Health

COVID-19 cases are rising, and a new vaccine is approved, but it can be hard to find doses in the Baltimore area.

Portions of Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County are affected, and those with compromised immune systems should filter or boil water before drinking, officials said.

Black women are more than three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

As the Greater Baltimore Committee focuses on boosting this region’s economic competitiveness, it must also support programs to end the economic apartheid that now plagues the city’s disadvantaged Black neighborhoods, says Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University.

While the next few weeks will be critical, doctors were thrilled at Lawrence Faucette’s early response to the pig organ.

A surgeon at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore is among the pioneers of procedure called HIPEC that can give some late-stage cancer patients months or years cancer free.

The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and that no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service.

About 4,000 Kaiser nurses, technicians and medical professionals could go on strike as early as Oct. 1 if the company and coalition of unions cannot agree on a new contract by the end of September.

Women of color can experience separate menopause symptoms, and sometimes more severely than others. We need to talk about it.

A community wealth fund would provide a financial lifeline for Baltimore’s working poor, says a union leader for this region’s service workers.

When a lifelong soccer player became a full-time wheelchair user, she found comfort in adaptive sports.

New COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be available soon, as early as this week.

Improved public health policies and individual actions by loved ones can help prevent suicides, Anthony Woods, Maryland’s secretary of veterans affairs, says.

A gastroenterologist at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Centerexplains what the disease is and why it could cause the Boss to take a month off.

This fall, the Anne Arundel County Department of Health and the city of Annapolis will select one neighborhood and one nonprofit for its first Cure Violence program. The goal is to end the tragedy of deaths like Robert Clark's.

Deaths are unusual from West Nile virus, but there are more cases nationally. So what should be done about all the mosquitoes?

Black youth suicide rates increased 144% from 2007 to 2020, with data showing that Black LGBTQ+ youth are particularly at risk, according to a new report from the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins.

Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices will result in lower out-of-pocket costs for beneficiaries as well as premiums for Part D, Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, experts say.

The move is expected to cut costs for some patients but faces litigation from the drugmakers and heavy criticism from Republican lawmakers.

Corporate representatives say the McHenry Row store in the 1800 block of Whetstone Way will resume operations Thursday at 7 a.m. after a 'thorough mitigation process.'