurses union rally to address staffing issues outside Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Catonsville on June 20, 2024.
Paper, fax machines, stress. Inside cyberattacks on hospitals.
Saint Agnes Hospital was just the latest to face a cyberattack, which are increasingly focused on health care facilities. Workers want more attention to their stress.
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Paper, fax machines, stress. Inside cyberattacks on hospitals
Members of a nurses union rally to address staffing issues outside Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Catonsville on June 20, 2024.
Paper, fax machines, stress. Inside cyberattacks on hospitals
Saint Agnes Hospital was just the latest to face a cyberattack, which are increasingly focused on health care facilities. Workers want more attention to their stress.
The Maryland Department of Health offices in Baltimore.
Maryland has tons of new mental health care providers. Are they for real?
For all the new providers, relatively few new patients are being served.
A close-up of some of Loudy Puff Boyz and Gurlz Klub's strains of cannabis plants.
Smoking in the name of science: What cannabis research could tell us next year
“The smoke box” at the Cannabis Science Lab in Baltimore is about as fancy as its nickname, but it’s in one of the most advanced marijuana research labs in the country.
Collage of photograph of elderly woman supporting herself with walker flanked by figures that have been cut out of the photograph. Red scribbles fill the background behind the photo and a red spray obscures the elderly woman's face.
Following major lawsuit, state official in charge of nursing home inspections to retire
The longtime head of the state office responsible for nursing home inspections will retire, officials announced about a month after a major lawsuit against the agency.
Emergent BioSolutions will sell its remaining plant in Baltimore after a tumultuous time that began with botched COVID vaccines.
Emergent to exit Baltimore after years of tumult stemming from botched COVID-19 vaccine
Emergent BioSolutions, known for botching millions of doses of COVID vaccine, will exit Baltimore entirely with sale of another plant.
Venus White, left, is a lung cancer survivor who was scanned early enough to be treated. Dr. Taofeek Owonikoko, right, is the executive director of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, where White was treated and is now cancer-free.
Marylanders aren’t getting screened for the deadliest cancer
Many patients don’t even know about the annual screening, which can save lives when it catches the disease early.
Lisa Filer and Jon Filer left sunflowers and a letter to their son Aidan Filer outside of Starlight Liquors in Baltimore, MD on July 20, 2023. Filer passed away from a fentanyl overdose in this spot while inside of his vehicle three years prior.
Baltimore opted out of Maryland’s opioid settlement. Now it’s getting $45 million.
Baltimore has settled with pharmaceutical company Allergan for $45 million, a big win compared to the amount the city would have received had it joined Maryland in a similar agreement.
Hospital beds in an emergency room.
Hospitals are crowded. One sued a patient for trespassing to empty a bed.
The 83-year-old patient was stable enough to leave MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. When he refused, the hospital sued.
Linda Flores is a community health worker through Latino Health Initiative.
Community health workers were essential during COVID. Now, they’re asking for help.
There is a move afoot to help expand and pay for a what been a largely hidden workforce in Maryland of community health workers, who help marginalized people get health care and other services though they often go without.
A billboard spreading awareness about the dangers of fentanyl usage seen near Mondawmin Mall on Feb. 7, 2024.
A striking number of people say they know someone who overdosed
One-third of U.S. adults know someone who has overdosed and died, a Johns Hopkins survey found.
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