Although considered atypical for a health department to be involved in victims' services, the program has grown as the lens through which Baltimore views its trauma expands from a public safety issue to a public health issue.
Opponents to a ballot measure that could legalize marijuana for recreational use say there's been little focus on mental health harms that marijuana, which is already approved for medical use, may cause or exacerbate, including psychosis and depression; especially in children and teenagers.
Washington, D.C., health officials have vaccinated people against monkeypox at a rate at least 56 times higher than Maryland, a Baltimore Banner data analysis of both jurisdictions’ data found.
Surveyors flagged problems in the medical center’s food preparation facilities, primarily the kitchen in one of the hospital’s original buildings, and pointed out various pieces of furniture in need of repair.
The city's top public works official told council members that there were many "lessons learned" in last week's response to bacteria contamination in the Baltimore water system.
With an average age of 75 years, Baltimore’s old water pipes have become increasingly vulnerable to the kinds of contamination that occurred last week.
A new outpatient mental health treatment center in Howard County combines elements of art therapy, group therapy and intensive outpatient therapy to make mental health treatment more palatable and relatable to artists, professionals and other creatives.
The proposed Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine at Morgan aims to increase the number of Black doctors entering the profession and, in turn, increase Black Baltimore residents’ access to physicians that look like them.