Health

The layoffs are part of a global reduction of more than 2,000 employees.

Environmentalists have pushed for years to no avail to end the state’s subsidy for trash incinerators, which burn garbage to produce electricity and steam.

Immigrants and their attorneys claim there are no beds, little food and medicine at Baltimore’s ICE holding room.

Maryland’s hospitals have, for now, dodged federal cost cutters, who axed a half dozen special programs around the country for not saving enough money.

Jhpiego and the Center for Communication Programs, global aid groups affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, have begun layoffs and a reorganization as millions in federal funding from USAID is cut off.

A Maryland woman pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid of millions for mental health services she never provided.

At the five-year mark, it seems like the right moment to reflect on the pandemic and ask whether we learned anything from it.

Advocates are backing a City Council bill that would create a task force to help renegotiate Baltimore's PILOT with nonprofits.

There was a measles case found in Maryland. Here is what we know about who was exposed and what to do.

Makary is considered one of Trump’s more conventional health nominees and is widely expected to be confirmed.

A Baltimore Democrat is pushing a new bill to improve state oversight of drug addiction treatment centers.

A Howard County resident who recently traveled abroad tested positive for the highly contagious virus measles, the Maryland Department of Health said Sunday.

Johns Hopkins researchers believe their findings represent the first assessment of how Baltimore-area residents think about climate change.

Conditions at the much beleaguered solid waste division of the Baltimore Department of Public Works are beginning to improve after myriad problems were brought to light last summer.

The Baltimore City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee approved more than $14 million to community organizations and city agencies to help tackle Baltimore’s overdose crisis, which in recent years had become the worst ever in a major American city.

Never before had more people accused of crimes in Maryland, but deemed too mentally ill to participate in their own cases, been left languishing in jail than in February.

Dr. Francis Collins came to the NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 completed mapping the human DNA instruction book.

With measles cases rising in Texas and the death of a child, public health officials are unsettled. But Maryland appears to have a good vaccination level for protection.

The Trump cost-cutting measures for health research would prompt layoffs, the Johns Hopkins University says.

The operators of The Reprieve are among many addiction and mental health treatment providers — both prospective and established — who have said delays in the state’s bureaucratic machinery are hindering their ability to help Marylanders in the midst of an overdose crisis.