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Animal hoarding horrifies the public. Experts are trying to learn why people do it.
Animals hoarding cases — like on in February in which Baltimore County officials removed 14 dogs, 21 birds, several reptiles and a cat from a Halethorpe woman’s property — may be horrifying, but the people involved often have mental health disorders, experts find.
Baltimore County Department of Health animal services division officers remove a black Labrador Retriever from a home in Halethorpe where dozens of animals were seized last month.
Stormy Monday brings early school dismissals, chance of snow
It's going to be rainy with thunderstorms possible on Monday and Monday night, with some flurries even possible.
Potential rain and strong winds are forecast for Monday.
Estate of Henrietta Lacks settles third suit against drug companies over use of cells
The Lacks family has settled its third case against a pharmaceutical company it says profited from cells taken from Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent — this one with Viatris.
FILE - Attorney Ben Crump, second from left, walks with Ron Lacks, left, Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, both grandsons of Henrietta Lacks, and other descendants of Lacks, outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore, Oct. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)
Tap water restrictions lifted in Baltimore hospital after treating bacteria
The University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus has lifted precautionary tap water restrictions following detection of the common bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease.
An illustration of the Legionella bacteria, which can cause Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever.
Maryland hospitals spend billions on ‘community benefits.’ Lawmakers want more oversight.
Maryland lawmakers plan to add guardrails to the billions hospitals are required to spend in their communities to keep their nonprofit status.
Del. Dana Jones speaks before the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee as members consider who to nominate to fill a vacancy in the state Senate, during a meeting at the Busch Annapolis Library on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.
Why this 19-year-old Hopkins student helps record the dying’s last words
A Johns Hopkins student helped launch a project that deploys volunteers to hospices around the country to collect the final words of the dying.
Hospice patient Michael Mason told his life’s story to Vicky Meehan, a volunteer with Letters Without Limits, which turns the words into letters to family.
Bird flu rarely hurts humans, but third suspected case in Maryland raises new concerns
State officials suspect a third bird flu case statewide at a chicken farm in Caroline County.
FILE - Chickens feed on a farm, April 20, 2022, in Wilsons, Va.   Nearly 5 million chicken, turkeys and ducks have been slaughtered this year because of a persistent bird flu outbreak that began in 2022, but as big as that number may sound, it’s far less than the number of birds killed last year and that means consumers generally aren’t seeing as much impact on poultry and egg prices.
Hopkins, UMB join accelerator for AI startups in Baltimore
The region’s health care leaders are collaborating on a startup accelerator focused on AI products and services.
The venture fund Techstars is collaborating with Johns Hopkins University and others to assist AI-related start-ups in Baltimore.
Maryland had few mumps cases in 2025. This year is very different.
State health officials say there are now 26 cases of mumps in Maryland, nearly double last week’s figure and more than six times the tally for all of last year.
Mumps cases in Maryland jump to 26 this year, more than six times the 2025 total.
Maryland faces another spate of viral infections. This time it’s mumps.
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
Vaccine information laid out during a Vaccine Clinic offered at BCPS Fest held at New Town High School on August 16th, 2025 in Owings Mills, MD.
Top Baltimore County health officer improperly removed from his job, court rules
A Maryland appeals court ruled that Dr. Gregory Branch was improperly removed from his job as county health officer.
Dr. Gregory Wm. Branch outside the Baltimore County Health Department in 2021.
Maryland redirected money to meet abortion demand. Then the feds stepped in.
Last year, Maryland lawmakers thought they had come up with a legal way to repurpose millions of dollars collected by insurers selling Affordable Care Act policies to help women who couldn’t afford abortions. The feds just squashed the plan.
Abortion Fund of Maryland Co-Executive Director Lynn McCann-Yeh was hoping a new state fund would help the group meet demand for assistance in accessing abortions.
A sniff for the sniffles? UMD’s nasal spray could fight flu, COVID and colds
The University of Maryland is testing a nasal spray to help protect people from common colds, flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory infections.
University of Maryland researchers are working on a nasal spray to fend off flu and other viruses.
A broken eye socket and frostbite, but no storm surge for Maryland ERs so far
Maryland hospitals have treated some more snowstorm-related patients, but it's not been overwhelming so far, officials say. They are, however, ready for ice to send more their way.
A "care cart" with goodies is making the rounds for staff at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore.
It’s actually hard to give someone the flu. UMD researchers keep trying.
Dr. Donald K. Milton has been trying to give people the flu for years.
Dr. Don Milton sits in a Gesundheit machine, which he helped develop to capture and analyze infectious viruses in the breath of people who are sick.
Doctors have advice about shoveling and sledding in all that snow
Emergency physicians are warning people to take safety precautions during the snowstorm to avoid common issues, such as sledding injuries in children and heart attacks in adults.
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026 — Workers try to keep up with the falling snow while clearing the sidewalks at the Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services early Sunday morning.
From roads to hospitals, how Maryland is preparing for the snowstorm
Here’s how local and state agencies, hospitals and transportation authorities are preparing for the winter storm in Maryland.
A snow plow on St. Paul Avenue on Monday, January 6, 2025.
Maryland hospitals are flooded with flu patients. They will soon get millions in aid.
This flu season is shaping up to be a bad one, and not a lot of people have been vaccinated, so Maryland Gov. Wes Moore took the time to tell people it’s not too late.
Gov. Wes Moore announced that hospitals in Maryland would get extra funding to help them care for a surge of flu patients during an event Thursday at the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center in Prince George’s County.
Maryland boosted health insurance enrollment this year. So what’s the problem?
Maryland has done its best to minimize the impacts of lapsing federal subsidies by providing its own, and early numbers suggest that may help retain enrollees.
The Maryland Health Connection site, the state's health exchange.
What’s it like at a Maryland urgent care during a surge in flu? Snot so good.
The University of Maryland Medical System is steering people to urgent care instead of hospitals. At urgent care centers, this flu season has been a doozy.
Kaitlyn Barron stands for a chest X-ray at the University of Maryland Urgent Care center in Pasadena while technician Kristen Kurtz, right, and physician assistant Haley Schweizer look at the images.
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