Health

The Howard County Office on Aging and Independence decided to end Rock Steady Boxing classes with little notice or reason. Then residents stepped in.

Baltimore City officials are warning residents about rabid foxes found in Roland Park.

Clover Hill Dairy issued a voluntary recall of its ricotta products over a possible listeria contamination.

The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday.

Since federal health officials removed the “black box” warning on hormone replacement therapy, doctors and women’s advocates have been cautiously optimistic it will mean better access to the menopause treatment generally for more women, especially Black women.

An older man died in Calvert County this month due to the heat, Maryland Department of Health officials said, the first heat-related death in the state this year.

DHS is mandating that flights from certain African countries be routed through Washington Dulles International Airport.

Health authorities say the current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, a rare variant of the Ebola disease that has no approved therapeutics or vaccines.

What it’s like inside a special biocontainment unit that Johns Hopkins Hospital is preparing for potential hantavirus patients.

Marty Makary, a former Johns Hopkins surgeon, is resigning as President Donald Trump’s head of the Food and Drug Administration.

Officials from the Maryland Department of Health say the residents briefly shared a plane with an infected cruise ship passenger.

A French woman and an American tested positive for the hantavirus, as nations around the world scrambled Monday to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak and quarantine or isolate them.

Women at the Baltimore teaching hospital say pharmacist Matthew Bathula secretly accessed intimate photos, emails and camera feeds from their online accounts.

At the Urban Farm Incubator, participants are working to increase access to fresh food for Prince Georgians and to teach young people about health and farming.

Spanish nationals were the first to leave the MV Hondius, which remains anchored off Tenerife.

Here is what to know about hantavirus, which has killed three people on a Dutch-flagged cruise ship.

Three passengers have died, one is in intensive care in a South African hospital, and three others were evacuated from the ship Wednesday. Another man who left the ship earlier in the voyage tested positive in Switzerland.

Utz Quality Foods issued the recall this week after learning a chip seasoning containing dry milk powder it uses for various Zapp’s and Dirty brand flavors might have been infected.

Testing sites across the harbor ranged from “poor” to “fair,” according to 2025 water-quality data published Wednesday by the nonprofit Blue Water Baltimore.

A Towson therapist is setting up a self-guided tour of Ladew Topiary Gardens part of a movement that uses nature to improve mental health.