Health

Red Shed Village’s eponymous structure burned down on Thanksgiving. The community of unhoused people who live around it, and the unusual church that supports them, is working to build back.

Earlier this year, Luigi Mangione disengaged. His mother filed a missing person report and friends pleaded with him to return their messages.

Despite being in pain, Luigi Mangione did not complain often and was apparently not on any pain medication, a friend said.

The city has submitted a 90-page abatement plan that includes proposals in three categories: harm reduction, opioid use disorder treatment, and prevention over 15 years.

State officials could set a threshold for when mold should be considered hazardous or mandate a time frame for remediation. But without more research, Maryland’s rules likely won’t go far enough.

Here are some frequently asked questions that could help determine when your mold problem is more than just a nuisance.

The Restitution Advisory Board will help guide the city as it spends the more than $650 million it won from pharmaceutical companies accused of inundating the Baltimore area with millions of legal opioid painkillers.

Legionella bacteria has been found in more government buildings in Baltimore, prompting officials to plan to flush and sanitize the water systems at two courthouses this weekend.

The bacteria Legionella can be hard to pinpoint and harder to eradicate.

State government officials are continuing to battle Legionella bacteria at the aging State Center office complex in Baltimore, sending workers home this week as they flush the water systems.

A study from the Johns Hopkins University reconfirms what residents have long suspected: The black dust in Curtis Bay comes from coal.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced he has nominated Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins University pancreatic surgeon and Fox News contributor, to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Hospitals are seeing an increasing number of homeless patients walking into emergency rooms. After they’re admitted, some refuse to leave. This is the story of a lawsuit Sinai Hospital filed against one such patient.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees health insurance programs for millions of older, poor and disabled Americans.

An Essex boardinghouse faces likely closure after a local zoning appeals board found that it hadn’t met the requirements to stay open despite being out of compliance with the zoning code.

The Maryland Department of Health has a new public health dashboard that shows data related to cannabis use, including emergency room visits and calls to poison control centers.

There’s been a sharp uptick in cases of walking pneumonia, especially among young children. Ask pediatricians about the spike during a free webinar on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at noon.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting him in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical research.

There’s another phase to the trial — and likely appeals — after Tuesday’s verdict. The city has laid out a plan to spend settlements over the next 15 years.

Two drug distributors, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, are liable for their role in Baltimore’s deadly opioid crisis, a civil jury found.