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    Free Naloxone signs are displayed at a tent during a health event on June 26, 2021, in Charleston, W.Va.
    US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen
    U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks has repeatedly called on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign from his post as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
    Alsobrooks, RFK Jr. spar during testy Senate hearing
    “Sir, you are the wrong person for this job,” U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a budget hearing on Wednesday.
    Seize The Grey led the pack in the 149th running of The Preakness Stakes.
    Why are Preakness racehorses such good athletes? Their ancestors didn’t want to get eaten.
    A Johns Hopkins ophthalmologist has identified a gene mutation in horses that suggests why they became such good racehorses.
    State health officials have spent weeks trying to assess the impact of what they see as increasingly likely cuts outlined by GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
    Here’s how Medicaid cuts could be a $1 billion blow to Maryland’s budget
    Maryland health officials have outlined the massive potential cuts to the budget and enrollment if Congress goes through with proposals to slash the Medicaid health program.
    Close up photo of adult female deer tick crawling on piece of straw.
    It’s tick season and there is a new bugger catching a ride in Baltimore
    There have always been a few cases of babesiosis in Maryland every year, but now researcher says the Baltimore region has become a hotspot for cases tied to parasites found on ticks.
    How Baltimore County school budget woes could reshape student mental health support
    Psychologists and counselors were reclassified to 10-month employees to save money in Baltimore County.
    Federal workers may ‘need to vent’: How to cope and manage workplace stress
    Federal workers who are still on the job may find their changing commutes and positions stressful, but there are ways to cope.
    FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. As Americans head into the late 2022 holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections.
    Thousands of Marylanders used this site to track their vaccinations. Now it’s gone.
    A popular online portal to track Marylanders’ vaccination histories became unavailable in the state Thursday.
    The encampment in Brooklyn Park features several tents in circle with Pam Macapagal's shelter in the center.
    Twice as many Baltimoreans needed an emergency shelter in the last 2 years
    The number of people using Baltimore’s emergency shelter system for overnight stays has doubled in the last two years, the latest city data shows.
    Johns Hopkins University plans to launch research grant programs of its own to help make up for lost federal funding.
    Johns Hopkins to tap earnings from endowment to help address federal cuts
    As the federal government scales back funding for research, Johns Hopkins is launching its own grant programs to keep the work going.
    The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
    The state’s troubled psychiatric hospital has a new issue: Legionella bacteria
    The troubled Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center is the latest state building to test positive for Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease.
    Photo collage shows close up of woman’s face in profile, her eyes look right. On right side of collage are a breast pump and baby bottle with a jury box seats in the background.
    Parents of young children will be able to defer jury duty under new state law
    Maryland's governor has signed a law allowing new mothers to be excused from jury duty for up to three years, making the policy uniform across the state.
    Air quality reached dangerous levels in Baltimore on June 7, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to fill the sky.
    New Jersey wildfire smoke is lowering the Baltimore region’s air quality
    The Maryland Department of Emergency Management warned of “moderate” air quality issues and areas of “light” visible smoke from a wildfire in New Jersey.
    A Mallard swims in pollen filled water along the eastern shoreline of the Patapsco River in Baltimore County.
    Allergy season is in full swing in Maryland and about to get worse. Here’s how to cope.
    Baltimore’s allergy season is here and it may big longer and worse for many of us.
    Pikesville’s Seven Mile Market is named in a lawsuit accusing the retailer of negligence for selling listeria-contaminated ice cream to a woman in 2023.
    Newborn’s alleged listeria-related death from ice cream sparks $30 million lawsuit
    A woman whose baby died from an alleged listeria infection is suing Seven Mile Market in Pikesville as well as multiple ice cream makers for selling a contaminated product.
    Pikesville resident Jill Smokler, who created the popular parenting site Scary Mommy, faces a terminal brain cancer diagnosis.
    Scary Mommy creator Jill Smokler faces brain cancer with warmth and wit
    When Jill Smokler awoke at Johns Hopkins Hospital last year, her skull sealed shut with a jagged seam of staples, her first response was wry laughter.
    The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
    State’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital gets failure warning
    Clifton T. Perkins, the state-run maximum security hospital for those charged with crimes, was warned to improve or risk losing its accreditation.
    Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
    Hopkins trailblazer scrambles to protect cancer research as Trump cuts hit home
    The world-class pancreatic cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins University had so-called indirect funds slashed by the federal government.
    As state lawmakers deal with the next state budget, they know that more work may be left to come if Congress cuts federal funding for the Medicaid health insurance program to pay for federal tax cuts.
    The $1B problem that everyone in Annapolis is worried about
    The state spends a total of $16 billion on Medicaid, with $9 billion from federal sources — but cuts could be coming.
    AN OPRAH WINFREY SPECIAL: THE MENOPAUSE REVOLUTION - After addressing topics like weight loss and artificial intelligence with in-depth conversations over the past year, Oprah Winfrey is now tackling the inevitable phase of life every woman will face: menopause. MONDAY, MARCH 31 (10:01-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (Disney/Eric McCandless)
NAOMI WATTS, OPRAH WINFREY, HALLE BERRY, DR. MARY CLAIRE HAVER
    Finally, hot people are talking about hot flashes
    Oprah Winfrey recently brought noted hot people like Naomi Watts and Halle Berry into the discussion about menopause on a television special. Maybe this will help break the shame of The Change.
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