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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.
Gov. Moore wants Maryland to set its own vaccine rules
Gov. Wes Moore is seeking to bigfoot the new federal vaccine recommendations, which do not universally include flu, COVID and RSV shots.
Amina Amusa (8) gets a bandage over the injection site following her vaccines received during a Vaccine Clinic offered at BCPS Fest held at New Town High School on August 16th, 2025 in Owings Mills, MD.
The panel charged with speeding up Maryland ER waits is taking too long, member says
Dr. Dan Morhaim, a former Democratic state delegate and emergency room doctor, serves on a state commission to reduce Maryland’s emergency room wait times, which are the longest in the nation.
Patients waiting doctors appointment at clinic hallway. People wait in queue at hospital hall with reception desk. Sick persons at medical center interior, healthcare Line art flat vector illustration
New variant, fewer vaccinations could make for a miserable Maryland flu season
Last flu season was bad, and cases are already on the rise this year. Maryland may not be prepared, as only about a quarter of people are vaccinated.
Andrea Coker’s two teenage boys both tested positive for the flu, which this year comes with high fevers.
Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks  after being sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Times are tough. Here’s where people in Baltimore are finding joy
The headlines may feel hard, and the temperatures cold, but these well-known and lesser known Marylanders have found joy in blacksmithing, running and beekeeping.
Dr. Bruce Jarrell, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore, finds joy in his metalwork.
Federal deadline for Obamacare sign-up is Monday, but Marylanders have a bit more time
Dec. 15 is the deadline to buy health insurance through the state heath exchange. How are people coping with spiking premiums, and what is the state doing to help?
Daven Ralston owns Charm City Books with her husband Joseph Carlson. The couple are facing a big jump in the cost of their family health insurance through the exchange because of lost federal subsidies.
Baltimore health leader fears Trump administration’s latest change on vaccines
Dr. Michelle Taylor, Baltimore’s health commissioner, said the hepatitis B vaccination effort has been so effective that the city hasn’t had a case of a newborn with the infection in a decade. That record is now under threat.
Dr. Michelle Taylor, Baltimore’s heath commissioner, joined other health leaders in promoting the value of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.
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