Meredith Cohn
health reporter
Meredith Cohn has been covering health and other beats in Baltimore for more than two decades, and worked at The Baltimore Sun before joining The Banner. She’s a native of Maryland and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park. She began her career at the Hagerstown Morning Herald and also spent time as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot and a congressional reporter at States News Service in Washington, D.C.
The latest from Meredith
Stop moving the clocks back? Scientists say keeping daylight saving time isn’t the answer.
Scientists pick a side in the debate over daylight saving time, which ends this weekend.
As flu cases rise in Maryland, here’s how to get ready
The flu season is well underway on the West Coast, meaning it’s headed our way. Here is what to expect.
Why Maryland is writing prescriptions that come in a grocery bag
Maryland is granting millions to 14 communities to offer prescriptions for specific healthy food to stem chronic diseases.
How a mammogram could help Marylanders prevent a heart attack
A first-in-the-nation law in Maryland requires mammogram providers to notify patients if scans reveal signs of cardiovascular risk.
These 248 Maryland schools are most vulnerable to measles outbreaks
Infectious-diseases experts say vaccination rates at some schools are concerning as Maryland sets a modern record for cases amid a wave of national outbreaks.
Feds strip thousands of immigrants living in Maryland of Medicaid coverage
The first wave of cuts to Medicaid go into effect today, stripping about 4,500 people legally living in Maryland from the healthcare plan for low-income people.
A new mRNA flu vaccine is ready. This is what you need to know about mFlusiva.
Doctors are recommending a new type of flu vaccine for people aged 50 and up, though the same vaccine could be prescribed to younger adults by a doctor "off-label" for an unapproved use. But it's not clear whether insurers will cover the cost.
More Maryland hospitals are removing fallopian tubes to prevent cancer
Area hospitals have begun offering to remove fallopian tubes during other procedures after researchers, including one from Johns Hopkins, found that many cases of deadly ovarian cancer begin in the tubes.
Maryland offers its own vaccine guidance for the first time since split from feds
Maryland health officials, using new authority, are splitting from the feds and offering their own guidance on vaccines for flu, COVID and RSV, as well as other viruses.
Tech woes limited ER services at three Johns Hopkins hospitals over two days
Three hospitals within the Johns Hopkins Health System were under “Code Black” status on Monday, Sept. 7.
Hospitals in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties hit with cyberattack
Two hospitals in Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties are the latest in Maryland to be hit by a cyberattack, according to their parent company.
Maryland alleges faulty software allowed multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud
A lawsuit announced Thursday by the state seeks about $380 million in damages.
Maryland’s system to license nurses was broken. The $4 million fix didn’t help.
Maryland rolled out a new licensing system for nurses, but it's causing new problems.
Maryland measles cases jump tenfold this year, with outbreak declared in 3 counties
Maryland’s health department reported 14 new cases of measles in several counties, bringing the annual total to 31 — a striking increase from years past.
Maryland’s Summer of Ick: It’s more than parasites
Maryland and the nation are piling up some pretty yucky statistics in food-borne, tick and mosquito-related and viral infections. What is going on?
ICE arrests of two Baltimore academics shake Maryland universities
The recent arrests of the two Baltimore academics by federal immigration enforcement officials have roiled two university systems in Maryland that have robust networks of international faculty, researchers and students.
A Hopkins researcher tried to board a plane at BWI. She ended up in ICE custody, bound for Texas.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has transferred Fatima Ameaka, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins, to a detention facility in Louisiana, according to a government website that tracks those detained by ICE.
Dozens more cyclosporiasis cases hit Maryland as outbreak spans nation
Maryland health officials reported a few dozen more cases of the tummy-turning infection cyclosporiasis as the national outbreak continues.
Insurance deny your prescription? You’re far from alone, Hopkins study finds
A Johns Hopkins study found 1 in 3 attempts to fill prescriptions of brand-name drugs was initially denied, with new weight loss drugs leading the pack.
Measles is on the verge of a national record. Here’s what it means for Maryland.
Five new measles cases in Maryland push the nation closer to a record-setting year that public health officials say could have been avoided.
