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Bird flu is infecting cats, cows and chickens, but no Marylanders yet
Bird flu has been found on the Eastern Shore, so how big a threat is it to chickens and humans?
The USDA is testing the milk supply since dairy herds have become infected with H5N1 strain of avian influenza, but so far have not found live virus in pasteurized products.
Why do we drop New Year’s resolutions? Blame your brain
New research from Johns Hopkins suggests people with naturally lower brain chemicals called dopamine find exercise more burdensome and may lose motivation faster.
Under Armour Sponsored Runner Willy Fink wins the Baltimore Marathon during the Baltimore Running Festival on October 19th, 2024 in Baltimore, MD. Eric Thompson for The Baltimore Banner.
University of Maryland merges engineering and medicine to turn ideas into companies
A new center in the Baltimore biopark will help develop and commercialize technology that officials say will save and improve people’s lives.
The new 4MLK building is located in the University of Maryland BioPark.
PHA Healthcare ordered to ‘cease and desist’ after Banner investigation
PHA Healthcare, a drug addiction treatment provider that enrolls hundreds of Medicaid patients in Maryland each year, has been ordered by the state health department to stop providing services to patients.
An apartment complex in West Baltimore that housed PHA Healthcare patients, photographed on Friday, January 10 2025
Your dog have cancer? These Hopkins grads have a cool way to treat it
A new tool, created by a pair of Johns Hopkins bioengineering students, is the first to use carbon dioxide to freeze tumors off dogs.
Dr. Salifou Bishop, left, uses cryotherapy to remove a tumor from a patient at Loving Pet Care Hospital in Baltimore, Md., on Thursday, January 2, 2024. He is joined by Clarisse Hu, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder at Kubanda, center, and Katie Ogg, clinical engineer for Kubanda,
Maryland extends pause on some new addiction, mental health programs to tackle Medicaid fraud
The moratorium, first announced in June, followed explosive growth of new providers, some of whom were described by officials as unscrupulous.
The Maryland Department of Health is located in the Herbert R. O'Conor State Office Building at 201 W. Preston Street in Baltimore.
They entered treatment. Drugs, overdoses and deaths followed.
Baltimore addiction programs draw patients with free housing while collecting millions. Some say one program—PHA Healthcare—offered little help.
Amanda Vlakos was found dead of an overdose in September while enrolled in PHA Healthcare, a recovery program that offered free housing.
Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO unites people ... against insurance companies
The fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has focused attention on the anger and frustrations of people around the country and in Maryland.
A sign reading "Deny, Defend, Depose, Health Care 4 All" hangs on an overpass on I-83 on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024.
What we know about Luigi Mangione’s back injury, surgery
Despite being in pain, Luigi Mangione did not complain often and was apparently not on any pain medication, a friend said.
A screenshot of the Twitter/X account believed to be associated with Luigi Mangione.
Mold is everywhere. Maryland may try to do something about it.
State officials could set a threshold for when mold should be considered hazardous or mandate a time frame for remediation. But without more research, Maryland’s rules likely won’t go far enough.
Faresha Sim poses for a portrait in her apartment in the Avalon on April 20, 2024. She wears a mask and gloves the majority of the time because of mold.
Think you have mold at home? Here’s when to call in the professionals.
Here are some frequently asked questions that could help determine when your mold problem is more than just a nuisance.
Rachel Oslund, a home inspector, demonstrates how she uses a sticky test strip to collect potential mold spores from a window sill for further testing in a lab.
What is Legionella, the bacteria found in Baltimore office buildings?
The bacteria Legionella can be hard to pinpoint and harder to eradicate.
An illustration of the Legionella bacteria, which can cause Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever.
New technology helps people get their voices back. Marylanders are among the first to use it.
The next iteration could use AI to mimic the patient’s real voice.
Ben Watson, who lost the ability to speak when he had surgery to remove a cancerous mass on his vocal cords, became one of several patients at Greater Baltimore Medical Center fitted with AVA Voice, a new device that is letting him speak more normally.
Extortion trial could expose details about risky organ transplants at UMMS
Medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder’s extortion trial spotlights the underlying situation at UMMS that he was trying to expose.
A criminal extortion case against former top lawyer Stephen L. Snyder is also spotlighting problems at the University of Maryland Medical System.
Maryland abortion amendment passes, protecting against future restrictions
Voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot measure to solidify reproductive rights in Maryland’s constitution.
“We’re Voting Yes” signs in support of reproductive rights.
The CDC is pushing a vaccine for pneumonia — just not for the kind infecting kids
The pneumonia vaccine is now recommended for those age 50 and older, down from age 65.
FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. As Americans head into the late 2022 holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections.
Listeria, again? This time it’s in mushrooms
Enoki mushrooms are the latest food potentially contaminated with listeria, which can cause a deadly infection.
From an FDA release: Enoki King Mushroom Farm of Ventura, CA is recalling lot 4877 of its 5.3-ounce (150g) packages of Enoki Mushroom (Product of USA) because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
These kids have never done drugs. They’re still being treated for addiction.
Opioids have devastated not just individuals in the rural Cecil County, but impacted children so heavily that officials are now treating addiction as a family affair.
Victoria Richardson plays with her daughter Khalani, 1, and  son Zakari, 3, who both live with her.
Maryland law closes a loophole in abortion care, attorney general says
Maryland is trying to eliminate an obscure rule that stopped Medicaid from paying for certain patients’ abortions.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has weighed in on the Abortion Care Access Act of 2022.
Maryland is a safe haven for abortion care — with one obscure exception
Women who qualified for Medicaid because they are pregnant may have to foot the bill for an abortion.
One of the 3 procedure rooms at Partners in Abortion Care, a women-owned and operated abortion clinic providing abortions in all trimesters, based in College Park, Maryland.
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