Health

MOMCares, a Baltimore organization that specializes in maternal health, is seeing spiking demand for doula trainings, which founder Ana Rodney attributes to the changes in access to reproductive health services across the country.

FDA considers Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions’ naloxone spray for over-the-counter use.

It’s not easy to tell where science ends, and speculation and agenda pushing begins.

COVID-19 took years off Americans’ lives, but so did other ills, and they all need to be addressed.

The city is hailed as a model for its trap-neuter-release program, but even as it becomes more mainstream, some consider the practice unethical.

Johns Hopkins scientists and others are still looking at flu strains to see how strong they are and how well they match the vaccine.

In this week’s Culture Report, Lawrence Burney highlights the best Baltimore club rap from the year, D.C.’s Shy Glizzy’s new platinum record and a new video series aiming to get more Black Baltimoreans vaccinated against COVID-19.

Former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke recalls the ”scorn, derision and dismissiveness” he encountered when he argued in favor of the decriminalization of marijuana and other drugs in the 1980s. He now applauds the public and political shift to his point of view, but advises caution as drug laws are reformed.

The World Health Organization cited stigma in changing the name of monkeypox to mpox.

About 60 people rallied and marched in Curtis Bay to demand accountability from the transportation company that operates the coal terminal in South Baltimore where there was an explosion last year.

Advocates say they are “appalled” by Maryland Energy Administration grants aimed at promoting and expanding natural gas infrastructure in the state.

The therapy won’t harm other parts of the body, unlike traditional chemotherapy drugs.

Wages have increased by about 25% at Maryland hospitals since the start of the pandemic in early 2020

For Maryland’s American Indian population, Thanksgiving can be a complicated — and oftentimes painful — reminder of lost lives, land and culture.

Amoxicillin and other common drugs for ear, sinus and chest infections are in short supply nationally.

173 people are hospitalized for flu statewide, per the most recent state data, and that number is in line with what is typically seen months later.

State health officials plan to seek a new vendor by year’s end.

Recent examples of mistreatment of people with disabilities point to a need to provide them with greater protections, an advocate for people with autism says. An election judge calls for the return of centralized polling places.

Sheppard Pratt President and CEO Dr. Harsh K. Trivedi says Maryland needs to do more to address what he calls a behavioral health crisis affecting young children and teens. Hospital emergency departments are not the best setting to respond to a rise in behavioral problems among young people linked to the pandemic and other factors.

On any given day this past summer, about 50 children in Maryland found themselves in hospital emergency departments waiting weeks — or even months ― for a spot in a residential treatment center, psychiatric facility, or therapeutic foster home.