Health

Johns Hopkins Hospital has placed its director of pediatric cardiac critical care on leave while it investigates anti-Palestinian social media posts from a now-deleted account.

While Baltimore’s leaders continue to look for ways to lower the city’s murder rate, a flattening of the curve on homicides is evident, Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University, says.

More than 13 years after the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore set out to make the city’s harbor swimmable, the coalition of public and private partners is planning a public swim event called “Harbor Splash” in 2024.

Much of the concern has been about rising violence against health care workers, but efforts to tackle those problems are tied to safety for patients, too.

Saint Agnes will become the first private hospital in the Baltimore area to have a nurses’ union.

The attorney for the family of 63-year-old Paul Bertonazzi released body camera video of his interactions with police to The Baltimore Banner.

The average wait time for the state's hospitals is about eight hours, according to data from the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission.

The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing announced Wednesday that it’s launching a Washington, D.C. research institute that aims to move the U.S. health care system away from its focus on treating problems and toward to preventive, whole-person care.

The second man to get a pig heart transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center has died after his body showed signs of rejecting the organ.

Growing up, Elazar Zavaletta heard that trans people, like him, are an "abomination" in the eyes of God. Now a Lutheran pastor, Zavaletta has transformed his pain into solidarity with marginalized people.

A new nonpartisan audit also uncovered problems with a consulting contract for the coronavirus vaccine rollout that was expanded to other services and ballooned from $3.8 million to $83.3 million without sufficient justification.

The Baltimore region effort is now eligible for nearly $500 million in federal funds over five years that the Greater Baltimore Committee estimates will generate $3.2 billion in economic impact and 52,000 jobs by 2030.

One month ago today, Larry Faucette became the second human ever to receive a pig heart in place of his own at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Roland Griffiths, who founded and led the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins, died yesterday. He was a pioneer in bringing psychedelics into mainstream medicine.

The city health department will hold vaccine clinics every Friday through November.

Maryland needs air quality standards to curb harmful emissions from heating and air conditioning systems and water heaters, say Panagis Galiatsatos, an associate professor and a physician in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins, and Ruth Ann Norton, president and CEO of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative.

Data shows a program at four Baltimore-area hospitals has reduced emergency visits by half among the patients who frequent the emergency room.

The second floor of the Baltimore City Circuit Court building went into lockdown Monday afternoon after an employee received a letter containing white powder.

Meghan Marsh has been the executive director since September at Disability Rights Maryland.

A Baltimore City Council hearing Wednesday offered new information but left a number of questions less than fully answered.