Health

Clifton T. Perkins will get new leadership after the state’s psychiatric hospital CEO made threats to staff.

PHA Healthcare has told some patients that they can continue to reside in its housing, according to Banner interviews with current clients.

Bird flu has been found on the Eastern Shore, so how big a threat is it to chickens and humans?

Kristina Page runs an outreach service for sex workers who often are shut out from help in Baltimore.

A new center in the Baltimore biopark will help develop and commercialize technology that officials say will save and improve people’s lives.

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.

Last year, 72 Marylanders died from reported cold-related illness; 51 the season before. Cold weather illness includes hypothermia and frostbite. Exercising in cold weather, including shoveling snow, can also cause cardiac health issues.

In September 2023, exactly one year after West Virginia’s abortion ban took effect, the new clinic opened its doors in tiny Cresaptown in Allegany County

New Year’s Day has been the deadliest day of the year for overdoses, a Banner analysis of a decade of autopsy data found.

The U.S. and the world continue to benefit from Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments as president and the humanitarian work he pursued after leaving office, University of Maryland Law professor Larry S. Gibson says.

Two more government buildings closed early on Friday after showing elevated levels of Legionella bacteria in the water system, the mayor’s office announced.

Baltimore City embraces a Plan B for rats, so to speak.

An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu.

The moratorium, first announced in June, followed explosive growth of new providers, some of whom were described by officials as unscrupulous.

Food safety advocates say a 2024 rise in recalls is evidence of a well-regulated system. But that doesn't stop outbreaks from getting any weirder.

According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, raw pork sausage items produced by Impero from Oct. 3 to Dec. 19 were processed without inspection.

Baltimore addiction programs draw patients with free housing while collecting millions. Some say one program—PHA Healthcare—offered little help.

Three more court buildings in Baltimore have tested positive for the bacteria that can cause Legionnaires’ disease, officials announced Friday.

A note from Baltimore Banner Editor in Chief Kimi Yoshino on The Banner sharing data about U.S. overdoses.

The trial in Howard County Circuit Court ended with what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in county history.