Health

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.

Johns Hopkins, the Baltimore area’s largest private employer, terminated its contract with the insurer Tuesday, but patients procedures scheduled through Dec. 4 won’t be affected by the ongoing negotiations.

The area covered by a boil-water advisory has been reduced, but city officials still haven’t determined what caused the E. coli contamination.

Much of West Baltimore is under a boil water advisory Tuesday, and city officials are limiting residents top three gallons of bottled water per household.

DPW said it was "flushing the system continuously and performing leak detection, valve assessments and increasing chlorination in the area.”

Maryland Department of Health data shows the vast majority of overdose deaths stemmed from fentanyl.

The FDA has a website that lists updated expiration dates.

The lack of reliable mass transit systems drives inequities.

Most people accept that your body will start breaking down after 50. A local physical therapist says it doesn't have to be that way.

More than half of all patients are Black and nearly half are in their 30s.

City officials will hear from CSX about the explosion in Curtis Bay late last year.

Federal housing officials in the Baltimore HUD field office have requested an investigation from Office of the Inspector General of Investigations of AIDS Interfaith Residential Services and its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Homes of Maryland. Non-profit CEO says: 'There was no impropriety.'

The longer kids stay in hospitals, physicians and administrators say, the more that their mental health deteriorates, and the more that limited and costly emergency-room resources are shifted away from other patients with critical needs.

“From a surveillance perspective, we’re flying blind right now,” said Chris Beyrer, the outgoing Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Here’s a roundup of what to know about the monkeypox outbreak, sourced from a slate of regional experts in public health, epidemiology and infectious diseases.

Baltimore's health department says there's no appointments available for monkeypox vaccines, but the city is working to get more doses.

A local mother illustrates her experience tracking down a COVID vaccine for her young son.

The Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals voted last October to give Vaughn Greene Funeral Services permission to install a crematorium. Neighbors filed a petition in Baltimore City Circuit Court and now await a judge’s decision.

Hosts for Humanity, a small nonprofit that assists people traveling to Baltimore for healthcare, is relaunching next month and broadening its scope to welcome those coming here for abortions. Already, 15 new families have signed up to be hosts.

City workers said the decrepit condition of a sexual health clinic building provides a window into a much larger problem with old Baltimore buildings.