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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.
It’s germ season. But getting flu and COVID boosters for babies may take patience.
Getting children flu and COVID vaccines this fall may take patience, as pharmacists can't vaccinate babies and pediatricians don't all have doses yet.
Caucasian baby boy being vaccinated by a female pediatrician
A Hopkins doctor is using diabetes medicine to help Black women fight hair loss
A common drug used to treat diabetes may also help Black women with a type of alopecia, a Johns Hopkins scientist found.
Belinda Robinson participated in a Johns Hopkins Medicine study to see if a common diabetes drug could help her regrow hair after she was diagnosed with alopecia.
Syringes, hygiene products found among tide of medical waste on Maryland beaches
Medical waste and debris continued to wash up on beaches in Maryland, and officials say they will prohibit swimming as they investigate.
More medical waste has washed up on shore in Ocean City, as well as on Assateague Island.
Johns Hopkins violated Americans with Disabilities Act during pandemic, federal complaint says
Johns Hopkins Health System violated the Americans with Disabilities Act during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore will get an opioid treatment center for kids. Montgomery County will pay.
Settlement money from opioid manufacturers will fund Maryland’s first inpatient addiction treatment center for kids.
Addiction treatment centers like the one coming to Baltimore use medications like buprenorphine, along with counseling and other services, to treat opioid use disorders.
Baltimore faces an ‘STI emergency’
Massive cuts to HIV funding means some Baltimore programs have reduced services aimed at ensuring low-income people get tested, treated and maintain their treatment.
7/12/22—Exterior of the Druid Sexual Health Clinic on W. North Ave.
Emergent gets go-ahead for mpox vaccine, but it won’t be made in Baltimore
Gaithersburg-based Emergent BioSolutions got approval to make more smallpox vaccine for use against mpox, but it won’t be produced in Baltimore.
Emergent Bio Solutions was given federal approval to use its smallpox vaccine against mpox.
Should you get another COVID-19 booster? In Maryland, yes.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved two new versions of the coronavirus vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccines are advertised at pharmacies across the region, but they're in short supply.
Maryland found ‘forever chemicals’ in school water fountains. Now what?
Maryland officials found the insidious chemicals in water at 34 schools.
Water fountains in public school(Photo by Shan Wallace/The Baltimore Banner)
Sinai Hospital’s effort to train more doctors gets a multimillion-dollar boost
The Baltimore hospital will use a $10 million gift to help pay tuition for medical students training there.
Students training at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore will have some of their tuition covered, thanks to a philanthropic gift. The hospital is encouraging them to train to become primary care doctors and practice in the city.
Group seeks to defy national trend on abortion votes by appealing to parents’ rights
Maryland has no requirement parents give consent for their children under age 18 to have an abortion. The law says parents need to be notified, but doctors can waive the requirement.
Supporters of Health Not Harm Maryland rally in Annapolis on Thursday. The group is opposing a question on the fall ballot that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.
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.
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.
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