Health

Former Maryland Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein will chair the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 3 people will get jiggy with varicella zoster virus in their lifetimes. If you’ve had chickenpox, there’s a very good chance the virus will pay you a return visit.

Most hospitals and doctors’ offices aren’t mandating masks, but they can stave off illness, expert say.

How did an unpaid medical bill affect your life?

Baltimore needs to prioritize emergency rental assistance to protect families from the physical and mental harm caused by evictions, representatives of two community advocacy groups say.

A second water sample taken Tuesday from Druid Lake Reservoir has tested negative for the parasite cryptosporidium.

The city health initiative offers COVID vaccines to adults without insurance or whose insurance doesn’t cover the cost.

Kaiser Permanente workers across the country have gone on strike, but not in Maryland so far.

Mental health professionals and crisis response researchers now have more than two decades of experience responding to school and campus shootings, and have a better idea of how to help survivors and community members whose mental health may suffer.

Test results delivered Tuesday showed no traces of the parasite cryptosporidium in the open-air reservoir, where low levels had recently been found.

How safe is the drinking water in Baltimore right now? How did Baltimore discover cryptosporidium in the water? We answer those questions and more.

In the wake of confirmed — or even suspected — cryptosporidium contamination, it is common for certified labs to offer 24-hour testing for an additional fee.

New fellowship program offered by local universities aims to strengthen school social worker pipeline, but schools still won’t have enough social workers.

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.