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During Maryland’s COVID-19 public health emergency, Medicaid coverage was extended to all Marylanders already enrolled. With the emergency coverage now ending, Maryland is beginning the process of re-enrolling all 1.8 million Medicaid beneficiaries. Organizations like Health Care for the Homeless help patients through the process of re-enrolling in Medicaid, which can include creating email addresses, locating necessary paperwork to enroll, and selecting insurance.
Over 1.6M people in Maryland enrolled in Medicaid, more than before COVID
The state finished a yearlong process of determining who should stay on Medicaid, and ended with fewer from a year ago but more than pre-COVID.
University of Maryland doctors will move into a space that was left empty when Target left Mondawmin Mall.
University of Maryland doctors to move into former Target space at Mondawmin in 2025
University of Maryland Faculty Physicians plans to open a doctors’ office at Mondawmin Mall, aiming to fulfill a community need.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Johns Hopkins to offer free medical school tuition from $1 billion Bloomberg Philanthropies grant
Bloomberg Philanthropies grants Johns Hopkins $1 billion to cover the cost of medical school.
Members of a nurses union rally to address staffing issues outside Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Catonsville on June 20, 2024.
Paper, fax machines, stress. Inside cyberattacks on hospitals
Saint Agnes Hospital was just the latest to face a cyberattack, which are increasingly focused on health care facilities. Workers want more attention to their stress.
National Institutes of Health
A professor got $16 million to work on an Alzheimer’s drug. Prosecutors say he faked data.
Hoau-Yan Wang is accused of fabricating aspects of his research on a drug treatment for Alzheimer’s disease when applying for federal grants, including making false or misleading statements to “enrich himself.”
The Maryland Department of Health offices in Baltimore.
Maryland has tons of new mental health care providers. Are they for real?
For all the new providers, relatively few new patients are being served.
A close-up of some of Loudy Puff Boyz and Gurlz Klub's strains of cannabis plants.
Smoking in the name of science: What cannabis research could tell us next year
“The smoke box” at the Cannabis Science Lab in Baltimore is about as fancy as its nickname, but it’s in one of the most advanced marijuana research labs in the country.
Old Ellicott City is seen on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024.
7 things to do in Howard County: From the Ladybug Music Festival to a Pollinator Fest
A presidential debate watch party and a free musical event featuring women-led groups are among the things to do in Howard County for the last week of June 2024.
Emergent BioSolutions will sell its remaining plant in Baltimore after a tumultuous time that began with botched COVID vaccines.
Emergent to exit Baltimore after years of tumult stemming from botched COVID-19 vaccine
Emergent BioSolutions, known for botching millions of doses of COVID vaccine, will exit Baltimore entirely with sale of another plant.
Renovated, expanded Tuerk House in Baltimore aims to help assist people struggling with addiction and mental illness.
Commentary: Here are solutions for Baltimore’s overdose crisis
City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.
Venus White, left, is a lung cancer survivor who was scanned early enough to be treated. Dr. Taofeek Owonikoko, right, is the executive director of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, where White was treated and is now cancer-free.
Marylanders aren’t getting screened for the deadliest cancer
Many patients don’t even know about the annual screening, which can save lives when it catches the disease early.
Candy Jovan demonstrates how an overdose prevention site would work at a mock setup at The Charles Theatre before the screening of a Canadian film about fentanyl on January 24, 2023.
Commentary: It’s not just opioids. New drugs make it harder to fight Baltimore’s overdose crisis.
Continued harm-reduction efforts and improved prevention strategies are needed to address Baltimore's drug overdose crisis, professors with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.
Linda Flores is a community health worker through Latino Health Initiative.
Community health workers were essential during COVID. Now, they’re asking for help.
There is a move afoot to help expand and pay for a what been a largely hidden workforce in Maryland of community health workers, who help marginalized people get health care and other services though they often go without.
Restaurateur Tony Foreman shows the scars on his chest from numerous surgeries.
A risky double transplant and back to work. Restaurateur Tony Foreman is used to almost dying.
Tony Foreman, co-founder of one of Baltimore’s biggest and most respected restaurant empires, was saved by a heart and kidney transplant surgery so tricky John Hopkins couldn’t do it.
Photo collage of old hospital building on left and young Black female medical student on right, both obscured by chain link fence.
Morgan State’s plan to train more Black doctors is years behind schedule
Construction hasn't started, funding appears uncertain and it'll be at least another two years before students enroll.
Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.
Letters: Immigrants have always made America better
Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland and their families will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.
As he faces off against Angela Alsobrooks in Maryland’s U.S. Senate race, Larry Hogan now says he favors reproductive choice for women.
Commentary: Larry Hogan’s abortion pivot reminiscent of Bush’s ‘no new taxes’
Maryland voters have every reason to be skeptical about Larry Hogan’s announcement at the start of his 2024 general election campaign for the U.S. Senate that he now favors abortion rights, says a former Maryland official who compares the announcement to President George H.W. Bush's “no new taxes” pledge.
Illustration of Henrietta Lacks and members of her family.
Henrietta Lacks family can proceed with lawsuit over use of HeLa cells after ‘milestone’ ruling
The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago.
From left: Sarah Stanton, Kim Dobson Sydnor and Maija Anderson.
Commentary: Long emergency room wait times point to health system failures
Rethinking approaches to health care and adopting a new nursing initiative would help alleviate long emergency care wait times that put Marylanders at risk, leaders of health care and nursing programs at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State universities say.
A collection of buckets full of spat- or baby oysters- sits on the edge of the Port Covington Marina during a volunteer event with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on Friday, May 10, 2024 in Baltimore, MD. (Wesley Lapointe / for The Baltimore Banner)
Key Bridge collapse sends oysters to a new home
Since 1995, an oyster reef has existed at Fort Carroll, an uninhabited island in the Patapsco River near the Key Bridge.
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