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    Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle students moved after mold discovered in walls
    Nearly 600 South Baltimore students will be bused eight miles to the former Thurgood Marshall Middle School building in East Baltimore.
    Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School students have been moved after mold was discovered in the walls of the school.
    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.
    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.
    Drug overdose deaths plummeted in Maryland, Baltimore again last year
    Preliminary state numbers show a more than 45% decrease in drug overdose deaths since 2023.
    A woman displays the box of Narcan provided to her by a Bmore POWER worker on Arlington Avenue in Baltimore on Thursday, December 14, 2023.
    Johns Hopkins taps former COVID Center leader as interim provost
    Lainie Rutkow, the university’s executive vice provost, will lead academics at Hopkins.
    Johns Hopkins University new provost Lainie Rutkow.
    Layoffs and confusion at Pride Center of Maryland after federal grants cut, reinstated
    Pride Center of Maryland is one of thousands of groups nationwide that reportedly received letters late Tuesday from the Trump administration notifying them that their mental health and addiction grants had been terminated, effective immediately.
    Merrick Moses, a violence prevention coordinator, works at the Pride Center of Maryland in Baltimore.
    Streeter: I was still masking before the flu season was bad
    I never stopped wearing a mask anywhere people were going to breathe on me, or where I could breathe on them.
    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.
    Measles case prompts exposure warning in Maryland on Amtrak, BWI shuttles
    Maryland health officials are investigating possible measles exposures after a person with a confirmed case traveled through the region on an Amtrak train.
    Vaccine Clinic staff prepare syringes during BCPS Fest held at New Town High School on August 16th, 2025 in Owings Mills, MD.
    Everything you need to know about getting your child vaccinated in Maryland
    Access and affordability are virtually unchanged.
    Reva Bounan, RN administers a vaccine injection to Ryan Lewis (11) during a Vaccine Clinic offered at BCPS Fest held at New Town High School on August 16th, 2025 in Owings Mills, MD.
    The Chesapeake Center shutters amid family feuding, debt and a privacy breach
    Dozens of clinicians and their patients are scrambling after the abrupt closure last week of The Chesapeake Center, a nationally known Bethesda-based practice specializing in ADHD with multiple locations in the region and Florida.
    The Chesapeake Center, a respected psychiatry clinic specializing on care for people with ADHD, closed abruptly on Jan. 2.
    House passes bill to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders
    In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., joined by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., speaks to reporters just after the House passed legislation that extends expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.
    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
    Yes, you can still get a flu shot: Tips for staying healthy with cases on the rise
    Maryland officials are urging all residents to get a flu shot as cases and hospitalizations have risen sharply nationwide.
    CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 12: An Influenza Vaccine is prepared for a patient at Doctor Gary M. Kramer, MD, PA's Pediatric office on September 12, 2025, in Coral Gables, Florida.
    County data warns of mental health declines amid government disruption
    Data, and conversations with those who work in the field, show that residents of Montgomery County are struggling mentally, and that demand for mental health services has increased.
    Flu season surged over the holidays and is likely to get worse
    U.S. flu infections surged over the holidays, and health officials are calling it a severe season that is likely to get worse.
    A pharmacist prepares to administer a dose of seasonal flu vaccine to a patient at a CVS Pharmacy in Miami, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025.
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