Health

At the five-year mark, it seems like the right moment to reflect on the pandemic and ask whether we learned anything from it.

Advocates are backing a City Council bill that would create a task force to help renegotiate Baltimore's PILOT with nonprofits.

There was a measles case found in Maryland. Here is what we know about who was exposed and what to do.

Makary is considered one of Trump’s more conventional health nominees and is widely expected to be confirmed.

A Baltimore Democrat is pushing a new bill to improve state oversight of drug addiction treatment centers.

A Howard County resident who recently traveled abroad tested positive for the highly contagious virus measles, the Maryland Department of Health said Sunday.

Johns Hopkins researchers believe their findings represent the first assessment of how Baltimore-area residents think about climate change.

Conditions at the much beleaguered solid waste division of the Baltimore Department of Public Works are beginning to improve after myriad problems were brought to light last summer.

The Baltimore City Council’s Budget and Appropriations Committee approved more than $14 million to community organizations and city agencies to help tackle Baltimore’s overdose crisis, which in recent years had become the worst ever in a major American city.

Never before had more people accused of crimes in Maryland, but deemed too mentally ill to participate in their own cases, been left languishing in jail than in February.

Dr. Francis Collins came to the NIH in 1993 to lead the Human Genome Project, which in 2003 completed mapping the human DNA instruction book.

With measles cases rising in Texas and the death of a child, public health officials are unsettled. But Maryland appears to have a good vaccination level for protection.

The Trump cost-cutting measures for health research would prompt layoffs, the Johns Hopkins University says.

The operators of The Reprieve are among many addiction and mental health treatment providers — both prospective and established — who have said delays in the state’s bureaucratic machinery are hindering their ability to help Marylanders in the midst of an overdose crisis.

Egg prices hit a record high in January as avian influenza continues decimating flocks around the country and in Maryland.

Elevated levels of the Legionella bacteria were again detected at three Baltimore City courthouses, the mayor’s office announced on Friday.

In a submitted letter, an agency official wrote that the bill aligns well with the Moore administration’s goal to prioritize transparency, honesty and openness. Last year, another agency official expressed concern about a similar bill.

Concerns about the reliability of the agency’s data emerged after The Banner questioned the growing number of child maltreatment fatalities in Maryland that had seemingly gone unnoticed by elected officials. Worry about the accuracy of human services data has widened since then.

Hospitals say the system is on the verge of crisis, with access to care increasingly at stake.

Baltimore County residents are treated for nonfatal opioid overdoses more than 1,500 times a year, according to state data.