Health

The effort stands in contrast to those in more conservative states that moved to limit abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

State officials detected a case of H5N1 avian influenza in a backyard flock of chickens in Charles County.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s plan would make it the second HBCU in the country and first university in the state to offer a stand-alone veterinary school.

The current vendor “has just failed to deliver” the level of service that Marylanders deserve, said Gov. Wes Moore, one of three members of the Board of Public Works that approved the contract.

A restraining order was issued against the top official at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center.

You probably have a box of tests on the shelf. Is it worth using?

These former Glen Burnie High prom dates rekindled their relationship decades later after reconnecting on Facebook. A diagnosis changed their journey.

The recent trial yielded only a legal answer, not the one Maurtice Brown and his family are still looking for.

The continuing impact of COVID-19 and other illnesses is an important factor in persistently high absenteeism at Maryland’s schools, a children’s health advocate says.

Maryland Department of Health and Montgomery County health officials said Thursday that a person who traveled internationally recently has been diagnosed with the disease.

The victim was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Use of edibles and other cannabis products can harm teens, and parents must act to protect them, says Renee M. Johnson, a professor in the Department of Mental Health and Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The federal Department of Justice and Maryland-based MedStar Health have reached a $440,000 settlement over allegations that the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

As funding dries up, more than 200 formerly homeless Baltimoreans could lose the support of a program helping them stay under a roof and out of the hospital.

The little-known housing program supports about 900 households statewide and is now set to expand.

Eileen Harlin is one of just a dozen living people to donate both a liver and a kidney to save someone else's life.

A fox spotted near Taneytown in Carroll County has tested positive for the rabies virus, the Carroll County Health Department said Tuesday.

Rescuers said a woman who fell in Baltimore’s icy harbor died, but later said she didn’t. A doctor calls the reason basic physiology.

The language that would be added to the state constitution would declare that “every person ... has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom.” And that freedom includes, but is not limited to, “the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end one’s own pregnancy.”

The number of Black people who signed up for insurance on Maryland's health exchange jumped by 33% to more than 41,600.