Health
Letter: Why should polluters profit while communities like Curtis Bay suffer?
A reader says the CSX coal terminal is a stark example of how powerful industries disproportionately affect underserved communities like Curtis Bay.
Listeria, again? This time it’s in mushrooms
Enoki mushrooms are the latest food potentially contaminated with listeria, which can cause a deadly infection.
These kids have never done drugs. They’re still being treated for addiction.
Opioids have devastated not just individuals in the rural Cecil County, but impacted children so heavily that officials are now treating addiction as a family affair.
Sen. Cheryl Kagan visited every 911 center in Maryland. Here’s what she learned.
State Sen. Cheryl Kagan spoke with The Baltimore Banner about her tour of every 911 call center in Maryland and the surprising things she learned along the way.
Maryland law closes a loophole in abortion care, attorney general says
Maryland is trying to eliminate an obscure rule that stopped Medicaid from paying for certain patients’ abortions.
Maryland hospitals face IV shortage as hurricanes hit suppliers
Flooding from Hurricane Helene halted production at the country’s leading manufacturer and triggered a national shortage.
Why few communities chose Baltimore’s high-risk, high-reward opioid legal strategy
Baltimore joined that exclusive group last month, launching a trial against the drug distributors McKesson and AmerisourceBergen that has been six years in the making.
Marylanders don’t have a ‘right to die.’ Those who live with pain want options.
Diane Kraus, after watching legislation stall for years in Maryland, found hope when the Delaware General Assembly passed legislation that would allow those with terminal illnesses to choose death with dignity. But then the governor vetoed the legislation.
Maryland becomes the first East Coast state to adopt worker heat protections
Maryland’s newly published and adopted heat standard, which goes into effect Monday, requires all workers to have access to water, shade and rest breaks when temperatures exceed 80 degrees.
Maryland is a safe haven for abortion care — with one obscure exception
Women who qualified for Medicaid because they are pregnant may have to foot the bill for an abortion.
It’s germ season. But getting flu and COVID boosters for babies may take patience.
Getting children flu and COVID vaccines this fall may take patience, as pharmacists can't vaccinate babies and pediatricians don't all have doses yet.
Boar’s Head faces legal scrutiny over deadly deli meat listeria outbreak, USDA says
Officials with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service refused to share documents regarding the agency’s inspections and enforcement at the Boar’s Head plant in Jarratt, Virginia, and inspection reports from eight other company factories across the U.S.
Baltimore could give birth control to rats, but there’s one big catch
The typical female brown rat has about five litters a year, with up to 12 “pups” a litter.
Maryland strikes deal with Kaiser Permanente to remain Medicaid provider
Last week, the MDH said it may have to drop Kaiser as a Medicaid managed care organization due to a breakdown in contract negotiations.
Baltimore-area opioid shipments were ‘egregious,’ ex-DEA witness testifies
“There’s no reasonable explanation that I can imagine that would explain this amount in a city the size of Baltimore,” a former DEA agent testified Tuesday.
Want one last swim this summer? Beaches reopen after medical waste washed ashore
Ocean City Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald said in a statement Friday evening that the water is safe for swimming and surfing.
How Baltimore, opioid firms plan to argue their case during trial
The opening arguments Wednesday set the stage for how the city and opioid companies will approach the planned eight-week civil trial.
A Hopkins doctor is using diabetes medicine to help Black women fight hair loss
A common drug used to treat diabetes may also help Black women with a type of alopecia, a Johns Hopkins scientist found.
Jury chosen in Baltimore trial challenging opioid companies
About 150 city residents sat through the tedious jury selection process, which probed their feelings on opioids, illegal street drugs and Baltimore government.
‘We are very familiar with death’: One man’s overdose exemplifies Baltimore’s crisis
A man’s death is one of 988 overdoses that exemplifies the cross section of ages, races, ethnicities and genders affected by Baltimore’s overdose crisis.
