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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.
Photo collage of old hospital building on left and young Black female medical student on right, both obscured by chain link fence.
Morgan State’s plan to train more Black doctors is years behind schedule
Construction hasn't started, funding appears uncertain and it'll be at least another two years before students enroll.
Archbishop William Lori is shown in his conference room in September 2023.
8 Catholic churches got a reprieve from the archdiocese. 3 weren’t so lucky.
The blueprint released Wednesday closely tracks the draft plan that the archdiocese put out in April, reducing the number of parishes — or Catholic communities — from 61 to 23. The number of actual churches would shrink from 59 to 30. But Archbishop William Lori did spare eight churches initially, while delivering some late bad news to others.
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.
Maryland nursing home residents allege years of neglect. Now they’re suing the state.
About 80% of Maryland’s nursing homes have not had annual inspections, and fewer than half of complaints have been investigated, the lawsuit alleges.
Senate Candidate Angela Alsobrooks speaks after the race was called in her favor at her election night party on 5/14/24 in Greenbelt, MD.
Alsobrooks wins Democratic Senate primary; will face Hogan in the fall
Angela Alsobrooks won the Democratic primary for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday night and will face off against Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan in the general election.
Baltimore County Detention Center located in Towson, MD.
People with severe mental illness are languishing in jail. Now the state has to pay
A crush of court orders and the lack of psychiatric hospital bed space have led to a record-high waitlist for jail transfers.
Hospital and state officials have to figure out how to find the patients owed refunds without violating the privacy laws that protect their health and income data.
Maryland hospitals took money from poor patients. Why haven’t they paid them back?
Refunds are coming — as much as eight years after the first patients paid their bills.
Cities like Baltimore have often planted more pollen-making male trees than female trees, contributing to the abundant yellow dust.
Bad allergies? Blame botanical sexism and Baltimore sidewalks
Urban planners have often favored male trees that make pollen over female trees that make seeds, contributing to the abundance of sneeze-inducing yellow stuff.
Mosquito colonies in the insectary at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are housed in clear boxes in a climate-controlled room and fed sugar to sustain them.
Johns Hopkins breeds millions of mosquitoes — to stop them from killing you
After the U.S. logged its first cases of malaria in decades, Johns Hopkins mosquito research takes on new urgency.
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