Health

The same drug that Jackie Ferguson had used to ease her mother’s pain had also taken her son Jaylon’s life.

The city was once hailed for its response to addiction. But as fentanyl flooded the streets and officials shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.

Nearly 6,000 people have died over the past six years — an unparalleled number among U.S. cities.

A key difference between the two candidates emerged on Thursday, with Hogan saying he’d support legal abortions up to 26 weeks of a pregnancy while Alsobrooks opposed a firm cutoff.

About 80% of Maryland’s nursing homes have not had annual inspections, and fewer than half of complaints have been investigated, the lawsuit alleges.

A class of students at UMD, would-be entrepreneurs, have been given an opportunity to compete for $2 million in private equity seed funding. All they have to do to win it? Come up with a way to help detect and prevent school shooters.

The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago.

The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore on Monday said the first public swim event in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in decades will be held on June 23. Registration for “Harbor Splash” begins next week.

Rethinking approaches to health care and adopting a new nursing initiative would help alleviate long emergency care wait times that put Marylanders at risk, leaders of health care and nursing programs at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State universities say.

Maryland must do more to address the educational, health and other urgent needs of migrant children, say a Johns Hopkins primary care pediatrician and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Demolition of Baltimore City Community College’s downtown Bard Building is scheduled for completion in early September.

A crush of court orders and the lack of psychiatric hospital bed space have led to a record-high waitlist for jail transfers.

The Maryland Emergency Medical Services System, which monitors hospitals across the state, placed St. Agnes in mini-disaster status, meaning new patients to the emergency room were rerouted to other hospitals.

Refunds are coming — as much as eight years after the first patients paid their bills.

Maryland voters also will be asked this year to enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution. The state already protects the right to abortion under state law and Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.

The boxes will have instructions on how to administer the medication and a QR code that can be scanned to learn more about opioid overdoses and nalaxone.

Urban planners have often favored male trees that make pollen over female trees that make seeds, contributing to the abundance of sneeze-inducing yellow stuff.

A West Baltimore neighborhood near Mondawmin Mall is trying to stop the opening of a clinic that administers methadone.

After the U.S. logged its first cases of malaria in decades, Johns Hopkins mosquito research takes on new urgency.

In the days and weeks after the Key Bridge collapse, therapists and grief workers who service Baltimore’s Spanish-speaking immigrant community say they have seen a significant increase in referrals and clients — many of whom were already struggling with trauma.