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STUDIO CITY, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 19:  Actor Lance Reddick visits 'The IMDb Show' on June 19, 2019 in Studio City, California. This episode of 'The IMDb Show' airs on July 18, 2019.
Lance Reddick’s cause of death is No. 1 killer of adults nationwide
The actor, famous for his roles in "The Wire" and "John Wick" franchise, died of heart disease.
Geraldine Long, a neighborhood resident, comes in to get her COVID booster. Baltimore City's continued effort towards combating COVID-19 includes a stationary mobile clinic that gives vaccine recievers incentives to keep up to date on their vaccines.  A mobile setup is shown here on February 10, 2023.
3 reasons Maryland is among states with the lowest COVID death rates
A new study shows Maryland had the fifth-lowest COVID death rates per capita. What did the state do right?
Hospital beds in an emergency room.
What kept Maryland hospitals afloat during COVID — and saved taxpayers millions
Maryland’s one-of-a-kind system for regulating hospital costs protected health care facilities from financial ruin during the pandemic. Meanwhile, it saved money and improved quality of care, according to a recent report.
A deer tick in a yard as a child is playing.
Spring is tick season. Here’s how to avoid Lyme disease.
Those living in Baltimore and surrounding regions are at high risk for Lyme disease transmission through tick bites. An expert from Johns Hopkins’ Lyme research center explains why and shares ways to avoid tick-borne illness.
Persistent stigma and misunderstanding of ADHD may be contributing to the medication shortage.
‘Not my problem’: Regulators and drug makers deflect blame in ADHD medication shortage
Persistent stigma and misunderstanding of ADHD may be contributing to an apparent lack of political will to resolve the shortage of medications to treat it.
Blaire Postman, a Baltimore city resident who suffers from ADHD, demonstrates at her home how she has to ration her medication due to the possible unaffordablility or unavailablility of her meds in Baltimore City, Md. on February  12, 2023.
People with ADHD can’t get their meds. The shortage is worsening.
Some call dozens of pharmacies, pay hundreds of dollars or ration their medicine to avoid a decline in functioning at school or work.
An ambulance leaves the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Detective police say was shot during Cockeysville manhunt released from Shock Trauma
Baltimore County Detective Jonathan Chih sustained critical injuries when police say he was shot by David Emory Linthicum on Feb. 9, on the second day of manhunt for the gunman.
Allan Doctor, M.D. is a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Blood Oxygen Transport and Hemostasis.
Many shooting victims bleed out. Baltimore researchers want to improve their chances.
Physician-scientists at University of Maryland School of Medicine are testing radically different ways to stem the catastrophic blood loss that often kills trauma victims — one using a Tang-like, artificial blood powder and another by inducing hypothermia.
A portrait of Alton Gravez after reciving a free haircut from a barber with Live Chair Health at Penn North in Baltimore, Md. on January 13, 2023.
Community outreach program hopes to get more Black men to go to the doctor
Homegrown community outreach platform Live Chair Health uses an innovative approach to help hard-to-reach communities access healthcare.
Gov. Wes Moore, U.S Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and mental health advocacy organizations met at a roundtable in Baltimore on Friday, Jan. 27 on youth mental health.
Gov. Moore and HHS Secretary Becerra talk youth mental health, including new 988 crisis line
Governor Wes Moore and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra highlight federal and state investments in youth mental health at roundtable event in Baltimore.
Photo collage showing brick office building, with medication blister pack floating over a boy’s silhouette.
ACLU lawsuit misses the mark on systemic problems plaguing foster care, experts say
Lawsuit accuses the Maryland Department of Human Services and its Social Services Administration of overusing psychotropic medications as a form of “chemical restraint” for some kids with severe behavioral health problems.
382212 01: The controversial abortion pill known as RU-486, seen here as Mifeprex, is being shipped to U.S. physicians for the first time beginning November 20, 2000 following approval of the drug by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September.
Women can now obtain the abortion pill at retail pharmacies, FDA says. But will pharmacies comply?
The FDA changed its rules to allow the abortion pill to be obtained at the pharmacy counter instead of in-person from a provider. It’s up to pharmacies whether they will comply.
Woman holds her belly skin while applying insulin shot by an injection.
Cap on insulin copays for many Marylanders takes effect
Insulin copays dropped to $30 maximum per month for privately insured Marylanders and $35 for those with Medicare January 1, thanks to new state and federal laws.
A Miami pharmacist fills a prescription in this 2007 file photo. A Maryland board intended to limit the cost of prescription drugs will issue its first report this week.
Maryland’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board finally gets off the ground. Advocates hope its strategy pays off.
What’s next for Maryland’s first-of-its-kind Prescription Drug Price Affordability Board, and will its innovative approach to lowering drug prices succeed?
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.
The ‘tripledemic’ has landed: What it looks like, and what to do
The post-Thanksgiving uptick in respiratory illness foreshadows what could be in store following the winter holidays, experts say.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) particles, computer illustration. This pneumovirus, a type of paramyxovirus, is a major cause of human respiratory tract infections in patients of all ages. Each virion consists of RNA (ribonucleic acid) genetic material enclosed in a protein coat, or capsid, within a phospholipid envelope. The envelope is covered in protein spikes, which enable the virus to attach to and enter a host cell. In adults, RSV only affects the upper respiratory tract, but in infants bronchiolitis (bronchiole inflammation) or bronchopneumonia can result.
Immunity gap? Post-COVID immune dysfunction? Local experts weigh in on potential causes of RSV surge in children.
It’s not easy to tell where science ends, and speculation and agenda pushing begins.
Meghan Grogan holds her infant son Max Mauler.
Shortage of common drugs compounds harsh flu, RSV season
Amoxicillin and other common drugs for ear, sinus and chest infections are in short supply nationally.
Pedestrians pass the Verdugo Hills Medical Clinic where many people are being treated for the flu on December 27, 2005 in Glendale, California. The annual arrival of the flu season has reportedly intensified over the holidays with spikes in influenza cases in California, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, and Utah. Los Angeles and San Diego, California have been hit especially hard in the past two weeks. Nearly all the viruses so far come from a strain of influenza labeled A/California/07/2004, a flu virus first isolated in northern California last flu season, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Current flu season on track to be ‘one for the record books’ in Maryland
173 people are hospitalized for flu statewide, per the most recent state data, and that number is in line with what is typically seen months later.
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