Health

Under the Trump administration, ICE has detained immigrants in Baltimore holding rooms for an average of 51 hours, four times longer than the maximum time limit under its longstanding policy, according to a Baltimore Banner analysis of federal data.

Volunteers with the Gunpowder Riverkeepers are uncovering dangerously high E. coli levels in parts of Baltimore’s beloved river, raising concerns about water safety, pollution and what’s at stake for 1.8 million residents who rely on it for drinking water and recreation.

Brian Pieninck, CareFirst CEO, will take over as CEO of another BlueCross BlueShield insurer in Florida.

A survivor of the July 10 mass overdose incident in West Baltimore struggled at first to find an open treatment center.

The Indian company Syngene plans to take over an existing plant in Bayview and make some of the most cutting-edge drugs, though it didn't come because Trump wanted drug maker to move to the U.S. Their customers did.

Maryland heat-related deaths are up to 19 so far this summer, according to the latest data from the Maryland Department of Health.

If Johns Hopkins Medicine and UnitedHealthcare are at odds over a new contract, and if they can't come to an agreement, Hopkins doctors will be out of UHC's network as of Aug. 25.

Emergency room visits in Maryland from tick bites have reached an all-time high because of climate change and urbanization.

Continuous glucose monitors, small patches that provide 24-hour insight into concentrations of sugar in the blood, could be a tool for Americans to “take control over their own health.

For a successful living kidney transplant, donor and recipient have to match up on a lot of things — but not personality.

U.S. Senior District Judge James K. Bredar threw out the jury's verdict in the trial of Dr. Ron Elfenbein.

A new analysis by Maryland health officials finds a potential loss of $2.7 billion over time from the new law passed by Congress.

It has rained every Wednesday for the last eight weeks. It washes garbage and leaves and dead animals and poop into the Chesapeake Bay.

Unionized nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore are preparing to hold a one-day strike next week over what organizers say is hospital management’s refusal to address understaffing and other issues.

A federal testing program found the synthetic opioid fentanyl mixed with other new drugs may be to blame for the mass overdose in Baltimore.

Baltimore groups ask for more funding for drug treatment services in the Penn North neighborhood in West Baltimore.

It’s now an all-in-one process, no matter which benefits a Marylander is hoping to sign up for.

Here’s what you need to know about Narcan, a brand of the overdose-reversal drug naloxone, and how to use it.

A suspected “bad batch” of drugs that swept through West Baltimore sent at least 27 people to the hospital Thursday.

The beaches at Assateague Island may look as beautiful as ever this summer, but they’ll be missing something critical: lifeguards.