Health

An executive order from the Trump administration could upend research by pausing NIH grants, which scientists say could harm health and the economy.

The rhetoric surrounding immigration and deportations is certain to set large parts of Maryland on edge.

The owner of PHA Healthcare said he has ended its treatment services, but clients are still living in the addiction treatment provider’s housing.

A state board suspended the permit for Heaven Bound Cremation Services LLC after finding the crematory was not cremating bodies properly, but stockpiling them.

State officials have recorded 24 deaths related to the cold weather as of Jan. 18, according to the latest data available from the Maryland Department of Health.

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement.

Baltimore County firefighters say they continue efforts to extinguish a fire at a recycling plant in Dundalk.

Baltimore Police have advised people to drive carefully due to icy and snowy roads Sunday night. Temperatures are expected to drop and usher in 1 to 3 inches of snow Sunday and maybe more on Tuesday.

Clifton T. Perkins will get new leadership after the state’s psychiatric hospital CEO made threats to staff.

PHA Healthcare has told some patients that they can continue to reside in its housing, according to Banner interviews with current clients.

Bird flu has been found on the Eastern Shore, so how big a threat is it to chickens and humans?

Kristina Page runs an outreach service for sex workers who often are shut out from help in Baltimore.

A new center in the Baltimore biopark will help develop and commercialize technology that officials say will save and improve people’s lives.

PHA Healthcare, a drug addiction treatment provider that enrolls hundreds of Medicaid patients in Maryland each year, has been ordered by the state health department to stop providing services to patients.

Last year, 72 Marylanders died from reported cold-related illness; 51 the season before. Cold weather illness includes hypothermia and frostbite. Exercising in cold weather, including shoveling snow, can also cause cardiac health issues.

In September 2023, exactly one year after West Virginia’s abortion ban took effect, the new clinic opened its doors in tiny Cresaptown in Allegany County

New Year’s Day has been the deadliest day of the year for overdoses, a Banner analysis of a decade of autopsy data found.

The U.S. and the world continue to benefit from Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments as president and the humanitarian work he pursued after leaving office, University of Maryland Law professor Larry S. Gibson says.

Two more government buildings closed early on Friday after showing elevated levels of Legionella bacteria in the water system, the mayor’s office announced.

Baltimore City embraces a Plan B for rats, so to speak.